Once upon a time.... I won this jelly roll. Zippity Doo Dah designed by Sandy Gervais. It was the very First Jelly roll to inhabit my stash. It was a treasure and so cute all rolled up. I marveled at it for a long time, then one day knowing that there was no going back once it did this ..... I opened it up!
Have I told you before that I love red, white and blue ??
YES I do!
Early in the spring....
I came across this site
www.jellyrollquilters.com and guess what they were doing, a Jelly Roll mystery quilt. It was sure to be beautiful they promised so I jumped on the bandwagon. Soon I had 2 friends who are experienced quilters on the band wagon too.
I know some of you quilters are probably jelly roll pros and use a lot of jelly rolls, but for me when I buy fabric I always buy a little extra.... just in case. With a jelly roll.... there is no extra. I love all the different strips of fabric but you get 40 strips of 2 1/2" wide fabric, that's it. I was a little hesitant making the first cut, but this project was a great confidence booster.
( This translates into MORE reasons to buy Jelly rolls !)
HORRAY for Me!
In the process of the mystery I discovered.... I am not a mystery girl. I like to know how it is all going to look in the end. I am definitely a visual person... See it then do it. I had a hard time deciding what to use for the background fabric. I wondered if I had sorted my strips "correctly". So long after the mystery was revealed and my two other quilting friends had their mystery all pieced together and were
Glowing that they had accomplished the task at hand..... I started because they kept asking me.... "Have you started yet???" Now mine is finished sans the borders. Hopefully that will be added in the next few days .
The strips were separated into 3 bags for months.
Finally after some serious goal setting and a few deep breaths, months 2 and 3 of the mystery became touchable blocks.....
Once I had these done I was thrilled.
Pretty easy blocks but still thrilled!
Month 4 created more hesitance and a few more deep breaths were needed because I had to cut the strips for this month IN HALF to 1 1/4 inches . After I had accomplished those Sweet little 6" Log Cabin blocks.... I was in Love! This is the first time I have ever done a Log Cabin block. I was so proud of myself... They turned out perfect and so like a proud momma with a camera I thought they needed their own little .......
FALL photo shoot.
zippity DOO DAH !
It is all together!
All in it's flimsy glory!
We had show and tell at our quilt meeting last week.
Here are the quilts of my two quilting friends
Linda used Papillon by Three sisters/ MODA
Jeanine used Lollipop by Sandy Gervais/MODA
They both own long arms.... theirs are all nicely quilted!
Thanks for sticking with the proud momma: )
SEW LONG!!!!!
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pretty please.
It would make my day!
janita
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