A Jelly Roll Quilt for National Jelly Roll Day!

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Saturday, September 17th is National Sew a Jelly Roll Day! What?! You didn't know that was a national holiday?! Well, it is!! Grab your strip rolls and let's sew something fun!

The Firefly collection sewn into a lap quilt using the Slice jelly roll pattern from Fat Quarter Shop
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I'm celebrating this year's National Sew a Jelly Roll Day with Fat Quarter Shop! They were so generous to send me a jelly roll of the new Firefly collection by Sarah Watts for Ruby Star Society, and a few coordinating fabrics too. (And there's a quick giveaway for a jelly roll of your choice over on my Instagram too!)

Firefly jelly roll by Sarah Watts for Ruby Star Society

Everything about this bundle is to drool over! The metallic stars on the black, the hot pink solid, all those turquoise and pinks in the jelly roll....swoon!

Firefly jelly roll by Sarah Watts for Ruby Star Society

I chose the FREE pattern called "Slice" from Fat Quarter Shop (get it HERE!). One jelly roll can actually make TWO lap-sized or baby-sized quilts!! 

Using a mini Oliso iron and wool pressing mat to press quilt blocks

The quilt top comes together super fast (in just a few hours!). Then I loaded it on the longarm with the metallic stars fabric for the back and Warm & White batting. (I really wanted to use black batting for this one, but I'm out!) I did a quick loop meander on it - inspired by the "Firefly" collection name!

Longarm quilting with a loop meander

The final touch was that hot pink fabric for the binding! It's actually called Berrylicious by Moda. I always machine stitch my bindings! (Tutorial HERE!)

Sewing the binding on by machine

It's like the perfect lipstick for the quilt! Yes, I sewed one of my satin quilt labels into the binding too!

Satin quilt label sewn into the quilt binding

I took the quilt with me on our vacation a few weeks ago to Minnesota, and found the coolest yellow flowers for a photo spot!

The Firefly collection sewn into a lap quilt using the Slice jelly roll pattern from Fat Quarter Shop

The flowers were almost like little yellow balls. Kinda like fireflies!

The Firefly collection sewn into a lap quilt using the Slice jelly roll pattern from Fat Quarter Shop

However, be forewarned. As soon as I finished taking the photos, I had a huge allergy attack! Lol! Guess the flowers didn't like me as much as I liked them!

The Firefly collection sewn into a lap quilt using the Slice jelly roll pattern from Fat Quarter Shop

Have you ever made a jelly roll quilt? Have you ever made a jelly roll quilt on National Sew a Jelly Roll Day?? This could be your year!!

The Firefly collection sewn into a lap quilt using the Slice jelly roll pattern from Fat Quarter Shop

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4 comments:

  1. Wow, what a great jelly roll quilt, Laura!!! Fuchsia is my favorite color--love the lipstick binding!!! Sorry about those yellow wild flowers! But they sure made a great photo!!!

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  2. Sorry about the allergy attack but you did get a great photo shoot out of it! Beautiful use of those fabrics, and I especially like the "zing" of the teal quilting thread against the dark fabrics!

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  3. Love your quilts. I use mostly jelly rolls, unfortunately I am low on funds this month. Beautiful work. Love them!

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  4. Who knew there was a National Jelly Roll Day. You are right, that jelly roll is so much fun with its adorable novelty fabrics. Pretty sure the yellow flowers in the photoshoot are goldenrod. Used to pick it for my mother and immediately sent it out of the house since it started a hay fever attack.

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