My Dear Jane Quilt

The day I've anxiously awaited for has arrived.   Today is the Dear Jane quilt class taught by Joan Alliston.   I've spent weeks googling around, buying various Dear Jane products including the Dear Jane CD and book and rulers and deciding on what fabrics to use.  I'm all packed up, woke up at 4 am, and ready to drive to Brandon for the class.   There is a Dear Jane journal on the DJ CD but it only allows me to print the pages rather than use them online and type on them and save them.   Time to get with the times, Brenda P!  I think that I am going to use bright, jewel tone fabrics, some Laurel Burch ones with a black background on my quilt.  I made a sample block last night and it wasn't too hard but may be the easiest pattern in the quilt!

My Orca Bay Quilt

After a usual Carol start--only skimming the directions, cut out a bunch of blocks, measured one and realized it was too small and that I was using the new ruler incorrectly, fixed this, cut out about 50 more and made them, came back and looked back at the instructions only to realize that I wasn't even making an hourglass block.   But, I started over and now I have about 3/4 of the half square triangles made and one hourglass unit put together.   Progress is progress!   Scrounging for scraps--okay, I cheated and have bought some fabric.   Having been quilting long enough to have adequate scraps to suit my matchy, matchy personality.  http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2011/11/mystery-monday-link-up.html