The Jelly Roll Battle
 

I love jelly rolls. I love looking at their colors still bound in that cute circle, tied with that perfect knot. I know that once I open it, it will never roll back up the same. I so much want to feel that fabric, lay out all the strips and let them talk to me of what they wish to be but I battle the esthetic in me who so very much loves that precise, innocent roll with all those delicious fabrics peeking out. It's a battle I must wage within myself but battle on I must! :p

I can relate to a degree, sometimes I think I like looking at my fabric stash more than using it! Always afraid I'll use something and then come across something to use it for that would have been better.

Buy two. Use one and keep one to look at. :D

I can relate -- this is why I buy several yards of my filler fabrics and why some of my focus fabrics have not been cut. I have a favorite royal blue and a true red that I have used in several quilts -- the more I use them the more I like them. I only have scraps left and have projects in mind that need a lot more of each of the colors. Very frustrating.

I haven't used Jelly rolls that much because the excessive cost and many post on this site about how crooked the strips are. I do have my favorite fabrics that I use sparingly which are mostly Hoffman watercolors from the 90s.

I love jellyrolls. I buy them as much for decoration and inspiration for my sewing room as to use them. The last several years I buy more pre cuts then yardage. I'm partial to layer cakes. I have baskets full of layer cakes, many with jelly rolls to match. I look at them and get motivated. No wonder why quilt shops have them sitting so prettily all around the shop. They are sure hard to resist.
:)

They certainly are eye candy. I've been able to resist so far but I visit collections at the LQS often!

Those tidy little bundles are just so irresistible. I can totally relate to your issue of not wanting to disturb such an attractive package of fabric. Maybe if you can convince yourself that another just as wonderful or maybe more so will find its way to replace the opened or used fabric.

Guilty. Sometimes I'll buy a jelly roll AND a matching layer cake just to have them.

I have three rolls of batiks...I can't unroll them. I keep telling myself they'd be prettier in a quilt, but still...they sit.