Tube Quilting with Jelly Rolls

[Music] to quilting is a method of quilting that allows you to accurately create blocks such as half square triangles from strips of fabric it's also a fun way to use up some pre-cut strips of fabric so this is a jelly-roll that I have already started using that's why it's unrolled but jelly rolls are generally strips of two and a half inch wide fabrics by about 42 inches and then they can be a collection of a bunch of the same colored fabrics or fabrics of different colors or from a different collection so we're going to use some two and a half inch jelly roll strips today to make some half square triangles and then in extra block here at the end and do it using a method known as tube quilting so the first thing you have to do with tube quilting is you're going to need two pieces of fabric so for a half square triangle generally you have two pieces of fabric that are different prints so here is one print from my jelly roll I'm going to go ahead and grab these two are different we'll use these two right here so here are two different prints from our jelly roll fabric what I want to do is I want to take and lay these together right sides together then I'm going to take this over to my machine and I'm going to stitch using my quarter inch seam allowance and I'm gonna stitch on both sides essentially creating a tube got my edges lined up just under my presser foot go ahead and stitch so the longer the strip that you're using the more of the task or triangle or the more of the units that you can create from the strips so I actually just took one of my jelly roll strips and cut it in half so this is closer to about 21 22 inches than it is 40 inches so my pieces weren't exactly the same length I'm not super worried about that but once I get to the end here I do want to stitch the other side of my pieces as well essentially creating my tube so I'm just going to take it not even take it entirely off the machine or clip the thread just spin it around and now I'm going to go ahead and stitch on the other side Wow all right now I've stitched down both sides of my strips of fabric I can go ahead and trim off these extra little pieces of thread and now is where the fun part happens because we've essentially stitched this into a tube that unless we're going to turn it right-side out and use it for a strap of some kind we really can't do anything with it as is what we need to do now is some cutting so you're going to want to have a ruler that has a 45-degree line on it and you want to have the half of the ruler from the 45-degree line down longer than your fabric is so for me since I'm using two and a half inch strips of fabric this little six and a half inch ruler is plenty big enough for me if I was doing much wider strips of fabric I would want a larger square ruler what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my ruler I'm lining this 45-degree line up right along the seam line I just stitched on the top I'm going to go ahead and take my rotary cutter and cut off this corner this gives me a starting area so this little corner that I just cut off is extra so it's actually the edge where my fabric didn't line up completely well anyway so it's just a little throwaway piece now I want to take my ruler and I have my 45-degree line lined up along the seam line on the top I'm now going to take and move my ruler down so my 45-degree line is now lined up along the seam line here on the bottom go ahead and take my rotary cutter and cut and you can see from here now if I open up this piece I have a perfect little half square triangle now I can continue cutting and creating more half square triangles by simply taking my ruler moving it back up to lining that 45-degree line up along the upper line that I stitched go ahead and cut set that aside you can bring it down now to bottom again lining that 45-degree line up on the bottom go ahead and cut and just like that I am quickly and easily cutting out many half square triangles that are all the exact same size so however many how many half square triangles you get depend on how long if strips you had so you can see I still have enough of strip that I could keep going and keep cutting and again have a bunch of half square triangles that all come out to the same size so again this can be done with just two and a half inch strips of fabric we're using drell jelly rolls or you can use wider strips or you can do a combination of two and a half inch jelly roll strips and a background fabric to create a different look so here I have just taken two strips of jelly rolls I have lined them up with right sides together and I have stitched them together so I've got a much larger piece I then stitched that with right sides together with a backing or a background fabric piece that is the same width but is made from one single piece of fabric I can use the exact same technique now that I just did to cut more units again I'm going to start with my 45 degree line lined up along the upper seam line that I stitched I'm going to cut this away again this is my starting side so this is a throwaway piece here I'm going to take my ruler now I'm going to line it up along the lower seam line again that 45-degree line is on that lower seam line and now when I had mentioned that the thickness of strip you're using will dictate what size of square ruler you're using you can see here that my six and a half inch ruler is just barely long enough to be able to cut this so if your strips are any wider than this again you're going to need a larger size square ruler so I can make that cut there if I wanted to continue going again I just go back and forth lining my 45-degree line up with the upper lower upper lower moving it right along but you can see now rather than creating that half square triangle I've created another fun block where half of my square is created from those two strips of the jelly roll and the other half is created from my background fabric so if I were to make a bunch of these I could place them together and easily create another fun block such as this one here we even have an extra square and put all sorts of fun blocks together just quickly and easily by creating this tube now I am right-handed so this is how I create this tube is I start cutting from the right hand side and moving my way down if you are left-handed the technique is still exactly the same but you're just going to start on a different side so I'm just going to demonstrate the ruler placement because I don't think anyone wants to see me cutting my left hand but so rather than starting on the right hand side and cutting off here I would simply start on the left hand side use my rotary cutter cut right along here again that is my trash square or my starting square I would then move it down to the left or to the bottom and cut here and then this would become my half square triangle so you can do this technique whether you're right or left handed it just depends on what side of the tube you start on so next time you want to use up some jelly rolls and you either want to make a bunch of half square triangles or even some more complicated blocks try out this tube quilting method and create a bunch of half square triangles all at the same time

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Length: 8min 47sec (527 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 01 2018