Jelly Roll Quilt Pattern Ideas & Books

Showy rolls and other precuts are all the rage in the quilting world these days. They save us time, they're fast, they're easy, they're fun and they certainly are addictive. But if you're looking for ways for how to use them and to make beautiful quilts and need some inspiration. I've got a couple of books here that you might be interested in. The first one is "Quilting with Precuts and Shortcuts" by Terry Martin. And this one has some wonderful ideas, some very very nice quilts, something a little bit different than the standard frame around a four patch kind of block that is so popular. I really like some of the ideas that she's got in her books, and she does a very good job of combining the different precuts. The jelly rolls with the layer cakes, with the charm packs, with the honey buns. The honey bun being the smaller brother of the jelly roll. The jelly roll being the strips, the charm pack being the five-inch squares, layer cake being the 10 and a half inch squares, everything that's precut and pre-coordinated to make our life easier. So this is a wonderful little book that I think you will enjoy for working with all of those. Another one, that's good for all of the precuts is by Sue Pfau P-F-A-U. I hope I'm pronouncing her name correctly and it's called "One Bundle of Fun". And I really like this particular book. She's got some wonderful little ideas for her quilts and fresh new patterns. And up in the upper right-hand corner, it tells you if it's for layer cakes, if it's for a jelly roll pattern or if it's for fat quarters. So, actually that one's on the left-hand side. So in the upper corners it does tell you which medium that you'll want to use for that particular quilt. So I think that Sue has done a great job with her book, "12 Patterns". I think it'll definitely give you some good inspiration. I also liked "Jelly Roll Quilt Magic" by Kimberly Einmo, very, very innovative book. And what I like with her book in particular, is she goes into a lot of detail about what is the difference between the different precuts. She gives a nice tutorial on specialty, triangles and also rulers and also how to make flying geese from a jelly roll and then how to put different basic units together into blocks. She's just a wealth of information and then she's gone into some rather complex designs and simplified them using stripped piecing and the precuts to just make some absolutely stellar quilts that I just think you'll have a lot of fun making everything from this one that's got applicate and annoying on point setting to a wonderful little Christmas quilt. I love her little Christmas tree border, that's all done with the fat or with the jelly rolls. So pick up her book and be prepared to sit down with a cup of tea or a glass of wine and get some wonderful inspiration. Finally, I wanna introduce you to "Jelly Roll Jazz", this is by Jean Ann Wright. It is exclusively for jelly roles. And she has everything from the strip type of quilt where it's strictly strips all the way up to the French Braid, which can be used not only in the quilt itself, but also for wonderful boarders. And one of my particular favorites is her block quilt and the way that she did her setting so that it's offset. So you don't have to match any seams in this quilt. So that is a real time saver. And she also did a very innovative quilt using a log cabin block, with the piano border used as a sashing. And again, you don't have to match any seams when you put that quilt together. So I think the, each of these would be a wonderful addition to your library and I hope you have fun exploring the wonderful world of precuts.