Starting the year off right, with a finish in 2013

After 14 years, my Jane Stickle quilt has come to a close.  She taught me quite a bit about sewing: hand applique, machine applique, paper piecing, you name it.  I think this quilt took me so long to do because I wasn't ready to attempt to master some of the techniques.  And let's face it, I still haven't mastered Y-seams especially.  This quilt is full of challenges.


While I have no plans for this quilt yet (too small for our bed, too large to hang on one of my walls), I am content with using it right now to sit under while watching tv or playing Candy Crush :)
A few pictures taken right after I finished:








Flowers in the basket:


And the back, I love seeing the backs with all the quilting:


If you'd like to see more pictures of various blocks and all of the triangles: Go to my flickr set here I wish I still had my other blog up so all the posts about my Jane quilt were together, hopefully someday soon I will be able to get those cleaned up and virus/spam free so I can post those. Though this quilt was a huge process for me, I am glad for the process. It stretched me and taught me. Towards the end with the quilting, I was really burnt out but I pushed through. With one day left in 2013, this project finally came to an end.

And to answer a question upfront, no, I will not make another EVEN THOUGH I have seen so many other Jane quilts in various fabrics that really sing to me. It's not happening. This chapter is closed.