"Jelly Roll race quilt"--Using wider strips
 

Hello, Has anyone made a "jelly roll race" style quilt using wider strips? Since I have so many donated pieces of fabric and I could make it really scrappy or just one color theme, or coordinating color themes etc. But I was thinking if I am going to custom cut the strips anyway, what would it be like with wider strips. I know I would need to do the math to re-calculate number of strips, but wondered if anyone had done one already.

Well, yes, I have! I made a black and white quilt and had left over 4-patches. I figured it would be pretty easy to make a few more and use them as borders with jelly roll strips in-between. Think they were 3.5 or 4" finished, can always pull it out and measure.

While the change in width really didn't make any difference, keeping the black/white grid of those 4-patches made it significantly harder than it needed to be... I think with multi-colors it would have been fun and fast and slap dash instead of the thought process it had to be.

So the pictures are "Black and White and Red all Over" and the original, "Not Everything is Black and White"

Edit: here's a detail of the corner.

Having problems with the corner detail. Starting fresh!

Without the strict black/white rules I was using it wouldn't have been so much of an issue.

OH those are great quilts!!! black and white rules in your house!!

Iceblossom those are such pretty quilts. Great answer for Heather. Something to try one day.

The "Not Everything is Black and White" is pretty much what I call a direct lift from Karla Alexander, the New Cuts for New Quilts book. I bought the book for the front cover, but this project is on the back cover.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/15...t_bibl_vppi_i3

I really like her Stack the Deck series of books and different construction techniques where I can make great looking projects without having to be too fussy about my vision and precision. I've made several now based on her techniques.

One thing I learned in mine is that I used two different polka dot fabrics intersecting in the centers, again -- too fussy to bother with (one is black with white dots and the other is white with black dots). They are only 1" sashings and a simple single 50/50 black/white polka dot background of either color would have been fine.

The "Black and White and Red" is just a common jelly roll idea, inserting a square at intervals.

edit: and when I was sewing, I indeed went black strip, white strip, red square, repeat!

Those are beautiful. So you made the 4 patch with leftovers from the race quilt, then decided to use them for the borders? I was trying to follow which quilt came first. Either way they are beautiful thank you. I get shy when it comes to really outrageous fabrics--and boy I was given some (large Halloween / masquerade print that has a 6 inch half naked lady with skulls and roses) anyway. I have so many 20 inch long pieces that I was thinking if I cut them at a wider width, 1/2 wof or about 20 inches, it would resemble the scrappier versions of the jelly roll race quilts that I have seen. Also I could put an accent block like you did with the red with the shorter pieces of fabric, then it would all look intentional. Guess no rules right!!

I made the 4-patch first, and had leftover strips and presewn combinations as well as some extra completed 4-patches I didn't use. Plus all the yardage was still out and a huge pile...

So first I cut down the presewn sets and made enough of the four-patches to checkerboard around the outside -- that was how I determined the final size.

Then I used the remaining strips I had already cut, plus cut more strips the same size to make the "jellyroll" part.

The 4-patches weren't hard to use at all, it was the black/white thing that made a simple thing more difficult. With multiple colors you really wouldn't care what you ended with.

Gotcha. Thanks for inspirations. I think I will gather up some colors and see what happens.

Very pretty quilts, Iceblossom.