My mind's eye doesn't like the jelly roll quilt with the wide stripes. If you don't want to do the narrower strips, how about cutting out squares and fitting them together in a quilt? I'd go on multiples of 3, and I just finished a quilt like that and was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to do. Of course, you also have to add seam allowances, so that 3" would actually be 3 1/2". But for example, I used blocks that were: 3"X 8", 12" X 12", 9" X 6", 9" X 15". 6" X 6", etc. etc. Those are without seam allowances, don't forget. Then I laid out the quilt until I was satisfied with the arrangement of all of these multi-sized blocks and their surrounding colors. I did have to fill in a few spots with a 3" X 4" pieces I had to make up, plus other, similar, small blocks, in order to make it work. I had to design the quilt on graph paper before I could do it. But it turned out brilliantly! I loved all the different sizes versus doing something like putting together strings of 4" blocks. Anyway, it's a thought.