Originally Posted by Woodster
I was at my favorite quilt shop this morning for a free class, and looked at the jelly rolls. I'm going to take my daughter back so she can pick one out, as it will be for her room. I can't WAIT!!! Yours looks fabulous!
Thank you. The floral one (the second one I made had I don't know, maybe five color families with a variety of textures and print sized), but there were no duplicate of any of the strips.
The first one was smaller because of the 33 strips, and there were three each of eleven fabrics, and I am thinking I ought to try to duplicate that sample with a different way of feeding the strips in.
This last one is too light ... 23 blue and red family and 17 strips of extremely light, more white than most families could tolerate, I am thinking ...
a tip might be - - they won't let you open the fabric up in the store, of course, but look for one that seems to have equal parts of light and dark. In the floral one, there were only about three strips of red ... I could have gone with more <g>
And, I am not sure if it would have made a difference, but there are two ways to stitch the folded parts ... either right hand side (which is what I have done through all three samples)
or, flip everything over and stitch down the other side ... at the time, I couldn't see that it would make a difference, but maybe .... I think I will try the flipping it from one side to the other, every other time of stitching on the next one I make, JUST to see what will happen <g>
oh, well ... two quilt tops today ... I think I have done all right <wave>