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| Topside of the Finished Quilt! |
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| Backside of the Quilt
Well here it is. After not too much hard work, I have a new quilt for my bed.
I saw the patterns for the Jellyroll Race quilts and liked the concept, but not the lack of control over the finished product. I also didn't want the strips to be so narrow. I made my strips 4" instead of the 2.5" jellyroll size.
Too make it was pretty simple. I cut 26 - 4" x wof strips of my patterned fabrics. 13 - 4" x wof strips of each solid. I used Kona Snow and Aqua. Then I took one of each solid, stacked them on top of each other evenly, and then cut both of them in 2 strips. Then you pair up the opposite colors so their lengths combined equal wof. I did this with all the solid strips, but varied where I cut them into 2. I made one so there was no white strip, just a whole aqua strip. Then I sewed the patterned strip between the two solids.
Before I sewed all the strips together I laid them out my floor to decide on the order of the strips. There were 3 of each of the fabric patterns , except for about 2 of the patterns there were 4. I put them all in a repeating order except the 2 extra one I had to fit somewhere. Then I just sewed the strips together in that order.
The white side has a 15" border added to it after all the strips were sewn together. I wanted the pattern to be off set. I measured it so that the seam to that boarder would hit my mattress on the corner, so the entire boarder is the part of the quilt hanging on the side of the bed. That area I free motion quilted on. The rest of the quilt I quilted 1/4" on either side of the seams horizontally.
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