My baby Jane - I5 Maria’s Majesty

Been a little while - good to do one more 

My baby Jane - B-1 Batcherlor Buttons

Not perfect, but in the end I was happy with the result.
Difficult to get perfect circles.

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 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 Block A-10 Which Points West

Once again a mix of reverse and normal appliqué.

I started by making the centre using reverse appliqué. I cut a slightly larger square of both fabric and then after doing the appliqué I trimmed it to the exact size 

Then to get dual effect with mitred corners I first added a triangle to each corner, and using a 45 degree angle I lined where to pierce in the corner

Then I trimmed

And then repeated this time I used a slightly wider strips and sewed them on each side avoiding the 1/4 inch seam distance at the corners 

Then mitred the corners the same way

I could the appliqué the 4 cones

And the block could now be trimmed

Dear Jane block G-7 Indianapolis

This was a real challenge, reverse appliqué for centre

Then after this applies the cross with appliqué - had to mark the centre and carefully check length of cross arms to get the contrast to hit the edge. The two other arms have their ends hidden under the long arm