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Old 02-24-2015, 01:02 PM
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I made the mistake of subscribing to the Missouri Quilt Company deal of the day and really love these colors:
https://www.missouriquiltco.com/shop/dailydeal

It doesn't say how much fabric is in the jelly roll. I have never used a jelly roll before and didn't know what I would do with one.

Then I saw this pattern and I'm wondering if one jelly roll would make it? Is anyone familiar with what you get from MQC?

http://www.unitednotions.com/fp_cros...e-quarters.pdf
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A jelly roll is 2 1/2 strips, and they usually either have 40 or 42 WOF strips, or about 3 yards.
Your pattern calls for 1 1/2 strips, so you'd have an extreme amount of waste, plus, you get one or two strips of each fabric in a collection in a jelly roll, so even if you made that quilt, you wouldn't be able to get the coloration that is in the pattern. (It's a nice pattern, go for yardage for it.
If you search for jelly roll patterns, you should find many options, a 1600 quilt is a very easy pattern for a jelly roll. I also like to look on Moda Bakeshop for precut patterns.
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Hi,
I think the ones you bought have 40 (forty) 2.5" strips. The strips are the wof, usually 42-44"..

As far as how much that is in yardage, the MQC website says 2.77 yards for a 40 strip jelly, and 2.9 for a 42 strip jelly.

There are lots of free patterns for jelly roll quilts. Do a Google search, search here on QB,
etc.

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-...th+jelly+rolls

On the pattern you posted, since it's 1.5" strips, I think you'd be better to get a honeybun. They are like jelly rolls, only the strips are 1.5".

By the way, the jelly roll you bought has beautiful colors!
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I would just redraw the pattern since the pattern calls for cutting 1.5" wide strips and jelly rolls are 2.5" wide.
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Well I think your question has been answered. There are many wonderful Jelly Roll patterns. AND you made me buy that - I haven't been looking at their emails but I love Stonehenge fabric
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I buy 95% of pre cuts from Missouri Star. They are name brand and excellent quality. I use jelly rolls for sashing, borders, bindings, string piecing, strata blocks, the list is long. The last couple of years I sarted buying pre cuts more then yardage.
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Well, I planned to just make it with 2.5" strips instead, but could not find the information about how long the strips are in that jelly roll. I didn't buy it yet, as I wanted to figure out if I could use it for the pattern I like, and if I need to buy more than one, etc.
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Hi,
I think the ones you bought have 40 (forty) 2.5" strips. The strips are the wof, usually 42-44"..

As far as how much that is in yardage, the MQC website says 2.77 yards for a 40 strip jelly, and 2.9 for a 42 strip jelly.

There are lots of free patterns for jelly roll quilts. Do a Google search, search here on QB,
etc.

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-...th+jelly+rolls

On the pattern you posted, since it's 1.5" strips, I think you'd be better to get a honeybun. They are like jelly rolls, only the strips are 1.5".

By the way, the jelly roll you bought has beautiful colors!
Regards,
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Well, I planned to just make it with 2.5" strips instead, but could not find the information about how long the strips are in that jelly roll.
That info is kind of buried down in the post. It's listed right above the photo of the OSU quilt.

"Each Stonehenge Opal 2.5" Strips contains 40 2.5" x 44" strips of fabric. Each print is duplicated."
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Those daily deals can be a real deal - or they can lead me right down a path...

Missouri Star has scads of free patterns using precuts; you can watch tutorials for many of them on youtube. They also have a TON of other useful information. Here's basic info on precuts: http://blog.missouriquiltco.com/?s=standardization

Here's what you need from various precuts to achieve different quilt sizes. As you will see, one precut can get you a twin-sized quilt - depending on the pattern, of course. http://blog.missouriquiltco.com/what-can-a-precut-make/

I've made a queen size from 2 jelly rolls with very, very little left. Another good source for free patterns using precuts is moda's bake shop; you can search for patterns by whatever precut you have.
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That's a pretty pattern, I like it.

Since the pattern calls for 1 1/2" strips, I'm not sure that a jelly roll would be your best best. You will be tossing 1" off each strip, unless you save for another project.

If you do use a jelly roll, I am sure it would take 2 or 3 to make this pattern. Unless you use 2 1/2" strips instead.
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