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Whew – I have never done so many Dear Jane blocks in one season and it’s amazing how much I’m learning by pushing myself to figure them out, one after another.  They’re like little puzzles, and much more satisfying than sudoku or anagrams.  However, I’m still tiptoeing around the ones that require hand-piecing.  Does anyone have a magic potion to make me fall in love with hand-piecing?  If I can find a way to applique or paper-piece a block, I always take that route — although C-7 nearly did me in.

Thanks so much to Mary Cargill for another four exquisite blocks!  A-3, A-8, B-2, and B-3.

Looking forward to next week:  I’ll bring all the blocks I have to Monday’s evening class this month, and the Friday classes if I can swing it.

I’m also updating the Finished & Pending  and Quilt Layout pages tonight, so you can see how much we have done!!

Driving round-trip to Rochester and then over to Boston to drop kids at the camp bus and airport left little time for posting, so here are the last week’s additions – now that I have time to breathe again.  Have two more almost done, but it’s raining like crazy here at the lake, so I can’t photograph and our fireworks will probably be rained out.  On the bright side, that leaves more time to sew!!

Here are this week’s blocks:  B-4, C-1, D-13, G-3, and J-10!  Thank you so much, Deana and Diane!

Thanks to everyone who’s emailed me with which block(s) they would like to do.  I’ve posted all the information to the Blocks Finished & Pending page (see Header tabs).   I’m still aiming to get the blocks done by end of July, so as to have August for assembly and September/October for quilting.

The past two weeks have been insanely busy, so I’m looking forward to my Dear Jane class on Friday when I’ll have time to do a new block!