I have a black and white jelly roll I'm considering using for the jelly roll race quilt. But I think when I'm done I'll use it for a "canvas" for a large floral applique. I'm thinking maybe California Poppies would look cool.

Be sure to visit this site and see all the wonderful ideas other quilts have come up with...for Jelly Rolls. See PHOTOS.
Not everyone buys their rolls, they make their own. Even Etsy has had some quilts that were made from Jelly Rolls.

http://www.jellyrollquilters.com/for...istForCategory

June in Cincinnati

Sounds to me, by the name it is suppose to be fast. Why would they call it a Jelly Roll Race?
Don't feel bad SharonB and others, I can't do much fast either, I can keep up a steady pace and work longer than others.

Well not including the putting the strips together end to end it took just over 2 hours - of course I didn't have the pedal all the way down and was chatting as I was working :) Will post pics tomorrow

Ok and here is the pic of all the strips together- it has mostly florals [ATTACH=CONFIG]324581[/ATTACH]

Were I not such an obsessive compulsive perfectionist, I'm sure I could stitch much faster. But then my pieces wouldn't be as precisely cut. And my blocks wouldn't come out square. etc. etc. I am happy this way. My husband and family love me this way. No medical professional has ever wanted to medicate me for this. It's just my personality. But I won't be entering any "jelly roll races", that's for certain! I'd come in dead last!

I have made several strip quilts. Timing depends on what you are using as strips. If you use 42" wide strips - takes no time at all, small strips or odd sizes take a long time to sew together. However, I like the odd sized strip look best of all. I just keep sewing pieces together until I have enough to start joining and sewing. Sometimes I add some applique after finishing just to make the piece have a different look.

it looks great... It took me 2 hrs- to make the one long strip then petal to the floor to sew side by side, snip and sew- and it was NOT straight sewing by no means... But it was fun..

I did one in batiks. It took me about 2 hours to do and it came out great.

I read your post and laughed so hard I cried! Not at you - I attended a quilt retreat last weekend and my friend and I decided to make the 1600 inch quilt. Since the youtube video had it done in under an hour, we figured we could come home with a quilt top totally finished by the end of the weekend! Doesn't work that way. We started early Sat. morning - around 9:00am and by lunchtime, we just looked at each other saying - what is wrong with us? We should be done by now! Long story short - I finished sewing mine together just before dinner at 6:00pm. Sun morning I put borders on it. My friend didn't get that far. Hers twisted a lot more than mine and she spent a lot of time untwisting it.
I found the best way to handle the twists for the first two or three rows is to gently urge it to go to the end and cut it when you are ready to sew the end and then even up where you cut. When you get to the last few rows it is easy to keep it from twisting. I think next time I would lay out the 1600 inches, double it over, and cut before I sewed the first long row.
So, it took me the better part of a day and a half to finish my hour quilt top! I will try to take a pic and post later today.