Garden Trellis Jelly Roll Quilt Pattern
August 14, 2009 by admin
The project I am working at the moment is a jelly roll patchwork quilt. The jelly roll is a whole collection of materials cut into this size 40–2½"x WOF strips. They are rolled to make a circle and used all to make the quilt. I used a Heritage Moda Jelly Roll for my project as you can see on the picture at your left, and I’ve chosen the Garden Trellis patterns for it.
This is my jelly roll, as you can see in the picture the whole collection of material is being cut into 40–2½" strips for the length of the material. Usually one jelly roll is used to finish one quilt. But if you want to make an extra large quilt for your bed 2 jelly rolls would be necessary.
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The Garden Trellis should result like the picture below.
1.- The first thing you have to do is undo the jelly roll and separate the dark materials from the light ones.
2.- The next step is to combine the materials, one dark one light and sew together one one side. Leave a seam allowance of 1/4”. This is easy if you have a patchwork sewing machine, so just following the edge of the foot you will have the needed 1/4” seam allowance. Don’t rush in this step and try to sew fairly throw the strips of materials to avoids posterior mismatch when putting the whole jelly roll quilt together.
3.- When you have all the strips sew in pairs of one darks, one light is time to make some tubes. Take two of you strips pairs and face them in so the dark color would be in front of the light color, both facing the right side in. Then stitch together leaving the same 1/4” allowance. The result would be a tube of material. I know it sounds weird at this stage, but when is time for cutting you will see how easy is to put it together. You could actually make a jelly Roll Quilt in a weekend.
4.- When you have made all the tubes is time to start cutting. You are going to need a triangle shape ruler and a cutter to get the triangle out of the jelly roll quilt. The Omnigrid Right Triangle – Up To 12" Diagonal is the perfect ruler for this job. Cut triangles out of the tubes using the specific measurement of the ruler Omnigrid 98L. You should get 8 of each tube. When you are done, notice that the triangle open up into squares.
To start cutting line up the 3 1/2 inch line along the centre seam and the 7 1/2 inch along the bottom seam. Cut the sides of the triangles, making sure you have put the ruler perfectly straight and holding firmly the cutter . If you pick up each triangle and unpick the edge of the triangle you will have a perfectly formed square, like I mentioned before. Press open to the seam allowance to the dark color material.
5.- The nest step is starting to sew the blocks together. Pick four squares that combine nicely together to form the first block. We are going to start by sewing two together facing opposite the lines the picture represents as shown on the picture above of the quilt. Stitch the other two in the same way and put together the two to create the block. Try to pin together always light and dark colour, do not put two darks or two lights. At this point it might seam like a puzzle but the result of this quilt is simply amazing.
Once you have put together all the blocks, arrange the and sew together to create the quilt. Once finish, add a thin border and a larger border to enlarge the size or the quilt with your favorite materials. After that all is left to do is to sandwich the wadding or batting with the front and the backing material of your choice. This is a difficult patchwork project for a beginner, but I think with a bit of help and imagination anybody can do it. Put the wadding or batting underneath the front and the back material right side down underneath the wadding, use some safety pins or special fabric spray glue for patchwork to make sure it won’t move while you are quilting it.
6.- Quilting the patchwork project: The next step is to start quilting, you could do it by hand using 100% cotton thread for quilting, or by sewing machine. That’s your choice. The last bit is to add the sashing at the end to finish the quilt and you are done.
See more instructions on how to make this lovely patchwork quilt with jelly rolls in this fabulous book.
I personally recommend this book because it has some graphic instructions a lot of tips and ideas on how to make things easier. I am rather proud of my quilt, is not finish as you can see in the picture above, but I am getting there. Unfortunately I can’t seem to stop quilting so I go from one project to another one.
Quilting utensils you will need for the Garden Trellis Jelly Roll Quilt:
Olfa RTY-3 DX 60mm Deluxe Manual Rotary Knife Blade Fabric and Cloth Cutter RTY3
3M CraftMount Spray Adhesive – Repositionable – 200ml
Coats Cotton Thread 100 Mt Crisp White
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