Quilt

Trying something new with my sewing, a quilt! I have been on a tear getting my bedroom actually decorated, with real pictures on the walls and curtains! Am so over the beat up rag tag blankets and bedspreads we have been using too.

I caught a video on how easy a jelly roll quilt is and was immediately seduced by pre-cut fabric and pre-selected color schemes, and that a near by quilt shop could take care of the actual quilting part for me. Of course I found some tiny reason the easy jelly race method wouldn't work for me. Oh no, God forbid a strip of fabric isn't anchored to a border! Nooooo!

I bought 2 Moda Fabrics Moon Shine jelly rolls, and 2 packs of white strips. To me foreeeeever to decide on the colors and prints. Holy crap. And I thought historical costuming was hard.

Here is my fabric laid out, in the order in which they will appear on my quilt. The fabric will form two sinusoidal waves on a white ground.



I laid out the center section to see how my waves would look, a 2" off sets. Too spikey, not enough gradual variation. To get the natural look I'd need to mathy out the slope of a sine wave and translate that into fabric lengths. Am not so sure I want to get that anal with my cutting.



In researching techniques I came across a method that sews the strips into circles, and you just cut the circle where you want, centering your design however. Will have to bugger around with it to get the slope natural looking. No precision measurement required.