Dear Jane, block B-8, Water Lily

Completed the appliqué on this one travelling from Glasgow to London.

Made the rookie mistake of first turning the star 45 degree wrong

Had to unpick all and do it again - lesson always double check layout 

Dear Jane, Block A-7, Dad's Plaids

Loving this red and white

First I pierced the block then marked the 4 melons 

And then appliquéd the 4 melons on 

Hey presto 

Dear Jane, Block B-11, Melissa's cross

First did centre using foundation paper piecing then appliquéd the little curves to the side triangles edge and then pieced them to the centre

Dear Jane, Block B-9, Tinker Toy

Dear Jane, block B-12, starflower

Using reverse appliqué.i did find the centre a bit hard to keep the shape. 

Dear Jane, Block B-10 Jud's Trophy

Had a few problems with the tiny foundation paper piecing which I used for the centre- think my machine needed s new needle

Dear Jane, Block C-11

This is done using reverse appliqué for the centre circle then normal hand appliqué for the corner circles and then piecing the border in at the end

I first looked for a good image for the centre

Used freeze paper for the corners, slightly larger than I would require as my background was larger to ensure block size inthe end ok after appliqué

Dear Jane, block A-1

I used the technique for pinwheels

To create the 8 sets of triangles

Dear Jane, block C5, eye of the cyclone

Cut 4 blocks 4x4 inch

And piece together face to face two and two patches with 1/4" Sean all around

Cut each into 4 triangles 

Dear Jane, Block B-3, Mirror Image

Cut out 4 background squares and 4 pattern squares 3 1/4 inch make up two blocks

Draw circle on freeze paper 

Iron freeze paper to top block

Cut out centre and then reverse appliqué 

Dear Jane, Block B2 Sweet Tater Pie

This is created by making two blocks of pin wheels

4.5 inch squares face to face and stitch all around 1/4 inch seam

Cut each square into 4 triangles

Press to squares

Layout the two pin wheels, reversing the colours so two different wheels

Piece the two blocks

Then on freeze paper draw out the circle

Iron onto the back of the pinwheel to go on top

Cut out the inner citcle (1/4 inch from the final circle

Cut little intention into the actual circle line all the way around

Press behind to form a nice circle

Pin and appliqué to other pinwheel block 

Dear Jane, Trianglen RS3, Epicenter

Loads of appliqué with appliqué on appliqué

I cut the background triangle larger than pattern.pueced the centre triangle to the background

Then added the two sides and top

You can see the excess I have allowed here 

Then I drew the outline for the appliqué 

Ten appliquéd the centre diamonds first

Then the melons around the centre

And finally the 3 bottom diamonds

Then I trimmed the entire triangle to the dear  jane triangle