Repurposing a Jelly Roll Failure
This was one of my first quilt tops, it was a good exercise, the promise of a quilt top in under an hour. If I remember correctly, it took an hour and a half. Now what to do with it, because it was fast but it didn't spark joy, so it sat in the stash for this past 10 years and I'm trying to deal with my stash before cutting into the new projects. A friend of mine had suggested that I make, 9 patches, when I started quilting. I was distracted by all of the other patterns, I never got around to it, this was my opportunity. The unimaginable was done, it needed to be taken apart in three piece strips, then reassembled into 9 patches. I wasn't too precious about it, I was pretty sure that the seam allowances weren't accurate, and there was ruffling on the batik strips for some reason (shrinkage?). The white jelly roll was one with pinked edges, which I will never purchase again. I'm on the fence about purchasing jelly rolls after taking this one apart, the...
