Saturday 13 August 2016

Dear Jane Quilt - every show should have one

'A Sparkling Dear Jane' by Catherine Carlyon
'A Sparkling Dear Jane' by Catherine Carlyon
After two exhausting days at the 2016 Festival of Quilts it is time to get back to normality and that means back to focussing on Dear Jane. You can pretty much guarantee that any quilt show you attend there will be some Dear Jane love and this show was no different.

This first Dear Jane quilt is by my sister which she made using just four metallic Hoffman fabrics - all English paper pieced and hand quilted. You can see here that it attracted quite a bit of attention and rightly so. 

'Not a Patch on Jane' by Valerie Eames
'Not a Patch on Jane' by Valerie Eames
In the same Traditional category was this Civil War fabric Dear Jane by Valerie Eames, machine pieced and hand quilted.  It was great to have two near each other to see how each had approached each block, there are so many approaches you can make.

So two more Dear Jane quilts have been born - keep up the good work if you are still working on yours.

3 comments:

  1. You and your sister are amazing for both tackling this challenging quilt. Hers is gorgeous.

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  2. What an absolute beauty of a quilt by your sister and what a great idea to use just the four fabrics, I have never seen a Dear Jane quilt this way.

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  3. What talented siblings. To me all versions of this quilt are magnificent.

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