Sunday, March 4, 2018

Scrumptious Scraps Quilt-Along - Change for a Jelly Roll!

Hi, all!

Welcome back, to the final Sunday for the Scrumptious Scraps Quilt-Along!  From the comments and emails I've been getting from you all, this year's quilts have been a big success - many of you have made your own versions or been inspired to add them to your own bucket lists.  I love to hear that!  Our final guest post is this week, from my good friend Emily of Em's Scrap Bag. If you haven't seen her blog before, you are missing a world of wonderful scrappy quilting advice and inspiration!  And she makes the most beautiful artisan soaps - their names sound good enough to eat!  And best of all, she is the brains, hands, and heart behind Quilty Hugs for Happy Chemo, one of this year's charities for Hands2Help.  So now, from the multi-talented Emily, comes her tutorial for Change for a Jelly Roll.  And remember, hang around until the end, when I'll announce the winner of last week's giveaway and you can leave a comment for this week's scrappy giveaway!

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I love this time of year and Sarah's Hands 2 Help. I am so thankful for her and you, who read her blog. Your generosity never ceases to amaze me as boxes upon boxes of quilts arrive at my home full of love for those fighting cancer. I could in no way help so many if it were not for this outpouring of quilts. So it is with great pleasure I present this scrap friendly tutorial.


My strip bin could barely be contained so I chose to design a coin quilt.  I call it Change for a Jelly Roll.  If you click on the pictures it will enlarge them so you can better see the measurements. For this quilt you will need 2 1/2 yards background, leftover bits of jellyroll strips to equal about 620", and a bunch of random strips. (precise I know!)

From your background fabric cut:

Nine 3.5" x width of fabric strips. Sew these end to end and sub cut into six 3.5" x 60.5" strips.

Three 11.5" x width of fabric strips. Sub cut these into two 4.5" x 11.5" rectangles, four 5.5" x 11.5" rectangles, and twenty 3.5" x 11.5" rectangles.

Sew your jellyroll pieces end to end along the 2.5" side until you have a strip at least 605 inches long. Sub cut this into ten 60.5" strips.

Sew your random strips (any width) into strata that measure 12" wide.


Make as many of these as you need to create six 6.5" x 11.5" strata units, nine 4.5" x 11.5" strata units, four 3.5" x 11.5" strata units and four 2.5" x 11.5" strata units.


Following the diagram below, sew strata units between background units make two of these rows. (Row type A)


 Following the diagram below, sew strata units between background units make one of these rows. (Row type B)


 Sew 5 of the jellyroll strip units together. Make two of these.


 Sew the strata row type B between your jellyroll rows.  Then sew one row type A  to the top and the other to the bottom.


And there you have it - a quick, cheerful quilt that hopefully made a dent in your scrap bin!


Thank you Sarah for allowing me to contribute. Thank you in advance to everyone who donates a quilt to Quilty Hugs. They are truly appreciated.

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Thanks for the great inspiration AND tutorial, Emily!  Wow wow wow!  Are you all as excited by this pattern as I am?  I don't know about you, but my string bucket is running over, and this looks like it could be just the thing to put a BIG dent in it!  

And now for the winner of last week's scrap package giveaway...


Congratulations, Shirley!  I'll be contacting you by email to get your snail mail address!

And now, one final scrap package giveaway to end our Scrumptious Scraps Quilt-Along!  Just leave a comment below with some bloggy love for Emily and her tutorial, and let me know if you want to be included in the giveaway.  Be sure to leave your email address  so I can reach you if you win!  I've responded to all the comments left so far, so if you haven't received a response so far it's a good bet you're a no-replyblogger!

And here's an important reminder - next Sunday this year's Hands2Help Charity Quilt Challenge begins!  Be sure to drop by - and hopefully sign up to participate - because there will be a giveaway (not scraps this time!) for one of our early participants!

Hugs!

