Pam & Nicky Lintott
JELLY ROLL
QUILTS
the
Classic
COLLECTION
Create Classic Quilts Fast with 12 Jelly Roll Quilt Patterns
For Michael
Who loved our quilts and
accumulated many.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Jelly rolls never cease to inspire us. Over the past eleven years we have made lots of quilts using jelly rolls and have designed many different ways to use them. This book is no exception.
There is always something about a jelly roll that says, ‘what if we did this’ or ‘what would happen if we tried that’. Are we ever going to tire of these bundles of inspiration! As mother and daughter, we work really well together, as when one of us gets too immersed in one thing, the other comes up with an innovative idea that turns things around. We think this is how we got started on this book on quilts using classic blocks. You might be wondering exactly what we mean by ‘classic’ but there is nothing too technical about it; they are the classic blocks that we all grew up with, that are well known in the quilting world and have been used and played around with for many years.
In this book we have started with a ‘classic’ we know and love – Log Cabin – and using the jelly roll, have come up with slightly more modern version we’ve called Dawn Chorus. Some designs, such as our Neapolitan quilt, are easily seen to be a ‘classic’, a design readily recognised, and using the subtle colours from a new fabric designer this quilt easily finds a place in our modern world. Lime and Soda, however, would not be easily recognised as a Nine-Patch quilt. We love the classic Nine-Patch as you can have such fun playing around with it and for this quilt we made our Nine-Patch blocks and then cut them up – we really are quite mad!
For our bargello quilt, High Seas at Hastings, we simplified the design to make it much easier to piece. It is made from just one block that is easily put together. It goes together beautifully and opens up lots of new design possibilities. Our Birdsong quilt is made up of six different bird blocks. This quilt only just made it into our idea of ‘classic’ blocks, but it’s so sweet how could we leave it out? We had such a good time tweaking the designs to make them jelly-roll friendly and we just love the result.
Dresden Carnival shows a great use of a jelly roll, as we managed to create three different styles of Dresden Plate blocks – all from one jelly roll. This quilt is so bright and pretty and you are sure to have real fun making it. The last quilt in the book, Russian Dance, is a Double Wedding Ring quilt and it was certainly our biggest challenge. We wanted it to be as simple and easy to piece as possible and tried many different methods. The quilt is made from just one block and we hope you like both the technique and the finished quilt.
We hope you enjoy our designs as much as we enjoyed making them for you.
Pam and Nicky
Getting
Started
WHAT IS A JELLY ROLL?
A jelly roll is a roll of forty fabrics cut in 21⁄2in wide strips across the width of the fabric. Moda introduced jelly rolls to showcase new fabric ranges. How inspirational to have one 21⁄2in wide strip of each new fabric wrapped up so deliciously! If you want to make any of the jelly roll quilts in this book and don’t have a jelly roll to use, then cut a 21⁄2in wide strip from forty fabrics from your stash and you can follow all the instructions in just the same way. Our patterns are based on a jelly roll strip being 42in long.
WHAT IS A JELLY BABY?
A jelly baby is the same as a jelly roll, except there are only twenty fabrics cut in 21⁄2in wide strips across the width of the fabric.
IMPERIAL OR METRIC?
Jelly rolls from Moda are cut 21⁄2in wide and at The Quilt Room we have continued to cut our strip bundles 21⁄2in wide. When quilt making, it is impossible to mix metric and imperial measurements. It would be absurd to have a 21⁄2in strip and tell you to cut it 6cm to make a square! It wouldn’t be square and nothing would fit. This caused a dilemma when writing instructions for the quilts and a decision had to be made. All our instructions therefore are written in inches. To convert inches to centimetres, multiply the inch measurement by 2.54. For your convenience, any extra fabric you will need, given in the Requirements panel at the start of the quilt instructions, is given in both metric and imperial.
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