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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 in 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.

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.

Seam Allowance

We cannot stress enough the importance of maintaining an accurate scant ¹⁄₄in seam allowance throughout. Please take the time to check your seams with the test in General Techniques.

Quilt Size

In this book we show what can be achieved with just one jelly roll. We have added background fabric and borders but the basis of each quilt is just one jelly roll. The size of our quilts is therefore restricted to this fact but there is nothing to stop you using more fabric and increasing the size of your quilt. The Vital Statistics in each chapter gives you all the information you need to enable you to do some simple calculations to make a larger quilt.

Scattered throughout the book there are features called Heirloom Quilt Ideas, giving suggestions on how you might alter the quilt designs. You would, however, need to amend the fabric requirements if changing the quilt layout.

Diagrams

Diagrams have been provided to assist you in making the quilts and these are normally beneath or beside the relevant stepped instruction. The direction in which fabric should be pressed is indicated by arrows on the diagrams. The reverse side of the fabric is shown in a lighter colour than the right side. Read all the instructions through before starting work on a quilt.

Washing Notes

It is important that pre-cut fabric is not washed before use. Save the washing until your quilt is complete and then make use of a colour catcher in the wash or possibly dry clean.

Specialist Tools Used

For cutting half-square triangles from strips we use the Multi-Size 45/90 and the Multi-Size 45/60 from Creative Grids, which have markings that refer to the finished size. If you are using a different ruler when cutting half-square and quarter-square triangles please make sure you are using the correct markings before cutting.