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Needing some tips about Dear Jane
Tutu Haynes-Smart wrote:
snip I scraped by with a fat 1/8th (or a tad less at times) for a block AND a plain triangle and a pieced triangle. In my first DJ, I repeated quite a few fabrics, but the second only about six duplicates. (Make a spreadsheet or something to track your fabrics. I had little squares stuck on a paper replica). Certainly, if you are careful, a charm square could do you. I did use (very cheap) muslin for the background. Good was that it was cheap so that it didn't really matter how much I used. Bad was that it was a bear for the small applique, so be warned on that. Also be aware that if you are doing a lot of paper piecing, you tend (however miserly you are, to use a bit more fabric). I used 6m of 150cm wide - and that gave me quite a bit of wriggle room. That did NOT include the sashings. I got The Book and then redrafted each one in EQ4 (that dates me, doesn't it). Now things are a lot easier with EQ's DJ software (you'll see my quilts in there and some of my tips too). I would seriously recommend purchasing the software unless you are going to hand piece everything using freezer paper or some other precise method. And finally, good luck and enjoy the journey. Shout if you have specific problems - there's a number of people here who can help. Thanks for that, Tutu! I'm thinking of using coloured backgrounds to tone with my prints. Dunno yet... Gee, I wish my friend could come over for a day or two so we could do all our planning together! We make a good team, each seeing things the other usually misses. I usually draft my blocks in CorelDraw, only it's not working on my machine at the moment (Hnnnnh!!!) I'd love to see the DJ software at work, but for now it's beyond the budget. Trisha (my friend) and I have used light sew-in interfacing in the past (for paper piecing, that is). You can leave it in the quilt and it adds a bit of 'oomph' if that's what you're after. We'll no doubt do quite a bit of experimenting before we start, though. Trisha is a dedicated machine piecer while I rather enjoy hand-work and appliqué. The help I've had from rctqers already is what allowed me to make the final decision and go ahead with my JASQ. Thanks to you and everyone who has emailed! ;-D -- Trish Brown {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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