Pink Dogwood

I started small to try this pattern from my stash and it went fairly well after I cut all the strips. Twisting was a problem, but I just cut it at the end and worked out. My DD put her bid in for it when she saw it, so I guess its OK. It was fun and FAST!

rebeccalr

I did one, but made blocks around the center piece and then used the same technique to make the piano key border. The quilt turned out WAY too busy for me, but I hope my MIL liked it. I didn't offset the 20", because I used a strip leftover from something else.

dinlauren

WOW!! What an endeavor. Very ambitious. I'm sure it will be wonderful when you are finished and you will be very proud of it.

plainpat

I'd love to see a pic. Love the vanilla shades.

Linda58

Does anyone have the calculations for twin, queen, King?

I bought 2 rolls of 2 1/2 inch strips to make my DD a queen
size quilt, but I don't know how many strips to use.

Would also love to make myself a king and twins for the grandchildren.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Baloonatic

Butting the seams is fine and presents a nice finish to the quilt. But IMHO I think diagonal seams give a different feel and add gentle movement to the finished quilt. If you have to cut off your selvages anyway, why not just make the cut on the diagonal? It needn't be an extra step.

Baloonatic

I wonder if you were to stitch up 2-3 of the seams for a king-sized quilt, then at one point don't sew them together but keep them divided. It would be making two quilts, then sew them together at the end. It would be a lot easier to manouever all that fabric.
Does this make sense?

Baloonatic

I love this quilt!!

Maggiem

I've just finished one, using a jelly roll of rainbow batiks, and mitered the strips together to get a diagonal join.

This type of join isn't any more time-consuming to my mind than straight seaming them, and gives a nice transition and movement. I'm glad I did it that way with these particular fabrics.

When doing the miles of piecing, find a good audio book to listen to! It's only the first seam that is REALLY long! After that, the sewing just flies.

I'm just deciding on borders now - maybe a dark blue Bali blender...

These are fun to make, and I am going to try another one with a more themed, unified jelly roll.

DonnaC

Funny this topic should come up today - I just finished a top this past weekend using this method! I will post a picture later tonight when I get home.

I used a Wal-Mart jelly roll that I had hanging around. Because it had only six different fabrics, the look of mine is a bit different, because some of the colors butt up against each other. Hard to explain unless you can see it.