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I have a Winter Wonderland JR & would like to do a Race Quilt. There are 2 strips of each fabric, 22 cream & 18 red. I know normally you just go with sewing each strips as it is on the roll but that would leave me with a lot of fabrics together. I'm thinking of 2 20 pc rolls & mixing red, cream ,red, cream. Do you think this would give me a better mix? Straight off the roll all red are together & then all creams. Thanks for any help with my brain freeze.
I say do it! Quilt police won't come from the ceiling if they find out you alternated a jelly roll race pattern instead of zipped off the roll.show us how it turns out
I would test what you want to do by laying out a few rows using the jelly roll strips and see if it pleasing to you.
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I didn't realize that the rule of thumb was to use the strips as they come off the roll. It's your quilt...make it however you want to!
The nature of the JRR quilt is that you don't know what you will get until it's done. I suppose it might be possible to figure out at least roughly which fabrics will be adjacent to each other, but it boggles the mind. The beauty of using a jelly roll is that all the fabrics go together, so that means the final product should be pleasing. I think your plan of alternating strips is a good one, but you may still wind up with a lot of reds against reds and whites against whites, and I think that's okay.
The first class I took for the JRR the instructor had us divide the strips into light, medium and dark then alternate strips as you joined them. It did distribute them all.
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I did end up with groups of red & white but I just couldn't sew all the reds together then the whites. As I was sewing I thought I made a mistake but once I laid it out I quilted it I like it. Here's a pic.Will be binding in red with white dots as I can't find the R/W stripe I know I have somewhere.
Last edited by ctrysass2012; 09-13-2015 at 06:24 PM.
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