{"id":12502,"date":"2012-02-28T06:17:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T13:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=12502"},"modified":"2016-08-26T11:19:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T18:19:30","slug":"renewed-jelly-roll-race-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/renewed-jelly-roll-race-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewed Jelly Roll Race Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jelly<\/a>
Jelly Roll Diamonds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After cutting what seemed like a zillion diamonds last week, the picture(left) is what resulted. There are a lot of diamonds. As I mentioned, about 158. It would be nice if that left corner was filled\u00a0 with diamonds as well. I know I can’t have everything, though, and I am not about to sew another Jelly Roll Race top!<\/p>\n

DH figured out how many I will need to make a quilt top as well as the layout. YAY! So glad I married someone who can do math. I was thinking of putting the question (whether there is a formula for laying out diamond quilts) to The Young Man’s Geometry teacher, but haven’t yet.<\/p>\n

\"Leftover<\/a>
Leftover from Jelly Roll Race strips<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The only scrap of any size at the end, aside from shards, was the weird wonky shape I show on my cutting mat.<\/p>\n

I was ready to move forward and just toss the scraps when it occurred to me that I could piece together the scraps, mosaic quilting style, and make a few more diamonds. I might need them. I might not need them. You never know.\u00a0 The scraps might just be fun to sew together or I could make some cool do Donation blocks. A little too wild? Look for more on that.<\/p>\n

\"Jelly<\/a>
Jelly Roll Diamonds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saturday, I flailed around. DH and I went around a few times about the number of rows and columns. His first calculations rendered a verdict of\u00a0 10 rows by 9 columns (remember that the second and every other row would have 9 rows and 8 columns), which left me with a really long skinny piece, though I wasn’t sure HOW long or HOW skinny, because I hadn’t put sashing on yet. I was also sick (yes, again!) and tried to take it easy. I don’t feel like I really accomplished much on Saturday, but it was required for the process, I think.<\/p>\n

\"Sunday<\/a>
Sunday Work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sunday went much better. I didn’t have a headache, which was a bonus. The corner is the hardest part to figure out and the fact that I was adding sashing added to the trickiness. I bought a 1.5″ strip cutting die for my Go! cutter and cut 1.5″ strips from the Pure Elements linen I had. Good thing, because I have a lot of it and used up about 1.5 yards so far. Julie of Intrepid Thread will be getting some business from me to replace that fabric. I need it for the A-B-C Challenge.<\/p>\n

The photo, left, shows sections of the quilt sewn together. It is going much more smoothly after getting the weird shapes on the right hand side mostly finished. I was sorely tempted just to sew the thing together in long rows across the piece from right to left, but know I would be hating myself midway through, thus the chunks.<\/p>\n

\"Sashing<\/a>
Sashing on diamonds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And for those of you who are curious about the sashing, I put it on to many diamonds at once. Cutting the strips with the Go! Cutter really made my life easier. I cut 5 strips at a time and then sewed as many diamonds as I could to each strip. It isn’t that I can’t cut strips; of course I can. The Go! Cutter just made my life a lot easier.<\/p>\n

Once I had strips of sashing, I lined up the first diamond, folding back the sashing to make sure I had placed the diamond low enough on the strip so that the sashing would fill the entire angle.Then I sewed, one after another as close together as possible so I would waste as little background fabric as possible.<\/p>\n

[BTW, that is my hideous ironing board cover. If any of you have a store nearby that carries Polder ironing board covers with a grid pattern, leave a comment or let me know. This one I got off Amazon and it is too thick aside from being not my color. I will be your new best friend if we can work out some sort of arrangement for you to get me one.]<\/p>\n

\"Right<\/a>
Right Corner detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As usual, I wanted to get a lot farther along. I am past the flailing point; I am past the figuring point and now I am just matching seams and rearranging diamonds. I’d like to be done with this project. I will finish it, but I am so ready to move on. No more Jelly Roll Races for me!<\/p>\n

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After cutting what seemed like a zillion diamonds last week, the picture(left) is what resulted. There are a lot of diamonds. As I mentioned, about 158. It would be nice if that left corner was filled\u00a0 with diamonds as well. I know I can’t have everything, though, and I am not about to sew another … Continue reading “Renewed Jelly Roll Race Progress”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[331,353,252,425],"class_list":["post-12502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-piecing","tag-process","tag-project-quilt","tag-renewed-jelly-roll-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}