February 2008 Challenge: Jelly Rolls! (Page 1)

St. Charles, Illinois USA
barb@barbvlack.com

Designed for clubEQ challenge, February, 2008: Design for a Jelly Roll!

All patches for this quilt can be cut from the popular 2 1/2" strips being sold as "Jelly Rolls."

Red jelly beans are my favorite. I found that using the Random Recolor tool on this quilt gave me some delightful variations!

St. Charles, Illinois USA
barb@barbvlack.com

Designed for clubEQ challenge, February, 2008: Design for a Jelly Roll!

All patches for this quilt can be cut from the popular 2 1/2" strips being sold as "Jelly Rolls." Playing with colors led to this fun design.

Jelly Rolls EQ Challenge, February 2008. Used blocks: Plaid Fabric and Framed Nine-Patch from the Library.

Ann Czompo
Williamsburg, VA

Jelly Roll EQ Challenge, February 2008.
Used two alternating blocks, quarter log cabin and another block designed by Ann Czompo, Ann 0215

Ann Czompo
Williamsburg, VA

Barbara Boyd
Asheville, NC

I am looking for a project to use a strip set of Chelsea Boutique fabrics by Blackbird Designs.

I have never sent a quilt design before - and this isn't very creative. I confess that I hope to many great ideas from the rest of you!!

I couldn't help myself... I just HAD to use fabric for the effect I wanted.
Barbara Gilstad

Fairmount, IL
I drew the blocks from scratch and designed in grey scale so any collection can be used if divided up by values.

Fairmount, IL
I drew the blocks from scratch and designed in grey scale so any collection can be used if divided up by values.

Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Aberdeenshire
Scotland

Aberdeenshire
Scotland

Blocks made at work meeting are assembled with sashing. Horizontal sashing is one piece all the way across. Even the sash border is 2 1/2 " strips. This is totally scrappy although I didn't try that to save file size.

Davenport, IA
February 2008

Winnipeg, MB Canada

Same block as the first quilt, but one colour way and a different setting with quilting motifs following the vertical path of the blocks.

Winnipeg, MB Canada

The block used in this quilt was inspired by the block "Rainbow Steps" from the EQ Block Library - 2 Contemporary Pieced - Strip Quilts. Using the Symmetry tool gave me a lot of interesting patterns. It was hard to choose just two.

I used 2 inch sqares to develop the design in EQ but would use 2.5 inch jelly roll strips to piece the colors.

Waterbury CT

I adore purples and greens, throw a bit of orange in ther and I would be in my glory. this is a 2 block quilt using blocks from the library. I think it would work well for embroidery or applique in the snowball blocks

Kent, Washington

Stare at the quilt, then blink or look at it from a different angle, and it 3D effect will change.

Kent, Washington

This is the Stripy Drunkard's Path block in colors from a '30's jelly roll.

I would sew these blocks this way: (1) sew two sets of jelly roll strips; (2) cut squares from each strip set; (3) align squares with strips of one set going north/south and the other going east/west, with the darkest color of one on the south side and the dark color of the other one on the east side; (4) use templates from a standard Drunkard's Path block and cut units for two blocks at once. I think I would stay stitch within the seam allowance of the curves -- especially on the piece-of-pie shape -- before sewing.

The strips would not line up exactly as the drawn block but not to worry. Real quilts hardly ever come out EXACTLY the same as the plan.

Sunnyside, Washington

This small quilt is sized entirely for 2½" strips. The colors are from the picture of a jelly roll set of Bali fabrics in 'Keepsake Quilting'. (The background blocks are from pale fabrics; in real life I'd probably use one tone-on-tone fabric for these, not pieced blocks.)

I also like the look of this block and layout in dark-to-pale tints and tones of two colors.

This block could be paper-pieced but you'd need to section and number it yourself before printing. EQ thinks that plan is too silly to save. (EQ may have something there ...)

Sunnyside, Washington

Plano Texas

This takes 42 edge to edge full width 2.5" strips. This layout assumes there are two strips of each color.

Step 1. Sort the 42 strips by groups of three into 14 strip sets. I made two each of seven strip sets. You MUST offset or stair step in EACH strip by 2.25 inches when sewing the strips together to fit 6 wedges from each strip.

Step 2. Cut each strip set into six 45 degree wedges. You will have three wedges with the long edge on strip #1 and three wedges with the long edge on strip #3.

Step 3. Arrange the wedges until you find a pleasing combination (there are many variations, try using the Serendipity tool) and sew together. There will be four 45 degree wedges unused.

East Hampton, NY

Rail Fence pattern done in medium tone prints.

East Hampton, NY

Every fabric in this basic nine patch quilt contains stars.

Houston, Texas, USA

One custom-drawn block was set on point, and some of the blocks were rotated before coloring.

Missouri

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Missouri

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Guildford, England

There may very well be a block like this already in EQ6, but for this challenge I decided it was probably simpler to just draw something from scratch. I drew this as a block in 4 quarters, but in hindsight, I think it would have been better to draw each quarter separately, then you could play around with the symmetry tool to get different layouts. Still, you are all quite capable of doing that yourself aren't you?!

Guildford, England

The first "real" quilt I made was from a Kaffe Fassett kit from his "Passionate Patchwork" book. It was made in jewel bright colours and I love it. This is a simplified version of that quilt with the blocks adapted to accommodate 2.5 inch strips.

Goldsboro, NC.

The block began as an EQ library block. I opened it in Patch Draw and went to town, attempting to adjust the pattern to a jellyrole fabric selection. I love the outcome and will begin stitchig it as soon as I finish my current project!

View with outlines unchecked. 2" finished strips.

Northeastern Ontario