Old 01-12-2013, 09:09 AM
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Tothill
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How big a quilt do you want to make?

I am making an approximately twin sized quilt out of one charm pack and a jelly roll from the same line, plus extra for borders.

I saw something on Youtube in the summer and just went for it.

I separated the colours into lights and darks. Then I paired up a light charm to a dark strip and the other way around a dark charm to a light strip. I tried to also make sure the prints were different scale as much as possible. Then I sewed the jelly roll to two sides of each charm, trimmed and then sewed it to the other two sides. I did not measure anything.

Then I took the left over jelly rolls and sewed them all together like a jelly roll race. If I had thought this step through I would have just sewed the long sides together, but I was not sure what I was going to do with them. I trimmed the jelly roll block into 2.5 inch strips and sewed them end to end. I used this as my first border.

For my second border I bought a marbly (sorry not a real word) fabric that worked with all the colours (took the quilt top to the store with me to choose).

I am not finished the quilting, I got side tracked, but I used my embroidery machine and sewed one of two medallions in the centre of each block.

I will try to post a photo when I am finished.
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