I have been thinking about how color placement might dictate how scrappy the quilt might turn out.
What do you suppose my quilt would have looked like had I taken all the color families and kept them together in the first operation of sewing strips together, end to end?
I have all of the Nicki and Pam Lintott Jelly Roll books and one of the things I noticed what they separate the jelly rolls into either color families or lights and darks before cutting.
What would my quilt look like if I took a jelly roll and starting with the darkest or lightest and then moving up the color wheel, so to speak, so that all the darks are on one end and the lights on the other?
one tip: I probably would have had a straighter edge on one side of my quilt if I had gone ahead and stitched the length clear to the end, and then used a ruler and rotary cutter to cut the steps in half at that time. As it is, one of my edges is relatively straight, while the other side has a definite bow in it.
And, while I was thinking about squaring up that bowed edge, I realized ... if I took and stitched the whole thing into a tube, I could then cut varying widths and maybe have an attractive bargello of sorts. Keeping in mind that each cut will lessen the width by half an inch, it might just be "cutting off my nose to spite my face" ... however, it would definitely look more scrappy.
oh, the possibilities.
I sure appreciate the generosity of those who share their pattern ideas. <wave>