Jelly Roll "race" quilt - Horrible

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06-21-2012, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by QuiltingCrazie

I'm with you I had to do strip sets for my daughters quilt and I to get bored. More power to you guys I love precuts but I haven't seen one of the race quilts that I personally liked its a personal thing I'm to matchy. Good luck hope you finish

I'm "matchy" too & what I like about Jelly Roll Races is that they take me out of my comfort zone & that's good for me.

06-21-2012, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by SandScraps

I tried the race the first time I used the technique. Subsequently, I get up after each row of sewing and iron the seam and then, at the end, the whole thing is done. It takes longer but I find the prospect of ironing all the seams in one go daunting and it feels like ironing laundry and not a quilt top. It remains a wonderfully interesting and fast way to prepare a top in a short time. I now cut a strip off each new fabric, cut it in half and save them for the next non-race jelly roll quilt. It is also a nice way of getting something done when inspiration runs low.

OK... I'll admit that I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer but aren't you supposed to iron each row as you finish it? That's how I've done it on both of my Jelly Roll Races. I would think waiting till the end would really be tricky.

06-21-2012, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Lilrain

sure wish I could see a picture of the finished top

I think there's a whole gallery of them here on the board somewhere...

06-22-2012, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by BellaBoo

I make the jelly roll race quilts when I go to a sew day as it's mindless sewing and I can talk and socialize without concentrating on a quilt pattern. I can do up to three in one sew day. I make a lot of them in baby colors to keep on hand for baby gifts and to give to the church nursery where our guild meeting is held. I keep a supply of jelly rolls in my sew day bag and nothing to take but machine, scissors, and jelly rolls. I press all the seams to one side after the top is done. I don't press each seam separate.

That's what I am doing. I did a demo at Quilt Club in May --on how to do the Jelly Roll Race Quilt. LIke lots of others said--it is not a race--only if you want it to be. A few of the gals in Quilt Club are going to sew one of these quilts at our Sewing Day in July. I, too, am going to. I cut leftover strips from coordinated fabrics that I had leftover from another quilt I made. Then I took each strip and cut in into different sized lengths. I want to make a jelly roll quilt that is more scrappy looking--without the very long lenghts of fabrics. I am anxioius to sew this quilt together. I am like you, and taking this to sewing day so that I cn visit and sew at the same time. It is a quilt that doesn't take high concentration for sewing together so it will be perfect for sewing day.

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06-22-2012, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by MarlaMars

I did one and I did not enjoy it either. I used batiks and I did not like the way the colors fell next to each other and you know that batiks are beautiful. Very hard to ruin a batik quilt but this jelly roll thing did it. I won't do it again and I am trying to figure out what to do with this now. I guess it will go in the UFO pile until I decide where it should go.

Interesting. I quilted one for a customer and it was batisks in purples, blues, greens, and that was the jelly roll quilt I like the best of any I've seen. The colors just all seemed to blend well. I did a jelly roll quilt in May and after I had it all done, I took apart about 5 of the horizontal seams and repositioned my rows so I could spread out some of the colors more as some of the colors were kind of lumped together in spots. This is not the greatest pattern for me as I am way to anal about scrappy looking quilts. I need the colors all dispersed evenly. I really like the quilt now that I took some of the rows apart and repositioned them .

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06-22-2012, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by mom-6

I've made two in the past couple of weeks. The main criticism I have is that the jelly rolls I used for the second one had too many repetitions of the same fabrics, thus creating too many places where the same fabric was side by side.

I also discovered that I prefer the look of the diagonal joining, even though it is a bit more work. And I also think if I do another one I will cut the strips in half as well. That may help with getting more variety in the piecing.

VERY IMPORTANT: Remember--- that if you cut all the strips in half, you are going to have to add a couple more strips to your collection --to add to the length to make up for all the extra seams you are sewing.