Playing with Dear Jane in EQ

Have you tried the Dear Jane EQ add-on from Electric quilt yet?

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So I’ve had a bit of time to look around at the Dear Jane blocks, so many cool ones!

Of course, since I work with Accuquilt, I quickly spied some AQ friendly blocks- most are not, but that’s ok 😉

The first “interesting” one I saw was A-2 (from the block placement in the layout) it’s named One two buckle my shoe

instead of adding more things and layouts to this Dear Jane file, I started a new quilt and named it One two buckle my shoe and imported the block from the dear Jane file

Libraries/block libray then import and find the file called Dear Jane and then find the block in the library and add to sketchbook.

here you can see I added it and there’s just the standard blocks and this new block in the library now

You can tell it’s based off of a 3×3 grid or a 6×6 grid, so with QUBE sets, the smallest is 6″ and that’s based off of a 2×2 or 4×4 grid.

I know that shape #8 is a rectangle that finished 1 1/2″ x 3″, so that matches the white rectangles in the block which means that block is 9″

Here I made a 4×4 layout with 9″ blocks, I rotated every other block also

Since there’s flying geese in the block, why not add some flying geese on the border? I just searched for flying geese in the block library and added them to a 3″ border made with 12 blocks on each side, then rotated them also.