The saga of the jelly roll race quilt continues. I checked out the video, and YES, she has you join all the strips together (jelly roll race technique)and then cut the first length (non-jelly roll race technique). The next step makes me shudder: To make this quick, like the jelly roll race, she takes the remainder of the long strip and sews it onto the first cut length. And you continue to do so until you run out of fabric.
That is a wonky quilt waiting to happen!
That first video was released five years ago and has 500,000 views.
In her favor and probably due to feedback from people, she released a SECOND video about two months ago. In it, she suggests measuring the strip lengths, cutting them to a specific size, and pinning them. So, not so fast now! She also sewed it in sections of six rows and then sewed those sections together.
So yes - she designed a very cool pattern using jelly roll strips, but it's not the jelly roll race quilt, although she still calls it that and uses the same pattern.
As I mentioned, just because you can doesn't mean you should, but I'm surprised it took so long to release a second video and that there is no reference to what she did in the first one. Now, she is only sewing 24 strips together, so there isn't too much room for wonky. My friend had many more than 24, and it went bad!
There were a couple of other things I didn't like about the videos - I mentioned that she didn't chain-piece when sewing those strips together, she didn't clip the threads (GASP), and she mentioned using a shortened stitch length. Since she uses an industrial machine, she said to use 15 stitches per inch. Many people sew with a newer machine where the stitch length is measured by the length of the stitch in mm - i.e. 2.0 and she didn't address that.
Notice that I'm not mentioning who this person is. I don't think it's fair for me to do that. But I hope you will gain some knowledge that just because someone puts a video on YouTube, it's not always the right or correct way to do things. While I always say there is no right or wrong way to make anything, there are some guidelines that one should follow. And randomly sewing strips together is something I would never do. I won't even sew a border on a quilt without measuring and pinning. ONE border, never mind multiple strips.
OK—enough of that for now. Does anyone know who created the jelly roll race quilt? I know—I tried to Google it, and well, I'm still looking. Everyone has a video on how to make a jelly roll race quilt. Another day, I'll share what I know about resizing these quilts.
I had to rearrange the morning walks as I had to stop at the bank, so Miss Murphy had to go in a new direction. While this is exciting for her, it's not always the best. She works well with routine, and new things require many more stops.
Several years ago, I would take her through the park, and we would play with obstacles. She would jump up on this bench, walk the length of the bench, and turn when asked. We rarely do that. By rarely, I mean we might go past that bench once or twice a year, and every time she sees it, she gets excited and jumps up! She would have fun with agility, but getting her to a class was too hard, and I didn't like the instructor. Wait, that's not true. I did like the instructor a lot, but Murphy needed more than what she was giving her to do. She's like the gifted child who is made to endure things they already know.
MOM -- this is child's play! |
The guard dog |
MOM -- I'm on guard duty! |
A cocoon for the pantry moths |
Mom -- you're doing a good job - keep it up |
The "to be quilted" pile |
More community project quilts |
A book about one person's Camino journey |
The peony in bloom |
Magnificent colors!!! |
The rose bush is also in bloom |
The dogwood shrub |
What is this tree? |
I got two of the class follow-ups out the door, so that was good. One of them required finding samples and taking pictures, which takes time. When I look back at my day, I didn't seem to get much done, but digging out samples is a time-consuming job. I need to find a better way to arrange them or, once and for all, get all the pictures and store them so I can find them. That would be ideal!
If you have some spare time this afternoon, be sure to pop over to Facebook and watch my Facebook Live on machine applique. It's going to be loads of fun!! If you can't catch it live, the video should be available next week. Just cut and paste this link below.
https://www.facebook.com/events/971964474506082
On that note, I'm out of here. I have lots to get done today, and I have another quilt on the long arm, but I'm not sure I'll have time to finish it—it's a big one.
Have a super day!!!
Ciao!!!1
Looks like a flowering dogwood - cornus Korda
ReplyDeleteIt is Kousa dogwood, or a Japanese dogwood. Cornus kousa
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