Love those Jelly Rolls!
I’m in love with Jelly Rolls. There’s just something so dang sweet about them! Yesterday I went to the Moda web site and ta da! My favorite Jelly Rolls appeared! I was so surprised to see that Lily & Will were having coffee hot chocolate with Moda!
If you like to play with Jelly Rolls go to the Moda website for the new Jelly Roll Dream Challenge! Here’s your chance to design a Jelly Roll quilt and win big! Enter the contest and you might win a Janome sewing machine not to mention a lot of fame. It’s “sew” easy and so much fun! Remember you can download the fabric swatches for all the current lines on the Moda website then design away using graph paper or Electric Quilt.
I’m taking a little survey: Are you a “waste not, want not kind of quilter” or is “time well spent” more important to you? I have to admit I’m on the side of “time”. I’m the one who loves to use pre-cut cream and white jelly rolls! Forget cutting my own strips it’s just not for me. I want to open the package and start sewing. Which one are you? Tell me in the comments and you could win a cream jelly roll along with a Lily & Will Jelly Roll! I’ll tell you the winners on my next blog post! (There is no wrong or right answer so be honest.)
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Anne
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Katie
I forgot to say…. I also don’t know what to do with the left overs from precuts. I can’t add them to my scrap bins since all that fabric is washed. I’m a scrap-keeper so I have a hard time with the waste. :-)
Katie
I suspect I’m in the minority but I do not like Jelly Rolls……at all.
First of all they are very messy to work with. All those little pinked points shed all over everything. I also don’t like to work with unwashed fabrics. There are so many chemicals which give off smelly fumes when you iron them. And to make it all work together in a quilt top you can’t wash your yardage either.
I jumped on the Jelly Roll bandwagon a couple of years ago and bought a Swell Jelly Roll and matching yardage. The Jelly Roll fabric was very poor quality, rough and course. Not at all nice fabric for the money! The Swell yardage I bought along with it was much nicer. I put the quilt top together but I don’t know if I’ll finish it since I’m so disappointed with the fabric.
So I’m a bit leery of precuts. I worry about what quality I’m getting and also that it’s difficult to prewash.
Karen in Breezy Point
I think I am undecided on this one. I have cut my own strips just so I could make a “jelly roll” pattern and didn’t have the right jelly roll on hand to make it. On the other hand, I love the convenience of the strips already cut (accurately!)so I can sew, sew, sew!
Karen in Breezy Point