Quick Jelly Roll Strip Quilting The Jelly Roll Race You
Quick Jelly Roll Strip Quilting The Jelly Roll Race
You can cut ¾ inch strips or small blocks or use Jelly Roll 2 ½ inch strips for a whole quilt or any sized strips you want. Very easy, quick way to get a quilt top finished. Using a manufacturer’s jelly roll ensure that there are several fabrics all coordinating, but you can choose a group of fabrics that look good together and cut your own. I used up bits of fabric from various baby quilt projects in this demonstration. Open Jelly Roll or cut 40 WOF (width of fabric) strips of coordinating fabric. Mix up color randomly.
Attach fabric strips end to end with a diagonal joining.
Separate if you chained the seams and trim the triangle off.
Be careful to leave a ¼ inch seam allowance.
Press open the seams.
Cut ¼ to ½ of the first fabric piece off of the long strip and set aside.
Line up the ends of the subsequent very long strip (about 45 yards) and sew them (right sides together) along one very long edge.
Just before the end, cut strip in half and sew the remaining length of strip. Press open.
Now you have a half as long strip (approximately 22 yards) made up of two rows.
Repeat by lining up the ends and sew them (right sides together) along one very long edge. Press open. Your strip is now about just under 12 yards long and has 4 rows.
Repeat these steps three more times. Your quilt will have 32 rows, 2 inches each and be about 50 inches wide. You may now choose to add a border or not. Fastest way to piece a quilt top I know!
You can cut ¾ inch strips or small blocks or use Jelly Roll 2 ½ inch strips for a whole quilt or any sized strips you want. Very easy, quick way to get a quilt top finished. Using a manufacturer’s jelly roll ensure that there are several fabrics all coordinating, but you can choose a group of fabrics that look good together and cut your own. I used up bits of fabric from various baby quilt projects in this demonstration. Open Jelly Roll or cut 40 WOF (width of fabric) strips of coordinating fabric. Mix up color randomly.
Attach fabric strips end to end with a diagonal joining.
Separate if you chained the seams and trim the triangle off.
Be careful to leave a ¼ inch seam allowance.
Press open the seams.
Cut ¼ to ½ of the first fabric piece off of the long strip and set aside.
Line up the ends of the subsequent very long strip (about 45 yards) and sew them (right sides together) along one very long edge.
Just before the end, cut strip in half and sew the remaining length of strip. Press open.
Now you have a half as long strip (approximately 22 yards) made up of two rows.
Repeat by lining up the ends and sew them (right sides together) along one very long edge. Press open. Your strip is now about just under 12 yards long and has 4 rows.
Repeat these steps three more times. Your quilt will have 32 rows, 2 inches each and be about 50 inches wide. You may now choose to add a border or not. Fastest way to piece a quilt top I know!
