So for yesterday’s WIP Wednesday project, I tackled a quilt I’d named “Urban Cowgirl Around the World” and it turned into a completely different project. I had a trip around the world quilt in mind, combining an Urban Cowgirl jelly roll with a Bella Solids {warm} jelly roll. The color palettes aren’t an exact match, but they’re close enough to look good together. I’m not into matching anyway…I prefer coordinating palettes.
Instead, I decided to try the Jelly Roll Race (also called Jelly Roll 1600) method.
It’s a fast and easy method to whip up a lap-sized quilt in about two hours. Some tutorials say one hour, but two hours is more realistic. Still, how many other quilts can be made in two hours?
I can imagine all sorts of variations with this pattern. Given my considerable stash of jelly rolls, it’s very likely that I will be making one (or several) of these again.
As for this quilt top, I have half of each jelly roll remaining and I will probably use a similar method to create some borders (and save a few strips for a scrappy binding). And I’m going to have to rename the quilt. Jelly Roll Cowgirl? Urban Barrel Race? Urban Jelly Roll sounds like a city dweller’s muffin top, which makes me kinda like it best of all. 😉
Carla
These are fun aren’t they? It’s lovely. Enjoy quilting it
Scarlet
I’ve done this project a few times and it’s a great, quick one that pleases. I’ve started using 1.5-2 jelly rolls to enlarge the quilt a bit and it works out fine. Plus there’s usually enough leftover for a mixed-up binding as well. Thanks!
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