Dear Jane Journey--It's Official--I Hate 'Quilt Jail'!

It's official. I hate the Dear Jane block called E9 Quilt Jail.  And I have good reason!  It took me an hour to make each of the failed attempts below.  I admit it--I'm a lazy quilter and I've been hopping all over the patterns, doing the easiest ones first. And this one was not the easiest!  But I persevered, and at the 5th attempt I decided it was good freaking enough!  But if you read all the way down you can see my reward. And a darned good reward it was, too.

 Attempt #1.  Hey--even I, a Dark Night Quilter, can't say this one is good.

Attempt #2.  Better-ish.  But the bars are way off!

Attempt #3.  Nothing good could be said about this one.

Attempt #4. I would have taken this one--but it's too small!

Attempt #5.  We are renaming this one to 'Good Enough'. 

It's actually more square than it looks.

And my reward?  This block, E7 Star Struck,  was done in 35 minutes.  

And I didn't even crop off my points.  

I love this block. This block kicks Quilt Jail's ass!  Take that, Quilt Jail!