Jelly Roll Race 2

You may have heard of "Jelly Roll Race", well this is "Jelly Roll Race 2". Hi, I'm Jenny from Missouri Star Quilt Company and today we are filming the “Jelly Roll Race 2” video. Then one day this lady came into my store and said that she had seen the "Jelly Roll Race". Now if you haven't seen it, she checks out the description below because it's so fun and it's a great quilt, but she added a special touch to it. She made it with batiks and between each strip, instead of sewing it diagonally, she put a small square block. So she had this batik quilt with these black blocks appearing everywhere.

Like on the back of this one, we only used white and the

jelly

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we used today is called "April Showers" and it's from Bonnie and Camille and it's just beautiful. I mean it's really a fun

jelly

run. The fun thing about these quilts is that they are amazing basic quilts that you can make and use all kinds of fun things with and they look great with any fabric. So the hardest thing about Jelly Roll

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is to open this Jelly Roll. We all have a lot of these jelly

roll

s. We love them, but they are so cute and once you open them, they never go back.

So let's explain this to you very carefully. You just remove the tape, the elastic band comes with it and there you have it. No pain, she just walked out. So here we have the jelly roll and we are going to unwrap it just as it was wrapped. When you are going to sew your jelly roll

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you want to leave all your colors in the same places because, if you are like me and you go crazy and you don't want your colors to touch and you put your red here and a red one... you sew it in the end of the tail, when you put them back together, they line up.

So, we want to sew them exactly as they come off. So today to do this, what we're going to do is take our first jelly roll strip, right here, and we're going to cut eighteen inches off of it. Let me move this around so you can see it a little better and it doesn't have to be exact. It has to be on one side of the fold or the other. The reason we do this is because if you leave the jelly roll strip straight, all the squares will end up on the sides, like this, and so we don't want that to happen.

We want them to move and explode a little. So I'm going to measure about eighteen inches and cut a piece off. So once you're done cutting your eighteen inches, the only other thing I like to do is cut my edges and you can, you know, you can do it with scissors, you know, so, I like to make a little pile of them and just do it because I really don't want to mess them up. So I just take them and randomly, you know, give them a little bit, give them a little bit of cutting on these selvages.

You can do it with your rotary cutter or you can do it with scissors because I don't want to get those, the white pieces or the words, I just don't want to have to worry about that on my , when I'm sewing. So I'm going to cut them, like this. Okay, so once you're done cutting all the edges, you're going to make sure you have a bunch of two and a half inch squares because that's what we're going to place between each strip. Then we'll just head over to the sewing machine and start sewing. So I'm going to gather my things and I'm going to bring them all here and I like to have them next to me because you're really going to be sewing next to each other. next.

So first, what I'm going to do is place my two and a half inch square on top and I'm going to sew it. Then I'll take this out, open it up, and then place the next strip. So, make sure they are on the correct side. That one almost wasn't. Some of those whites on whites are a little harsh. Okay, now you don't even have to take it out, just take the end of the strip, make sure it's with the right sides and you'll put another strip in there. Then you need to trim that and you'll pop them as well.

So, every two strips you can chain a piece. And here's another one and then I'll grab the end and bring it over here and attach another block. And I'll take them out, I'll take my threads out of here and there we go. And then I'll open up my block, right here, and place another strip. And we're going to keep doing this until we've sewn them all together, end to end. This, this will give you more, a little over sixteen hundred inches of jelly roll strip. It's a lot of little strips, so we keep putting our little squares in there and we keep sewing them together.

Open it and attach the following one. This is one of those quilts you can't mess up, it's so adorable. You know, I actually have one that I like to show people because he was so crazy about the color not touching each other that I put them everywhere and a lot of the colors come together. But it's still cute, I mean, you really can't go wrong with this. This one is really fun. Alright, you're going to keep sewing until you have the entire jelly roll, the entire jelly roll sewn together with little squares sewn between each set of strips, like this.

I'm going to stop here and then show you how we move on to the next part. So, you're going to pretend that I kept sewing and sewed all of these together. So you have this long strip, like this. Do you see how long this lasts? I mean, it's just... and this is just a few at the top and you'll have tons more than this. You're going to have a giant pile next to you. So what you're going to do is find your last strip here and you're going to sew it right sides together, like this, and you're going to sew a quarter of an inch down one side.

Now, you can take your time and make sure there are no creases in the gelatin strip, but I like to do it quickly. So I'm going to go ahead and sew this because when they are, when you get to the end, sometimes you're going to have a crease, especially if you're like me and you're, you. Hurry. So, we're going to let this sew and sew these two right sides together, like this. I don't really worry about how the seams are ironed because I'm just sewing and some of the squares will be on the bottom and some on the top, but, if I see one I will, you, if I am, if I come closer one, I'll make sure it's on the dark side.

So you can see I'm almost at the end of this and you can see there's a little crease here, like this, and I did it on purpose because a lot of times we get to the end and there's a little crease, but I wanted to show you that I just take my scissors, I take them out, cut them, and then lay them flat so they are completely flat. You'll probably almost always have a small crease at the end of yours, unless you really take the time to go ahead and make sure there are no creases. I prefer to just cut the little fold at the end.

So you have these two strips, right here, that are sewn together and there are two of them and what I do next is, if I cut the fold, like this, and it's a little bit different, I'll take a minute and trim it, but you can also trim it at the end, If you wish. But then what you do is you grab your end again and bring it closer to the first one and join them together like this, and sew them together nicely. sides together and you're going to keep doing this. So you'll have four together, then you'll sew eight together, then you'll sew sixteen together and you'll end up with this quilt.

So let's go ahead and sew these two together again. This will give us four and you can iron it open if you want. It's, you know, it's one of those quilts that is very, very easy to make because it's whatever you want to make. I like to iron it last and then have all my ironing seams go in the same direction. So now I'm here at the end of this and I'm going to go ahead and cut that fold and you're going to continue sewing. So, we're almost at the end of these two of the rows of two that are sewn together and we're ready to sew four.

So, let me come here. Let me get this out of here, right here. Let's open this and see how we have four together? Then you're going to bring your end, again, over here and of course I would have sewn all my strips together. This will be a lot bigger when you do it at home, but I would, I'll just show you this so you can do it. So you're going to sew this together. You will cut the end off again and sew it once more and you will have a finished quilt. It's just amazing. So let's take a look at this one behind me.

You can see that, I mean, the colors are very well distributed throughout the quilt and the blocks appear randomly everywhere. So for this quilt we used a jelly roll. About a yard of white will make up all the squares and this first edge and this second edge are about four inches wide, so we're going to make eight strips around it. So a patio will also be your outer edge. We hope you enjoyed this tutorial on the second edition of the Missouri Star Quilt Company “Jelly Roll Race.”