A couple of weeks ago, just before my holidays, I was on Pinterest and came across a post about making a Jelly-roll rug. That is all it took for me to be bitten by the bug.
I am always looking for ways to help use up those scraps of fabric that are hard to fit into a quilt, like the older type themed type fabrics with beige backgrounds and characters like bears or bunnies, and sometimes angles or rag dolls.
I am always looking for ways to help use up those scraps of fabric that are hard to fit into a quilt, like the older type themed type fabrics with beige backgrounds and characters like bears or bunnies, and sometimes angles or rag dolls.
So, I got online and ordered a pdf version of the pattern and had it printed within minutes. The next day I was sorting through my scraps for difficult to use up fabrics. The pattern calls for two jelly rolls. When I looked it up online, I found that two rolls would measure about 50 meters.
By the time I sorted through what I had pulled out and cut the strips, I had just enough. I pulled from my scraps of cotton batting and started cutting them into strips too.
Do you like my pile of fabric strips? This is the pile after I sorted out the colours in the order that I wanted them with a general order of starting with the lightest fabric and working out to the darkest. This is the pile of fabric strips flowing on the floor as I sewed all the strips together using a mitered seam, like you would use to make a binding.
Thus far it has been fairly easy. I am taking my time going through the steps, as I work on many other things that need to be done around here.
I can't wait to see how the colour choices turn out. I am thinking that this rug pattern would work with just about any type of fabric colours and combinations.
Have you been bitten by the jelly-roll rug bug yet!!!
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