This week I made quilts for my first grandbaby and for myself. I used the Missouri Star Quilt Company's self binding baby quilt tutorial from youtube for the baby quilts and their Jelly Roll Race tutorial for my queen size quilt was inspiration. However I had to come up with my own pattern for the Jelly Roll Race. There are no clear directions for a queen size jelly roll race quilt that I could find.
My Queen Size Jelly Roll Race Quilt.
What you need: 3 Jelly Rolls (I had two, the third is on order now that I know better)
Backing
Binding.
I followed some obscure directions that said they started with 60 jelly roll strips sewed end to end on the bias. You can see the Missouri Star Quilt Co. tutorial on youtube for how to do this. Basically you put one strip over the other making a 90 degree angle and then sew corner to corner making a 45 degree seam. I ended up with a quilt that lays over the edge of my mattress with about 2 more inches needed to cover from bottom edge to bottom edge across. It was a least 20 rows short to go to the top. I knew the length would be short and the pattern addressed this by saying they pieced the needed rows individually to get the length. Here is my fix. Here is what 2 Jelly Rolls done this way got me.
My Adjusted Queen Jelly Roll Race Quilt Plan is:
Sew out two Jelly Roll Race Quilt Tops using 60 strips each. Attach the two together. You will have a quilt that almost covers your mattress bottom side to bottom side, just like the photos above, but you will have a really long quilt, about 100 inches long.
It will be a pain but I will mark the length I want and I will rip the seam out at that point dividing the piece into two quilts, a queen size and a piece I will use to embellish the back of the quilt to be similar to this quilts back by cutting the extra piece into enough piece to sew together making a stack that will reach from top to bottom. I will then attach the backing fabric as I did to this quilt.
My Queen Size Jelly Roll Race Quilt.
What you need: 3 Jelly Rolls (I had two, the third is on order now that I know better)
Backing
Binding.
I followed some obscure directions that said they started with 60 jelly roll strips sewed end to end on the bias. You can see the Missouri Star Quilt Co. tutorial on youtube for how to do this. Basically you put one strip over the other making a 90 degree angle and then sew corner to corner making a 45 degree seam. I ended up with a quilt that lays over the edge of my mattress with about 2 more inches needed to cover from bottom edge to bottom edge across. It was a least 20 rows short to go to the top. I knew the length would be short and the pattern addressed this by saying they pieced the needed rows individually to get the length. Here is my fix. Here is what 2 Jelly Rolls done this way got me.
The quilt underneath is queen size, in this photo and the one below you can see I have about 4 inches and about 2 inches on each side, uncovered. I can safely put a 5 inch boarder on for a perfect width.
This length is with one jelly roll top starting with 60 strips from two jelly rolls and piecing the extra 20 across the top to lengthen the quilt. It still did not quite make it to the top of my existing quilt.
(This is why I am going to do this a different way next time, see the tutorial in the next post for results)
My Adjusted Queen Jelly Roll Race Quilt Plan is:
Sew out two Jelly Roll Race Quilt Tops using 60 strips each. Attach the two together. You will have a quilt that almost covers your mattress bottom side to bottom side, just like the photos above, but you will have a really long quilt, about 100 inches long.
It will be a pain but I will mark the length I want and I will rip the seam out at that point dividing the piece into two quilts, a queen size and a piece I will use to embellish the back of the quilt to be similar to this quilts back by cutting the extra piece into enough piece to sew together making a stack that will reach from top to bottom. I will then attach the backing fabric as I did to this quilt.
I have not decided on how I will bind it or how I will put the boarder on. I have a mini charm pack that I am thinking I may use for corner blocks and I will just run a solid boarder between the corner block. I will most likely buy a 4th jelly roll and use it to bind the quilt as well as to make pillow shams. I can use the mini charms on the shams as well. I will post the tutorial when I get back to this quilt.
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