Originally Posted by
Wanabee Quiltin
A perfect jelly roll would be 40 strips with no doubles. All the fabrics would be bright cheerful 30's prints. And the fabric would feel wonderful. I do have a jelly roll with 30's prints, but she snuck some doubles in there and they are totally ugly !! I felt really cheated when I got home and opened them to check them out. Sure cost me a pretty penny for those ugly Men's underwear type fabrics (my Mother made me iron my stepfather's boxers in the 1960's).
OMG! That's how I learned to iron, too (well, ironing my dad's boxers... that would be downright weird if I were ironing your step-dad's... LOL!). When I tell people that now, they look at me like I've been smoking crack! I learned on boxers, my dad's hankies (he always carried a clean hanky) & tea towels (my mom liked linen ones & they wrinkled like no body's business). What do kids learn to iron on nowadays???