Last month at Possum Town Quilters sit and sew meeting we had a Jelly Roll Race. Terri (another member) presented some options if you did not want to do the typical Jelly Roll race quilt. She showed how to do the 3 dudes quilting pattern that Jenny Doan did on a Missouri Star quilt tutorial. You can link to that here.
My son had wanted a quilt to use as a spread in his guest room. So I had been on the lookout for a pattern that would make up pretty quickly as it did not have a spread at all. We had discussed using the colors in an area rug he had in the guest room. The room is painted blue.
I did not want to make the original Jelly Roll Quilt as I had made two of those already. Since I had made the JJ Knox quilt and had gotten a lot of good feedback decided that would be a good direction to go. So in order to make it big enough for a queen sized bed, I figured out I would need two jelly rolls. I was using the Artisan Batiks - Prisma Dye Neutral Nuance Roll Up by Lunn Studio for Robert Kaufman. After I had those in my home, I decided that I should add a few red strips and add enough of the black/blue so that each set of 5 would have a black strips in it. So I ordered the extra fabric and two charm square packs to use in the border. I was also planning to use the black/blue in the border.
I cut each strip in half and pinned them in groups of five so there would be a good bit of variety in the blocks. At the sit and sew I got about half the blocks done. I finished them over the next few days.
There were lots of pretty quilt tops made that day. Check out what you can make with a Jelly Roll and you can produce a quilt top quickly!
Since I had the day off Monday and had the borders on by about noon, I decided to take it to Betty Lewis to quilt. That way I could still get back home to verify grades for the end of the 1st 9 weeks for school. I was nervous about doing such a large quilt on my new machine. It is about 103" x 103"! So I decided I will try that out on my next quilt.
Sew on!
Terry
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