My previous post says it all. I have lost my freedom due to having to work for a living (boo hoo for me). I have been quilting since I started working, just not as much as I did while on hiatus. The one thing I haven’t made time for is to post anything about it. The Jellyroll Quilt Along is one of those quilting things that I have kept up with in the sewing department, but I didn’t even have the time to upload the pictures for the last four of them to flickr to be considered for the giveaway drawings until a couple of days ago.
The challenge of the Jellyroll Quilt Along is choosing the fabrics to use for each square. Some of the squares have been simpler than others. The third square is a fairly simple design, but I like the way mine turned out.
Jelly Roll Quilt Along Square 3
With the fourth square I wanted to make sure that it was more random looking and not too uniform. Again, I am pleased with the finished square.
Jelly Roll Quilt Along Square 4
The fifth square is one of my favorite ones so far. It is called “chain link” by its creator and looks stunning when done in mass with all the same squares and corresponding sashing and borders in a full quilt. You can check out a sample at the designer,Emily Herrick’s blog, Crazy Old Ladies Quilts (just scroll down the page a bit).
Jelly Roll Quilt Along Square 5
The most recent square includes a fussy cut from fabric I hadn’t originally included in my stash for this project. The pink background matched the pink in one of the fabrics so I thought it would be a nice accent for this square. I already used some fussy cut squares in a previous square and didn’t want to use the same fabric for the focal point of this one too. I love the way the butterfly just pops out at you.
Jelly Roll Quilt Along Square 6
Some of the fun of doing all of this is to imagine what it will look like with sashing and borders as a whole quilt. Each time I pick out fabric for the current square I like to lay out all of the squares I have already done to use as a reference for picking out fabric for the current square. I want to make sure they don’t all look the same and that I am using a wide variety of the fabrics I have chosen for this quilt.
Monday the 24th is the next time a pattern will be revealed. I am looking forward to then for square 7!
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