ForestJane Designs
Saturday, May 26, 2007

Heartstrings quilts and tops

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Here's what's quilty lately, three more heartstrings quilts (wheelchair sized) from the blocks made by my guild. First, a square to...
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Sunday, May 20, 2007

My New Computer

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Well, I finally upgraded from my old faithful win98 with dialup to a new Vista hp computer and cable. Cable IS faster, but I'm not sur...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Siamese Quilt

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I've been asked if I have ever made a siamese quilt - yup, I've made two, both wall hanging size. Here's the first: I made this...
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Thursday, May 03, 2007

Birdwatching Toby

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Toby never is allowed outside, but I'm sure he's thinking that if this screen weren't in the way, he could have a drumstick for ...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Flowers Blooming

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Beautiful Spring weather for flower growing we've had so far this week in Memphis ... tomorrow it's supposed to rain, and for the re...
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Border Fabric Bought

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Well, I couldn't find the exact Hoffman butterfly fabric I wanted, although I really appreciated all the people who helped me look! I d...
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Friday, April 20, 2007

More Fabric info

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I went and looked on the Hoffman Challenge site, and saw all their challenge fabrics since 1988, and my butterflies in deep purple/pink/blue...
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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Looking for Fabric

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Maybe you folks out there all around the world can help me find these: I have enough for the center of the quilt, but I'd LOVE to have a...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Double Star with borders

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Well, here it is: I used Dawn's suggestion and added two wide strips of the blue on the outside of the string stripes, then went around...
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Monday, April 16, 2007

Double Star

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Yet another Heartstrings quilt top... this one again from the blocks people in my guild made for block of the month. I picked all the brigh...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Need a quilt name

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Here's what I've been working on lately. I took it to the library this morning and laid out a 4 x 6 set of blocks so I could see ho...
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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Uses of a Pizza Box

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Like many of you, I like using pizza boxes (clean, unused) for sorting/storing my projects in progress. Here's the palette for my next ...
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Monday, March 26, 2007

Busy, busy busy

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I haven't posted in so long, but here goes with the news from my life: Had a Family Activity Night at my library, featuring Australia, a...
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Monday, March 12, 2007

Another Heartstrings Quilt Top

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Here's yet another Heartstrings quilt top made from the blocks my guild did for their block of the month: This one's just a tad over...
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

It's Daffodils!

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Well, for all of you in snowy parts of the country, with below freezing temperatures, here's a few pictures of MY front yard to give you...
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Monday, March 05, 2007

First 24 Blocks Used

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Well, I pulled out twenty-four of the heartstrings blocks my guild made for Feb. block of the month. I was looking for the darker red cente...
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Friday, March 02, 2007

More Heartstrings Designs

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They were talking about the busy-ness of the heartstrings blocks over on the Heartstrings Yahoo group pages, and someone mentioned that you ...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Heartstrings block of the month project

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Well, my guild had their once a month meeting tonight, and the block of the month for February was a red-centered heartstrings block. Here...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Still Quilting

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*blushes* Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but sometimes life just gets in the way. :) I have still been working on quilts, just noth...
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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Depression Blocks Done

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Well, I've got my 36 depression blocks sewn now. Here's a layout of 25 of them on the big library tables at work. (I've made 36...
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ForestJane
Quilting and entertaining two Siamese cats are my hobbies. I'm a full time librarian and part time copyeditor and proofreader. I love to read.

You haven't done too much quilting until you can thread the needle while your machine is running.
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