Next I taught a class and everyone there put their quilts together differently and everyone had different fabrics and they all again turned out very unique.
Well now I have bought another Jelly Roll, but didn't want to spend a lot of money on other fabric to go with it so I just picked up 1 color that went with all the fabrics, a tone on tone, and started my quilt. I wanted something that would be easy and simple to make so I decided to make my own version of the "Fractions" Pattern. I took my jelly roll fabrics and sewed a strip of the tone on tone down one side of each strip. The Jelly Roll was 2 1/2" and I sewed a 1 1/2" strip of the background fabric. Then I cut each strip into 3 1/2" rectangles. Then I started sewing my pieced together. I would pick out two pieces placing the jelly roll strips right sides together sewed the 3 1/2" side. This made a nice rectangle with the background fabric on both sides and the jelly roll fabric in the middle, 6 1/2" wide and 3 1/2" in length. I sewed all of the pieces together.
Next I placed the pieces right sides together and sewed down the 6 1/2" side. This gave me one block with the jelly roll pieces in the center, flanked by the background strip and a 6 1/2" square block. After sewing all of the pieces together into the 6 1/2" square blocks I began joining the blocks. I would place 1 block with the background strips horizontal and the next with the background strips vertical. The worked up into a great little pattern and I just kept adding the blocks until I had used them all up in the top.
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| By alternating the placement of the blocks, it appears that each block has a border. Looks a lot harder than it was :) |
As the quilt came together I decided that I wanted to put a triple border on this quilt so I picked up enough of one of the fabrics in the jelly roll to put a border around the quilt and then used the background color for the 2nd border and picked out another fabric in the Jelly Roll for the 3rd border.
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| This quilt was super easy to make and was really a lot of fun. Using the Jelly Roll really made this one easy. The green was the only fabric that was not in the fabric line but I'm thrilled with the outcome. |
It really doesn't take a lot of imagination to use a Jelly Roll and make a great quilt. You can purchase patterns and/or books in a variety of places, or you can do as I did and decide to just sew it together in a pattern of your own choosing.
When I purchased my fabric and decided on the border fabric, I didn't really know the final size of the quilt. Well, I sort of ran short of fabric on my last border. I was sewing the last border on the week after the tornado hit Ringgold, GA and the local quilt shop was totally demolished. I thought, on no, I'll never be able to find that fabric now. (I'm really not into buying fabric off the internet even though I know I could if push came to shove.) I rounded up every tiny scrap I had left and sewed them together. The last border had about 20 pieces of fabric in the last 16" but the fabric was a print and it really didn't show. Believe me when I say, I really sweated over that one!! This will be my tornado quilt.
In memory of the tornado and those who lost so much, I quilted tornados in the corners of the quilt. This quilt now has more than one special memory, the tornado, and my friend who inspired me by bringing her "Fractions" quilt to me for quilting. My wonderful friends are a constant source of inspiration and I thank God for each and every one.
I hope everyone has a great day and gets to do some sewing or quilting this week. Its a wonderful hobby that can produce some really great useable gifts.
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