Jelly roll rug?
 

Has anyone done this? I just watched a video on YouTube by Jordan fabrics.......first my touchy BL would not take the bulk of those strops! Second: is it really worth all the work? I wonder how the sewing thread would take the wear and tear...... Like she said at the end...placemats, trivets, tablerunner might e more practical.....btw...I have a no touchy Viking and singer!

I just got the pattern from Etsy. It's not the oval one- it's rectangular. Wish me luck!!
Coincidentally, I got that email this morning from Jordan's. I plan to watch it later.

For some reason I can't access the Jordan video. It's a blank screen

I just saw one of these on a shop hop to Nashville. The shop was selling what looked like jelly rolls of batting to use in them. I didn't investigate further but the sample rug they made was beautiful. It reminded me of the rope baskets but flat. I too wondered if it would wash.

I made one. Have it beside my bed. Call it my prayer rug! My husband loves it, too. I bought a jelly roll on sale from Craftsy for under $15. Used leftover batting. Want to make more. Several other ladies tried making one and had problems with them turning into a bowl.

Thanks for the link. I have been thinking about making one.

Our sewing club instructor had a demo on it and hers came out curvy too; the trick she discovered is to NOT pull or push it but let the machine do the work; otherwise it will get curvy. I have the pattern to make one too.

I guess these are the newest "big thing" right now huh? I just watched a different video on YouTube, and there is a somewhat ... shall we say... spirited discussion going on about whether the pattern can be copyrighted. Actually it seems just like the coiled fabric bowls I have made in the past, just keeping it flat instead of tilting the roll so that it forms into a shape. And some enterprising company (Bosal, I believe) has started selling the rolls of 2.5" batting so that you can make them with jelly rolls. My local shop has also scheduled a class on the rugs. Funny how must-have items and newly-discovered techniques just keep circling around and around.... :)

Likewise here

I was able to get there with this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xblarkuBg

Thanks, but that's not Jordan's. It's someone else. I will watch it anyway. Thanks!

I like Jordan fabrics design better than the oval I've seen in other videos...there does seem to be a lot of "bowing" happening withe the continuous oval rug. Whereas with the Jordan, each jelly roll,strip is sewn like a string block...no bowing and looks so much easier to handle....maybe I would first try a tablerunner.... Several years ago there was a pattern out for a purse done with that same technique..a friend did one and it was lovely........

Here is a video of the oval one that is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xb...&feature=share

At first I thought I needed to make one but now I'm not sure. It's a lot of work for a rug. LOL

Geri, where did you find Jordan's ? I can't find it.

At least this lady tells you how to do it instead of saying “its in the pattern” every other sentence. Wish she would have shown how to turn the corner though. That is the only thing holding me back right now....thinking about that. I do not have a pattern. I like how Donna Jordan sewed her strips in the middle. I think that will lay better and softer on the feet.

SusieQOH, you're right. That's funny, because when I did a utube search for the Jordan Fabric's rug, this is a link that popped up.
So, I went to Jordan Fabrics, and clicked on their playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...oGD27nG1AMCCgc
(all 88 videos), and the rug is not on the list anymore.

It wasn't here either: https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...jelly+roll+rug

What link do you have?

I have crocheted rug in downstairs bathroom. It was made a long time ago with old sheets and I can barely crochet but it’s thick and lays flat so I like it. This is a different concept however.

I have made oval place mats using fabric strips and batting. When turning a corner let the fabric cord be relaxed and even itself out around the curve. Don't stretch or pull it, hold it next to the rung it should be sewed to and let the machine ease it in.

Well this certainly is bizarre...the YouTube video is no longer there! I saved the email that I oroginally rec'd with the direct link to video and when I opened and clicked on itt a few minutes ago, instead of the jelly roll rug, the tute on a tablerunner popped up! I think I'll try contacting JF to see what happened......hope I get a reply.....

I made a set of coil fabric covered coasters yesterday and there is no reason the clothesline I used for the coil wouldn't make a great rug. I cut strips of 2" wide fabric, and sew the line in it like piping using a zipper foot. I trim the edge to 1/8" from the stitching line and then sew the strips together keeping the seam line on the inside of the shape. No raw edges show. So much easier and faster then wrapping fabric around the line.

Making a matching bowl with the leftover line today. Oh 56" of line makes a perfect size coaster.

I got the pattern for the rectangular one and I think maybe it's copyrighted and maybe that's why Jordan's had to take it down.
Bummer b/c I always have an easier time with visuals.

Mystery solved! Apparently the author of the video that they did asked that it be removed. But, they are planning their own in the near future with a free pattern..

Geri B- I started mine today. As I said it's rectangular. I watched a different video and she had great tips for making the coils. So between that and my pattern I'm all set.
But I hope to watch Jordan's. Thanks for your detective work :)
If I get it done I'll post a pic. It's really easy so far.

Can you tell what video you watched?

Geri B- here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8xblarkuBg

But I didn't do it the way she does. I do the strips separately- a strip of fabric with the batting inside folded double. The ends meet in the middle then fold and stitch. Then you zigzag the coils together in a rectangle. Mine are coils. Let me take a pic for you. It's super easy!
But it's a very good tutorial.
The only thing I don't like about the rectangular one is that you have to bind it. But I haven't gotten there yet.

The tutorial that SusieQOH linked is a very good one or everything except telling how to smoothly go around the ends without getting a “bowl” instead of a rug. I liked Donna Jordan’s tutorial even though it is for a rectangle. I had saved Donna’s tutorial but when YouTube took that tutorial off, it also wiped it off my saved list.

The way Donna stitches the folds seems much better than the other tutorial (above). Donna sews the fold in the middle instead of the 1/8” inch from the edge. (And you don’t have to t-r-y to keep the 1/8” seam straight. :-)

Forgot to say I am planning to make the rectangle. It will fit in my planned space better and I will have no problem adding a binding to the ends.

Well that’s a bummer that her tutorial had to be taken down. A bit shortsighted on the part of the pattern maker as I would have bought a pattern that had a Donna Jordan video for support.

The only real difference is the clothes line is round. These rugs are made with batting, making a flatter rug surface. Both are fun, easy and functional.

thanks for bring this up! I have one jellyroll (Kaufman), solids, which was a gift from Craftsy.
I've tried to give it away a couple of times, no one else wanted it either :)

So it is now in one big long strip. I cut scrap batting up in 2.5" strips, but am going back and recutting to 2"
so I won't have so much mushed in the center fold.

I've got the Beatles on Pandora and just getting ready to change out to the Denim needle

Those strips are very pretty!

The Beatles make everything better!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

You should have bought the patterns first. Copyrights are protected....... everyone wants FREE.
I laughed a few years ago at the discussions regarding wreath pattern . A lot of quilters wanted to figure it out vs buying the pattern. Shops who offer FREE are losing $$$$$$ at the register.