The “Americana Quilt” series began in 2020 as a response to the Black Lives Matter protests as the Covid-19 pandemic spread. While investigating the role of American women in Civil Rights, Anti-Slavery, and Suffrage movements, Jestrow discovered quilts were used to further these causes through storytelling, education, record-keeping, fundraising, and display as protest banners. Quilts have become record-keeping documents incorporating cultural influences and changes in time.

Considering the traditions of quilters, Jestrow utilizes scraps from clothing, combined with new fabrics. Textiles include corduroy, men's shirting fabric, neopine, denim, and smooth cotton. Alongside these textiles, are fabrics Jestrow dyes with natural ingredients from around her home studio. She combines rust from oxidizing nuts, bolts, and screws saved from an old family barn, with plant materials from her kitchen and garden to create a range of lightfast colors. The resulting colors of the “Americana Quilts” reflect the varied flesh tones representative of the American population and our combined histories. Alongside the skin tones are the colors and textures of the American landscape. Various textures are created employing traditional Shibori and tie-dyeing techniques.

Jestrow reimagines and manipulates historical quilt patterns by applying improvisation, creating a free-flowing movement with their geometry. Each quilt incorporates a mix of different cultural traditions. Some of the geometric patterns originate from Native American weavings, Amish quilts, and African American narrative quilt traditions.