The teacher quilt was finished, with two whole days of wiggle room before the deadline! Can you believe it?
I used the jelly roll race method to create it. The general idea is that you connect all of the strips from a jelly roll into one gigantic strip. Then you use this ingenius fold and sew method to shape it from a strip to a long skinny rectangle to a stumpier and stumpier rectangle. Finally you end up with a quilt top.
Here are several tutorials on how to do it:
- Crafty Garden Mom
- Missouri Quilt Company (this one is a video)
- 1 Choice 4 Quilting
This is the back. Oh, and those are The Husband’s feet. I read on a blog somewhere recently (maybe even today?) that people find feet in quilt photos to be annoying. Wha? Why would anyone care? Anyway, I don’t have any photos of the front that are feet-free, and the quilt is already in it’s new habitat. I hope you are not offended.
I do have one feet-free photo, but not of the front:
You can see in this photo that there is a red stripe down the side of the backing. I miscalculated the width of the backing a teensy weensy bit. The red was meant for a bias binding (because that is what I prefer) but instead I made straight-grain binding and used what remained to flesh out the back. I actually like the way the back looks a lot better with the red stripe so it was a happy accident.
The quilting is simple loop-de-loops. I used the strips to guide me in the size and placement. No marking necessary. Woot!
Have you tried a jelly roll race quilt?
PS – were you offended by the feet?
Horribly offended. And the only thing you can do to correct that is to have the husband come on your next podcast and explain his indiscretion.
PS – I like the cheerful colours of your teacher quilt. Great job!
Great quilt, can’t imagine any one being bothered by the feet. I don’t tend to notice. I suppose you could always crop it to take care of that though if you want to please everyone.