Originally Posted by mac
Originally Posted by BevD
I bought a Jelly Roll pattern book last year at our quilting show. Great book have already made two quilts and one top out of it, no problem...
My bad move lately was buying three jelly rolls on the internet and not realising - wasn't in pics - that the edges were pinked!!
My poor machine is so clogged I swear I will never again buy the pinked, I will ALWAYS email and ask if they are straight cut.
Bad enough the bits everywhere when you open the jelly roll, the bits on the ironing board when pressing seams but my poor machine had to suffer too..
Sorry about that, just had to stop CLEANING and have a gripe.
While I have never used a jelly roll before, I was wondering if this is a common problem with the pinked jelly rolls, has anyone tried vacuuming the edges (while they are still in a roll) to get the majority of lint off first.
I just bought my first 2 jelly rolls "Batik Pops" from a quilt show recently. I won a door prize for $10 at a booth and the only thing that interested me were the Batik Pops because of the colors. Since I couldn't decide I bought 2 of them at $35 each (or $30 each with the prize).
I figured out later that at $35 the fabric would have been $12/yd. I suppose that if you take in the fact that you don't buy a lot of extra fabric this way and can still get a good selection of fabric that it is probably more cost effective to buy it this way -- but it still seems pretty darn expensive.
You're definitely paying for the advantage of not having to make some of the cuts. I find that using pre cuts is super quick compared to cutting it all out on my own but I don't pay full price for any of them unless it's something I need for an existing project or something brand new that I just *have* to have. I've paid anywhere from $17 and up for a Moda jelly roll. Rarely more than $25.