Piles and Piles of Pattern Piece Pages
So... I was at my Dear Jane bee yesterday and what do I find sitting on the table tucked behind the lemonade, leaning against the wall all unobtrusivelike? A humble paper bag stuffed with a big old pile of paper, the word "Free" scrawled across it in black magic sharpie. I hesitantly peek inside and lo and behold?? Can we all join hands, rock back and forth and say... JACKPOT?? piles and packets and parcels of pre-printed Dear Jane pattern piece pages... ppppppppppppppp As if that wasn't great enough, many of them were printed on what appears to be Carol Doak foundation paper. : ) yeee haw! I double checked with the hostess and sure enough, she said they were cast-offs from a previous incarnation of a Dear Janer group and we were free to take and use. Once I culled through it, it turned out there were about 100 patterns - just about half of the 225 needed for this project... about $10 worth of specialty paper, about $10 in ink (I swear, that friggin ink!) and of course HOURS of labor. Boy, was I happy. It was like Christmas for a quilter! : ) |
| the loot! |
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| the pile included three complete sides of triangles for a total of 39 block patterns... here I am referencing my triangle directory (sorted by side) |
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| I highlighted the triangles I got printed patterns for in this windfall... Since I had already printed some of the top row, it looks like I just have about 5 or 6 to print and I'm done with triangles. |
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| This is my view inserting each pattern into a page protector (see the new, giant box of 200 back there?) After a year of working on this quilt I am almost done with prep. Oh, ok - I still have to cut out all of these friggin patterns... : ) |
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| ...and the final prep stage - the cut pattern pieces ready to go... |
