Rainbow Jelly Roll Race Quilt
Along the way quilters got together and decided to race against each other to finish a quilt top.
Rainbow jelly roll race quilt. I ended up not using all of the strips i left out some pinks because i felt the rainbow looked better without them. The stripes of the quilt are pieced and the large flowers and leaves are done in raw edge applique. In quilting terms just what is a jelly roll. Quilt shops got on board and quilters everywhere were making jelly roll quilts.
You ll need about 40 45 strips each measuring 2 1 2 wide by approximately 42 long. Jelly roll race quilt instructions 1. There are 20 different fabrics in these jelly rolls. So here is a bit of fun if you re up for it.
Create a stunning quilt or simply add to your fabric stash with these beautiful 2 5 inch pre cut fabric strips. There are no repeated fabrics and they are cut on a factory press for accuracy. A jelly roll is a collection of forty fabric strips that are pre cut at 2 height x 44 long. Refer to diagram 1 for the direction to quilt and photo 2 to see the quilting in the ditch.
Use 100 percent black cotton thread in the top of your machine and in your bobbin. It uses one 40 strip jelly roll fabric collection sewn into a single super long strip that is then folded in half and sew together along one edge you cut the folded edge open and then repeat for a total of 5 seams. Once the ditching was completed it was nice but lacked something. This jelly roll quilt was created a few years back after someone figured out that sewing all the jelly roll strips together makes for a nice sized lap quilt.
It wasn t made in the same way as the jelly roll race quilt. I just sewed the strips directly together long edge to long edge in a pleasing rainbow pattern. Unwrap the jelly roll or create a stack of self cut strips yourself. Floral striped throw quilt 59 25 x 71 5 chenille flowers moda aria jelly roll race feminine girlie quilt the design of this quilt is called jelly roll race and was done in the moda line called aria by kate spain.
This quilt went together very quickly.