{"id":53239,"date":"2021-06-20T07:04:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T14:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=53239"},"modified":"2021-06-14T13:59:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:59:27","slug":"starting-gelato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/starting-gelato\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Gelato"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53182\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210614_111907_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53182\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210614_111907_wm-sm-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"Gelato Jelly Roll\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210614_111907_wm-sm-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210614_111907_wm-sm.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gelato Jelly Roll<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A long time ago, in this galaxy, Friend Julie gave me a jelly roll. I don&#8217;t usually like jelly rolls, but I like this one.<\/p>\n<p>One reason I like it is that the serrated edge isn&#8217;t deeply serrated, so the width is actually pretty close to 2.5 inches. Also, the strips seem to be pretty much cut on grain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53207\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53207\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210606_071908_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53207\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210606_071908_wm-sm-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"Molly's Jelly Roll Top - June 2021\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210606_071908_wm-sm-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210606_071908_wm-sm-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210606_071908_wm-sm.jpg 807w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Molly&#8217;s Jelly Roll Top &#8211; June 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/sew-day-june-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sew Day<\/a>, Molly was working on a jelly roll quilt. She also didn&#8217;t want to cut up the jelly roll into squares so she was using the strips almost as is. She made a cut in the middle where the color really started to change and inserted a KFC fabric.<\/p>\n<p>Molly&#8217;s quilt got stuck in my mind and I couldn&#8217;t get it or the jelly roll in my workroom off my mind. I tried to stay focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/finished-scrap-dash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scrap Dash<\/a>, but the jelly roll kept creeping in.<\/p>\n<p>One good thing about Sew Day is that I get to be inspired by projects on which other people are working. It is also a good thing about the guild.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53184\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210614_111749_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53184\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210614_111749_wm-sm-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"Gelato Start - June 2021\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210614_111749_wm-sm-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210614_111749_wm-sm.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gelato Start &#8211; June 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Almost as soon as Scrap Dash was ready to be quilted, I opened the Jelly Roll and started putting strips on the wall. I want to add the background to the outside of the strips.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t realize the fabrics were ombre! This makes the project much more interesting. Just putting them on the wall is exciting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53183\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210614_111834_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53183\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210614_111834_wm-sm-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Gelato Jelly Roll Open\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210614_111834_wm-sm-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210614_111834_wm-sm-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210614_111834_wm-sm.jpg 874w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gelato Jelly Roll Open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am starting out keeping the strips in order. I may move them around later after I see what I have. I am also planning to use the Art Gallery fabric I used as a background for Scrap Dash as a background for this quilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, in this galaxy, Friend Julie gave me a jelly roll. I don&#8217;t usually like jelly rolls, but I like this one. One reason I like it is that the serrated edge isn&#8217;t deeply serrated, so the width is actually pretty close to 2.5 inches. Also, the strips seem to be pretty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/starting-gelato\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starting Gelato&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[496],"tags":[310,316,331,252],"class_list":["post-53239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-color","tag-gifts","tag-piecing","tag-project-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53239","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53239"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53247,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53239\/revisions\/53247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}