Sarah

32 comments:

  1. Great use of small pieces with a modern look quilt. I like it.

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  2. Love this quilt pattern - such a great way to utilize those scraps!! I would love to be in the drawing.

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  3. Nice quilt to use up those 2 1/2 inch straglers.I would like to be in the drawing.

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  4. Another great tutorial and a new to me blog to explore. Thanks for sharing and for the chance at some of your scraps.

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  5. What a great use of those strips! I can’t wair to read more of Emily’s blog. Count me in for the drawing! radosevichr@hotmail.com

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  6. Great twist on the Jelly Roll Race and Coin quilts. We have recently made 3 Jelly Roll quilts in my church group and still have oodles of 2.5" strips. So, we'll give this variation a try. I'd like to be in the giveaway please. sjvonfumetti at yahoo dot com

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  7. I'm not in love with Jelly Roll Race quilts but this one I love. It can even be made with binding's leftover. Great idea. Thanks for the inspiration. ;^)

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  8. What a fun scrap buster Emily, thank you! Scraps are awesome:)

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  9. I love the way the horizontal strips and vertical strips play together.

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  10. Great way to use up those jelly roll pieces! Giveaway? sure I would like to be included. delch81@gmail.com

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  11. Would love to be included! This is a great way to use s scraps! Thanks

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  12. Would love to be included! This is a great way to use s scraps! Thanks

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  13. Thank you, Emily, for creating another fun scrap busting quilt pattern! I really like how you combined a few ideas together into a cohesive pattern.

    I'd like to be included in the giveaway. Thank you for the opportunity!

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  14. What a great use of scraps! Lovely quilt!

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  15. That's a bright and energetic quilt, Emily !! thanks for the tutorial. I have two quilts already started for H2H this year !!

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  16. Congratulations Shirley! (Me trying not to be jealous.)
    Loved your quilt recipe, Emily.
    Hugs to you three

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  17. Looks like a quick and easy quilt, Emily! Thanks for taking the time to write up the tutorial for us all.

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  18. What a fun quilt! Can't wait to wade into the strip bin to make this.

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  19. What a great pattern....always great to see something new to do with those 2 1/2 “ scraps mccutchenm@yahoo.com
    Would love more scraps. Can’t wait to see what you do with bin C scraps

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  20. It is a lovely, happy quilt!

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  21. I totally totally love your scrappy happy quilt. I would love to try this cheerful pattern. You must be one cheerfully scrappy happy quilter, Emily :)

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  22. What a quick and clever way to use leftover strips! Please put my name in the drawing for your lovely scraps!

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  23. Thanks for all the scrumptious and scrappy ideas!

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  24. A great idea and tutorial for using some of those strips up.

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  25. I've been following Emily's blood for a while. I would love to win some scraps.

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  26. What a great idea for a Scrappy quilt - and so pretty too! I would love scraps! I would love to make this strata quilt! Thank you, Susan

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  27. Another great scrappy quilt! Love it!

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  28. Great tutorial Emily, and a beautiful quilt. I love the name of your quilt. Thank you for sharing.
    Thank you Sarah, for another chance to win some of your scraps.

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  29. What a creative quilt perfect for scraps. Just found your site and I’m glad I did. Look forward to following.. 14606bia@msn.com

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  30. Love the quilt. I got 33 pounds of scraps at a garage sale last summer and have been using them up slowly. Would love to add some of your scraps to the mix, so please enter me to win some. Thanks for all you do for us. browne426@hotmail.com

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  31. So bright and cheerful! After finally retiring and moving closer to daughter and grandbaby, I thought I'd have more time to quilt--but I'm busier than ever! At least I'm getting the sewing room cleared and organized so I can begin. This looks like a good pattern to get my feet wet again! And since I'm on a fixed income now, I have put my self on a fabric diet. No more buying anything but batting until I make a dent in all the fabric I have. Keyword: buying. No reason I can't win fabric! lol Thanks for the pattern and the opportunity! Glad I found your blog!

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