Tuesday DJ: G-7, Indianapolis

Since abandoning the project in May, I have not made a single block on my Dear Jane. I'm going to try for one a week, because at least that's forward motion. So to launch back into it, I picked the one smack in the middle! This is G-7, Indianapolis.


There are 21 pieces in this block. I can't really do hand-applique anymore because of my tendonitis, so I turned the edges over on these quarter-circles and machine-appliqued them to the four white squares. I paper pieced the strips running through the middle, then squared up the whole she-bang and I was done! I'm thrilled to be back in the game.

For the perfectionists and Dear Jane purists among you, this block is not true to pattern. The small red rectangles outside the circle should have a curved edge, and I just straight pieced it. Why? Because that piece is about a 1/2" wide, and a wise woman named Brenda Papadakis said that FINISHED IS BETTER THAN PERFECT. So there.

Here's the tally:
31 blocks
2 triangles
0 kites
537 pieces