Showing posts with label Jelly Roll 500. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jelly Roll 500. Show all posts

Monday, July 25, 2011

A Quick Quilt Top

Wow, this went together quickly!  Four strips became a set of 8.  8 strips became a set of 16.  And finally 16 strips became a quilt that has 32 strips.  This quilt top is 70" by 80".  Because I was working with scraps from my stash, I had no idea what size top these strips would finish into.  And the irony?  This top is bigger than the backing fabric, which is what started this particular group of fabrics.

Do I love this?  No.  But I don't hate it either.  Once the back is pieced, this quilt will be a great charity quilt.  It's cheery and definitely colorful.    But I do love this technique.  I am eager to try this again, using a much different set of fabrics.  And this technique will be great at our next quilting retreat in creating some charity projects.

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Jelly Roll 500

My quilter friend Rachel is very clever. Because of her I am involved with The Chicago Modern Quilt Guild and am listening to quilting podcasts. At our last meeting she brought in a "Jelly Roll" quilt top. The technique is the Jelly Roll Race Quilt. I started with 3" strips and joined them together like this:
The result was one extremely long piece. Then with right sides together, I began with the two ends of this long strip and sewed them together.
My set is now 4 strips wide. I'm done for the day. I can't wait to get back to this tomorrow.