Jen's Quilts

  Grandma and I both like many of the quilt patterns shown by Donna Jordan of Jordan Fabrics , and at the end of last year we decided we would each make the Lone Star quilt.  We both started in January, with grandma finishing a couple of months ago, while I finally finished the binding last night. The quilt is made from a jelly roll, by strip piecing and sub cutting into diamonds.  Sounded straightforward enough, but it turned out that figuring out the right amount of offset to get those 45 degree diamond shapes to line up when sewing them together was trickier than it looks.  I definitely ended up redoing some seams, and a couple more than once, trying to get the seams to line up.  Once the diamonds were together, the setting triangles were added for the background.  I really like the black background on this quilt, but sewing two pieces of black fabric together was required much more lighting than usual.   I decided to go off-pattern, and did a ...