Jelly Roll Lone Star Quilt A Long (Free) - Part 1 - Supplies

 Hello,

My husband told me, "You need to start quilting again." 

He may regret that...I went fabric shopping!!!  Haha!!!!

 And the same day, my mom sent me a text message about how she thinks I should start quilting again and reopen my quilting business.

So...I'm going to give it a go!

I have decided to do only custom quilting services - NOT edge to edge.  Yes, it costs 2.5 as much because it takes more than twice as long.  I don't want to compete with the edge-to-edge services in the area.  There are many that do a good job and I don't feel that is my niche or talent.  It's just not my place in the market.  If you need me to refer you to someone, I can.

My next quilt a long will be my version of the Jelly Roll Lone Star Quilt.

For this project, you will need 2 1/2 yard of fabric for the sashing, 2 1/2 yards of fabric for the white background and 2 jelly rolls of 20 + strips that measure 2 1/2 inches wide.  I chose some gray fabrics from JoAnn's.

In the past, I have had blog fabric sponsors.  Yes, I like getting free fabric, but every time my quilt pattern was chosen for publication, either by a magazine or web publishing, a fabric company sponsored my quilt.  Often, I felt like the quilt was becoming too exclusive.  I felt like the companies were pushing my quilts to be used with only this or that brand of fabric and I found that my readers were hunting high and low to find that exact fabric.  It all felt unnecessary.  I design my quilts to work in many colorways, not fabric or designer specific.  You can use scraps or stuff from Walmart.  Of course, the better-quality fabric, the more heirloom your quilt will be, but I have quilts made from leftovers from my grandmothers.  If you take care of them, it shouldn't matter what name-brand was on the fabric.

CITATIONS AND REFERENCES.

Jellied Lone Star Quilt | modafabrics.com

My version of this quilt is originally from the "Jellied Lone Star Quilt," by TerriAnn of "Childlike Fascination.com" tutorial on the Moda fabrics blog.  (Link above) I am grateful that my patterns have been published by them in the past. 

This is a great tutorial, but knowing me...I have to do it MY WAY.

 In reading through this original tutorial, the finished quilt was only 59 inches wide.  That's just a wall hanging or a kinda-throw.  It's a weird size.  (Sorry, this is just me thinking...) The center Lonestar only ends up to be about 45 inches - a wall hanging or a baby blanket.  There are also a lot of strips leftover if you purchase a Moda 42- piece Jelly Roll.

WHY CAN'T I MAKE IT FULL SIZE?

So...I did.

My variation of this project ends up to be 80 inches square -a nice full size quilt or queen size quilt.  The real trick was using up the extra jelly roll pieces and re-calculating the setting squares and triangles to be large enough for a larger setting.

And here are some photos of some recent projects.