How Many Jelly Rolls Would it Take to Make a Quilt?
 

I made the mistake of subscribing to the Missouri Quilt Company deal of the day and really love these colors:
https://www.missouriquiltco.com/shop/dailydeal

It doesn't say how much fabric is in the jelly roll. I have never used a jelly roll before and didn't know what I would do with one.

Then I saw this pattern and I'm wondering if one jelly roll would make it? Is anyone familiar with what you get from MQC?

http://www.unitednotions.com/fp_cros...e-quarters.pdf

A jelly roll is 2 1/2 strips, and they usually either have 40 or 42 WOF strips, or about 3 yards.
Your pattern calls for 1 1/2 strips, so you'd have an extreme amount of waste, plus, you get one or two strips of each fabric in a collection in a jelly roll, so even if you made that quilt, you wouldn't be able to get the coloration that is in the pattern. (It's a nice pattern, go for yardage for it.
If you search for jelly roll patterns, you should find many options, a 1600 quilt is a very easy pattern for a jelly roll. I also like to look on Moda Bakeshop for precut patterns.

Hi,
I think the ones you bought have 40 (forty) 2.5" strips. The strips are the wof, usually 42-44"..

As far as how much that is in yardage, the MQC website says 2.77 yards for a 40 strip jelly, and 2.9 for a 42 strip jelly.

There are lots of free patterns for jelly roll quilts. Do a Google search, search here on QB,
etc.

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-...th+jelly+rolls

On the pattern you posted, since it's 1.5" strips, I think you'd be better to get a honeybun. They are like jelly rolls, only the strips are 1.5".

By the way, the jelly roll you bought has beautiful colors!
Regards,
Kif

I would just redraw the pattern since the pattern calls for cutting 1.5" wide strips and jelly rolls are 2.5" wide.

Well I think your question has been answered. There are many wonderful Jelly Roll patterns. AND you made me buy that - I haven't been looking at their emails but I love Stonehenge fabric

I buy 95% of pre cuts from Missouri Star. They are name brand and excellent quality. I use jelly rolls for sashing, borders, bindings, string piecing, strata blocks, the list is long. The last couple of years I sarted buying pre cuts more then yardage.

Well, I planned to just make it with 2.5" strips instead, but could not find the information about how long the strips are in that jelly roll. I didn't buy it yet, as I wanted to figure out if I could use it for the pattern I like, and if I need to buy more than one, etc.
Thanks
:-)

That info is kind of buried down in the post. It's listed right above the photo of the OSU quilt.

"Each Stonehenge Opal 2.5" Strips contains 40 2.5" x 44" strips of fabric. Each print is duplicated."

Those daily deals can be a real deal - or they can lead me right down a path...

Missouri Star has scads of free patterns using precuts; you can watch tutorials for many of them on youtube. They also have a TON of other useful information. Here's basic info on precuts: http://blog.missouriquiltco.com/?s=standardization

Here's what you need from various precuts to achieve different quilt sizes. As you will see, one precut can get you a twin-sized quilt - depending on the pattern, of course. http://blog.missouriquiltco.com/what-can-a-precut-make/

I've made a queen size from 2 jelly rolls with very, very little left. Another good source for free patterns using precuts is moda's bake shop; you can search for patterns by whatever precut you have.

That's a pretty pattern, I like it.

Since the pattern calls for 1 1/2" strips, I'm not sure that a jelly roll would be your best best. You will be tossing 1" off each strip, unless you save for another project.

If you do use a jelly roll, I am sure it would take 2 or 3 to make this pattern. Unless you use 2 1/2" strips instead.