Jen's Quilts

I can see from here it has been ages since I completed a quilt.  Silly me decided to do a 'block of the day' quilt, so I have been doing A LOT.  I started on 1 January, and will finish on 31 December.  At one point I was almost a month behind schedule, but most times I am somewhat up-to-date or perhaps just a few days behind.  But it means I haven't had much time for other quilts - the exception being a granny square style quilt I am doing as a leader / ender, and this one, a scrappy trip around the world based on a Bonnie Hunter pattern .   I am not sure why now, but I decided to collect fat quarters in an autumn-ish theme for this quilt.  It took a while to find just the right fat quarters, as I figured I'd need 20 to do a 64" x 80" quilt.  And unlike Bonnie Hunter's pattern, I also decided to cut the fat quarters slightly differently so that I'd end up with eight 2.5" strips from every fat quarter, of at least 20" each.  This did require s...

  At the beginning of 2025 I decided I wanted to make the Jagged X's pattern that I had seen Donna Jordan make ages ago.  I had a batik jelly roll I think I got for my birthday one year and thought the colours would be really nice in a quilt like this. After finding a nice grey on white batik for the background, I cut out all the required pieces and then spent a long time drawing the diagonal sewing line on the back of the background fabric.  Once this was eventually finished, I sewed and ironed and trimmed all the rectangular pieces, before turning pairs into the square sub-unit, and joining four sub-units to make the larger square "X".  I don't remember how long it took to do this all, but it was probably a few months in between work and everything.  However, once I had the centre together, and some very long strips of squares for the borders, it all got packed up and put to the side.  I had already decided to do the borders in red, but it took me foreve...