JELLY ROLL JIVE JOURNEY, et al

 

Yesterday I opened my very old  blue batiks 

jelly roll; (click to see color chart)

and separated all the shades 

using 

↧↧↧↧

Rose's  published tutorial on the Moda website...

and separated and cut per instructions...

And this morning....

I sewed that l o n g --l o n g-- long

first row following her instructions...

I am a bit "squirrel-ey" after that

sewing stint--but, I did take a couple of

breaks and used pen and paper to

check off where I was.

P H  E  W  !!!!

Tomorrow I shall iron all those seams open...

[and then most likely take a little nap;)))]

I am using this jelly roll as a "test run"

before I use my cherished 

"Whimsey Wonderland" jelly roll and

charm pack...

I need to SEE 👀👀👀

how it turns out...

I made a regular jelly roll race 

with the cheddar and blue roll

and it's okay, but not really 

to my liking:

It's okay, but I don't like how the colors

all got "glommed" together...👿

I may cut this into placemats....or

something...

😥😩😬😭

S  I  G  H

Anyhow, I began searching for different

ways to sew a jelly roll after this..

and one 

without a whole lot of cutting 

because

I feel if you are using a pre-cut 

why

cut it a lot more????

and...

I came up with Rose's tutorial.

I saw the lovely strippy quilts she had

made on her blog...and felt I would

like to try to make one for myself.

My own lap quilt which I have used

for 12 years is beginning to really show

its age....so, I want another for

my daily use...

At first reading of her tutorial I was all "at sea";

but after  CAREFUL re-readings a few

times I began to understand it better.

And so, this is a test case in progress...

STAY TUNED....

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Snow Days

Schools closed both yesterday and today...

We got 20+" from the blizzard!!

Tom pushed the snow away from our sliding

glass door and our front and garage doors..

that made us feel better until

and our plow guy could come and clear

 the driveway and our front walk.

Our street has only had one plow run and 

our Town crew is pretty pressed to get all

our streets cleared out...I hope the 4 of them

were able to spell each other...

You can see how the snow drifted

right up to our windows here,,,

It is still only in the high 20's today --so not much

melting going on despite the bright sunshine...

AND......

The forecast is for more snow tomorrow...

will this Winter ever ease up?????

It's been a good ten years since we've had

to deal with these snowfalls...

I hope wherever you are if you had to deal

with these blizzard conditions that you all

came out safely...

hugs, Julierose

La blageuse

(jelly-rolling-euse)