Hello friends, as I said at the end of my last post I was going to attempt to add quilting to my repertoire. So I did just that. I’m staying at my maternal grandparent’s house while they are away so I had a lot of sewing space so quilting seemed like the best use of said space.
I decided to start small by using jelly rolls and the jelly roll race. Usually the jelly roll quilts have just a plain colored back, but I couldn’t pick between the Zoey and the Christine jelly rolls so I decided to make both and make it into a double sided quilt.
So lets start.
Firstly, I must report, that despite the simple instructions given by Jenny in the video I managed to fuck up royally on the very first step of making this quilt. I started with the Zoey and a Property Brother’s marathon in my grandparent’s living room.
I laid out my strips,
And proceeded to sew all my strips together, right side to right side on the 45 degree angle. Just, on the wrong 45 degree angle.
This is when I was so proud:
And then this was where I realized I fucked up:
I was kind of devastated to say the least. I kind of abandoned the project and pouted for a few hours about it while watching more HGTV and drinking copious amounts of coffee. I then spent about two and a half hours seam ripping out all the work I had just done, and sewing the strips back together the right way. I then ended up with this strip:
I sewed to the point that I had a really long, four strip wide quilt thing before stopping for the night to get some sleep. (I actually did not fall asleep at all that night and decided at around 10 it wasn’t worth faking anymore and went out with my best friend to do Christmas shopping.) Later the next day I sat back down and got back to it.
I was really pleased with the symmetry that my quilt had going for it.
When the quilt top was finished it was 32 strips across and made a perfect square and I love it. It was worth the utter frustration.
It went back to my mom’s house for two days so I didn’t get to start my second jelly roll till Sunday but I got the entire thing put together in one day, like a proper jelly roll race quilt top is supposed to be done.
I sewed the pieces all together into one strip the right way the first time, no fuck ups at all.
I sewed the strips together and cut, folded sewed and cut etc. until,
I had a lovely, 32 strip, perfect square quilt top. I laid the two side by side to see how they look together and I am in love.
I need to decide if the stripes will run the same way on both sides or not, I need to buy batting to go between them and I need to buy a nice cream colored fabric to become the quilt binding. I’m probably not going to put on an additional border or anything onto the quilt beside the binding because even if it’s kind of a small quilt I really like that it’s a perfect square.
And I’m pleased to report that even with the wasted thread from my first mess up, and having to rewind my bobbin about 4 times, I didn’t even use an entire spool of thread. There is barely enough thread left on my spool to use for any project ever, but that’s irrelevant because I made two quilt tops with one spool of thread. This leaves me two whole spools (because I bought 3 before I started) to use for quilting and for another project down the line.
Alright, I don’t know when my next post will be or what it will be regarding but keep on the look out friends.
Cheers.
And Now Sewing 