Wednesday 13 February 2013

My first work in progress ....

WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced
eeeeeppppp my very first WiP post. I have been following these for well over a year now and never plucked up the courage to join in. The resolution for the new year was to throw caution to the wind.
So here I am, and more to the point what is in progress?
This is one of the many things I have been working on. The pattern is from the book, Two from one Jelly Rolls:



I have never used a jelly roll before but had a lovely thirties repro jelly roll I bought in Birmingham a few years ago. I so wanted a pattern to use it and found the perfect one in this book.
You take four strips of the same colour, I chose red and add a white strip to either side. You then take the remaining jelly roll strips and sew two of them to either side of a white strip. These units are then subcut as follows:




You end up with a million or so of each, a slight exaggeration but not much ... these are then joined together to make a nine patch.

You then cut this up down the middle (twice) so you end up with a million teensy weensy little blocks like this:


Yep you get the picture. I am loving doing it but it is taking a long time. I took up patchwork because I had RSI and couldnt do the fine needle work i used too. This means I can't really do the marathon subcutting needed to speed this up.
I will just pick away at it though.


5 comments:

  1. great fabric, I have that book too!! I have opened it many times, but havent started making anything from it.

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  2. I have that book too and I've done a lot of the quilts in it! Love the fabric you chose.

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  3. Can't wait to see the finished quilt. So far, so cute!

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  4. Looks great so far! I'll have to chech that book out:)

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  5. Good luck with your quilt- I love jelly roll quilts and those books are great!

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