2 color Jell Roll Race ?
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2 color Jell Roll Race ?
I have a Winter Wonderland JR & would like to do a Race Quilt. There are 2 strips of each fabric, 22 cream & 18 red. I know normally you just go with sewing each strips as it is on the roll but that would leave me with a lot of fabrics together. I'm thinking of 2 20 pc rolls & mixing red, cream ,red, cream. Do you think this would give me a better mix? Straight off the roll all red are together & then all creams. Thanks for any help with my brain freeze.
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The nature of the JRR quilt is that you don't know what you will get until it's done. I suppose it might be possible to figure out at least roughly which fabrics will be adjacent to each other, but it boggles the mind. The beauty of using a jelly roll is that all the fabrics go together, so that means the final product should be pleasing. I think your plan of alternating strips is a good one, but you may still wind up with a lot of reds against reds and whites against whites, and I think that's okay.
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I did end up with groups of red & white but I just couldn't sew all the reds together then the whites. As I was sewing I thought I made a mistake but once I laid it out I quilted it I like it. Here's a pic.[ATTACH=CONFIG]530687[/ATTACH] Will be binding in red with white dots as I can't find the R/W stripe I know I have somewhere.
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