Good Afternoon,

While at my local quilt shop this weekend, I got some Jelly Rolls on clearance. Buy 3 get 3 free!! Woohoo! So I have some Moda jane something fabrics. They are bright primary colors, but I have NEVER worked with Jelly Rolls before, and wondered if someone had a nice pattern that would recommend?

I don't have any in my head, but there are some on the Moda Bakeshop site and I absolutely love the books by Pam Lintott about jelly rolls.

I recently started on a Bento Box quilt that uses jelly rolls. You get 20 blocks from a jelly roll, very easy, and fairly quick. The place I got mine doesn't have it on their site anymore, but I'm sure if you do a check on the web, it will turn up somewhere. My Bento Box is made with Moda's Wildflower Serenade, and it's gorgeous! It's not completed yet, but when I finish it, I'll try to remember to post a picture.

great pattern

Hi Michael, log cabins are good with Jelly Rolls, lots of layout possibilities!

I love the Bento Box pattern. Recently while organizing my fabric I started making my own jelly roll. I've cut two strips from any yardage that had over 2 yds. I figure that should still leave enough of the original fabric for most projects I'd do. I'll be keeping the Bento Box in mind. Makes a great looking quilt.

I made this pattern with a Bali Pop, and it turned out AWESOME. I'm going to do it again with just a "regular" jelly roll :)

Check it out: http://www.hoffmanfabrics.com/EDocs/...ds%20F0808.pdf

Any of the braid patterns work nicely. I just pieced a braid quilt using 2&1/2" strips our guild members traded over the last 18mo. It was a lot of fun.

the fat quarter shop has a section for free patterns:
http://www.fatquartershop.com/freequiltpattern.asp

there is a "moda" section so maybe there is a jelly roll pattern in there.

I find that a lot of the fabric manufacturers have free patterns for their different lines of fabric. if you search the designer's name (on the selvedge) then you might find something specific to the fabric you bought.

Also, put in jelly roll pattern in the search feature here and see what you come up with. I did this for "honey bun pattern" a few weeks back to get some ideas.

Also, if you are looking to purchase a pattern, there is a big selection here:
http://www.fatquartershop.com/Jelly-...lt-Pattern.asp

My mom just purchased this book:
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I looked through it a couple weekends when I was there visiting and there are lots of really great patterns in that book. it might be worth the investment.

Okay....now I think this is strange. I go to order this book online at Barnes & Noble....and they give you like the first 4 projects in the preview window.....WHY would the author do that?

http://search2.barnesandnoble.com/Bo...=9780715328637

I can't access your link, probably because I'm in Canada but when I checked it on Amazon, you can only access the directions for the first project, but they are complete.

I think the "look inside" function is supposed to replace your ability to pick it up in the store and flip through the pages in a bricks and mortar store.

Anyhow, I really recommend the book. I loved pretty much every pattern in it, and the really nice thing is that they showed each pattern done in at least 2 colour ways so you can see what the quilt looks like in different fabrics.

Most of the patterns struck me as on the more modern end of the spectrum.

also - it's only $16.49 at Amazon...vs $19.99 at Barnes and Noble.

I love jelly rolls, I took a class at my local quilt shop and this is what came of it!

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-24850-1.htm

Yeah but it's IN STOCK at my store. :P

whoops, I didn't notice that!

If you're interested in the Bento Box pattern, here is something close using Jelly Rolls:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...8124308AAbEupC

WOW - what a great deal on Jelly Rolls. Be sure to post pics on what you decide to make. They have some good prices on Jelly Rolls at Connecting Threads, too, if you get the 'bug'.

That is a great book. I have it.

You have to be a B&N member to view the book. I bought this one. It has patterns for usally 1 jelly roll plus extra yardage for the background and borders. I don't see why you couldn't use the jelly roll for the border too. I did like the patterns though.
I also like Trade Winds and am geared up to do a quilt in this pattern.

Check out this site for some FANTASTIC free quilt patterns:
http://www.hoffmanfabrics.com/conten...asp?FolderID=7

Really nice site.. many things to put on my to do list now :-P

Hi Michael, I answered your email about bags.

Anyway, jelly rolls are great. I used an easy pattern for the quilt below from: http://www.maryquilts.com/boxed-squares/

I used 2 bali pops/jelly rolls to make mine bigger, but you can use one and make a quilt 48"x60". It would look cute with the fabric you just bought. Good luck.

Love that pattern, have 3 jelly rolls sitting in my sewing room I bought from ebay and this would be perfect for one of them!!

I did both these with Jelly Rolls... loved doing them.

Love your quilts, especially the 3rd one. Aren't JR's great?

I made a tube quilt recently from a jelly roll. Rain Fence, log cabin. If you want easy then any square or rectangular design is good. Don't stress too much on the first one, save the detailed patterns for the next.

jelly rolls are great for log cabin quilts.

I am going to make a quilt called Split Decisions by Teacher's Pet. It looks very easy to make. I am using Moda's Gyspy Rose jelly roll.

Here is a link to the pattern:

http://www.trinityquilts.com/item.ph...ategory_id=466

I am also working on a couple of tube quilts using Bali Pops -fun and pretty straightforward - even for me ;-)

Heather, just checked out Fat Quarter Shop and spoted the "Grab Bag". Selling lbs of fabric sounds great, but I couldn't find any info on how large/small the fabric pieces are. I have no use for a pound of crappy scraps - do you know anything about their Grab Bags?
I do a lot of Fabric.com, Connecting Threads, Thousand Bolts, etc. but I've never gotten anything from Fat Quarter Shop.
Thanks for info if you have it,
Thanks for taking time to read this post if you don't. LOL

I have been curious about this too! I will be watching for this response.

love this Trade Winds pattern, I have lots of flannel left over material, needed a pattern to make a grand son a quilt. I think this will work wonders. This is a good winter project or me. thanks for the site connection.

check out the jelly roll quilts on youtube. Love this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5WgT...eature=related

I could spend all day on Missouri you tube site.
Love the tube patterns.

Patterns?
 

Love the purple and red quilts. What IS the pattern? Gorgeous! :thumbup:

Wonderful quilts ! What are the patterns used ?? thanks -

I love that pattern .... have you a picture of your finished quilt? jj

Anything that uses 2.5 inch strps would work... Eleanor Burns has been famous for patterns with that size strips, for years and years....