How to Make a Jelly Roll Sizzle Quilt (with Free Pattern)
Image credit: Carol Thelen via YouTube
This awesome quilt idea by Carol Thelen on YouTube is a brilliant way to use your favorite jelly roll set. You can assemble your finished blocks in a lot of different ways that you please, and you can probably finish this within just a few hours, so this is definitely a great project to work on for the weekend. If you wanna give it a try, then go ahead and find a jelly roll to work on, or use your favorite set of fabrics and cut them into strips, either way, should work just fine.
Materials:
- 1 Jelly roll or 32 fabric strips @2½ inches wide (Fabric A)
- 2/3 yard of background fabric
- 5/8 yard of binding fabric
- 3¼ yards of backing fabric
Cutting Requirements
- Cut the background fabric into 31 squares @4½ inches (Fabric B)
- Cut the binding fabric into 6 strips @2½ inches wide (Fabric C)
Other Supplies Needed
- Marking pen, pencil, or chalk
- Ruler
- Needle and thread
- Scissors or rotary cutter and a cutting mat
- Iron, for pressing
- Sewing machine
- Pattern (Click here to download the pattern for free)
Directions:
Step 1
Sew together two different fabric A strips so that they measure 4½ x 42 inches, then make sure to use a ¼ inch seam allowance, and press the strip set nicely. Subcut the strip set into three rectangles at 4½ x 12½ inches, then draw a line on the wrong side of the fabric B squares diagonally from corner to corner and layer a fabric B square on the left end of the jelly unit.
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Step 2
Sew them together along the drawn line, then trim off the excess fabric ¼ inch away from the seam allowance, and press nicely. Continue to build the rest of the blocks, then assemble them together, and press every now and then. Piece the fabric C strips end to end, then quilt, and bind as desired.
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