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The Flutterby Quilt
I have revised a pattern that uses 2 1/2 inch jelly rolls. Instead I wanted to use a (42 piece) 10" layer cake I just brought. There was only 2 or 3 prints that I liked, the rest was ugly as far as I was concerned. Will never buy another layer cake. I recommend cutting your own 10 inch squares. The jelly rolls you can kind of see what you are getting before buying but only makes a 6 1/2 square.
So using my layer cake squares, I cut my center 3 inch sq, then added 2 (3" by 3 1/2" long)sewn on each side of the 3 inch sq. On each side of this I cut 2 ( 3 1/2 wide by 10")to go on either side of the center strip and then trimmed the ends off. Now I snowball the top left and bottom right with 3 1/2 white squares with line drawn through the centers, sewn and cut off the corner leaving 1/4 inch seam. This makes an almost 9 inch square. Put these rows together so that you end up with the snowballed ends making a square too. Hope I haven't confused you too much. I will add an inner 2 1/2 inch border and 5 1/2 inch outer border. You may want to try this quilt. Sandy$ |
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If the pattern originally called for 2.5" strips, how did it handle the center square, which in your version starts at 3"?
(I don't buy precuts, but I do adapt patterns.) Nann On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 10:52:47 AM UTC-6, wrote: I have revised a pattern that uses 2 1/2 inch jelly rolls. Instead I wanted to use a (42 piece) 10" layer cake I just brought. There was only 2 or 3 prints that I liked, the rest was ugly as far as I was concerned. Will never buy another layer cake. I recommend cutting your own 10 inch squares. The jelly rolls you can kind of see what you are getting before buying but only makes a 6 1/2 square. So using my layer cake squares, I cut my center 3 inch sq, then added 2 (3" by 3 1/2" long)sewn on each side of the 3 inch sq. On each side of this I cut 2 ( 3 1/2 wide by 10")to go on either side of the center strip and then trimmed the ends off. Now I snowball the top left and bottom right with 3 1/2 white squares with line drawn through the centers, sewn and cut off the corner leaving 1/4 inch seam. This makes an almost 9 inch square. Put these rows together so that you end up with the snowballed ends making a square too. Hope I haven't confused you too much. I will add an inner 2 1/2 inch border and 5 1/2 inch outer border. You may want to try this quilt. Sandy$ |
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Hello Nann,
How I got the 3 inch center is because I inlarged the pattern, yet would fit within my layer cakes which are 10 inches sq. I did not use 2 1/2 inch squares like the pattern called for. Hope you can understand what I did. Sandy$ |
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On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 9:43:47 AM UTC-6, wrote:
Hello Nann, How I got the 3 inch center is because I inlarged the pattern, yet would fit within my layer cakes which are 10 inches sq. I did not use 2 1/2 inch squares like the pattern called for. Hope you can understand what I did. Sandy$ Makes sense! Nann |
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