Noodles?

I have to tell you ladies something I found really funny!

I haven't been around the group in quite a while and I haven't really
gotten to do much sewing in quite a while. But I have found this
weekend that I have a little extra time on my hands, being off work
for a while to be with my son while he recovers from surgery - so I
thought I would work on sewing something.

Today I had some time to wonder around Hancock's for about 45 minutes
and thought I would treat myself to a few fat quarters, since I
haven't purchased any in O M G over a year! Anyway, I found these big
round things in color groupings called Noodles. Now I remember seeing
something about these somewhere before, maybe for making string
quilts? Old age has got the better of my brain and I can't remember.

So I thought, no problem, I'll just pull up RCTQ when I get home,
Search the postings for "noodles" and surely I will find my answer.

ROFLMAO!!!!!! All I have found so far in 3 pages of results, are
recipes, conversations about how to cook noodles, what to eat noodles
with, when to eat noodles..........

Pretty funny ladies - one would think that the second most favorite
topic of the quilters on this group..... would be food!

Ok, so can someone please help me, refresh my memory, what really
cool, really easy thing was it that I saw or heard you could do with
these bundles of fabric called "noodles?"

Thanks in advance, your old friend in Houston,

Tina

I found these big round things in color groupings called Noodles. [...]
So I thought, no problem, I'll just pull up RCTQ when I get home,
Search the postings for "noodles" and surely I will find my answer.

ROFLMAO!!!!!! All I have found so far in 3 pages of results, are
recipes, conversations about how to cook noodles, what to eat noodles
with, when to eat noodles..........

We were in a fabric shop recently where I saw one of those for the
first time. Marion called it a "jelly roll" which I guess she got
off this group. What you will find on googling for *that* I can't
imagine. The ur-meaning is *not* about food.

I still don't know what you're meant to do with them. The ones I've
seen had well-coordinated colour choices. How many FQs does a bundle
correspond to? The price is about 6 or 7 times the price of an FQ.

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CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts

On Jan 16, 7:02*pm, Jack Campin - bogus address
wrote:
I found these big round things in color groupings called Noodles. [...]
So I thought, no problem, I'll just pull up RCTQ when I get home,
Search the postings for "noodles" and surely I will find my answer.

ROFLMAO!!!!!! *All I have found so far in 3 pages of results, are
recipes, conversations about how to cook noodles, what to eat noodles
with, when to eat noodles..........

We were in a fabric shop recently where I saw one of those for the
first time. *Marion called it a "jelly roll" which I guess she got
off this group. *What you will find on googling for *that* I can't
imagine. *The ur-meaning is *not* about food.

I still don't know what you're meant to do with them. *The ones I've
seen had well-coordinated colour choices. *How many FQs does a bundle
correspond to? *The price is about 6 or 7 times the price of an FQ.

==== j a c k *at *c a m p i n . m e . u k *=== *http://www.campin.me.uk ====
Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557
CD-ROMs and free stuff: *Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts

I'm not really sure, but the ones I saw today were $26.00 USD !!!!!
And the label said 2.5 yards..

But I think you are correct in that where I originally heard about
these, was "jelly roll" so I will try searching the group for that
instead of "noodles" and see what I can come up with!

Thanks Jack!!

Can't help with the noodles, but is SO good to see you back. I was just
thinking about you the other day and wondered where you've been. I miss
you.
Gen

"Tina" wrote in message
...
I have to tell you ladies something I found really funny!

I haven't been around the group in quite a while and I haven't really
gotten to do much sewing in quite a while. But I have found this
weekend that I have a little extra time on my hands, being off work
for a while to be with my son while he recovers from surgery - so I
thought I would work on sewing something.

Today I had some time to wonder around Hancock's for about 45 minutes
and thought I would treat myself to a few fat quarters, since I
haven't purchased any in O M G over a year! Anyway, I found these big
round things in color groupings called Noodles. Now I remember seeing
something about these somewhere before, maybe for making string
quilts? Old age has got the better of my brain and I can't remember.

So I thought, no problem, I'll just pull up RCTQ when I get home,
Search the postings for "noodles" and surely I will find my answer.

ROFLMAO!!!!!! All I have found so far in 3 pages of results, are
recipes, conversations about how to cook noodles, what to eat noodles
with, when to eat noodles..........

Pretty funny ladies - one would think that the second most favorite
topic of the quilters on this group..... would be food!

Ok, so can someone please help me, refresh my memory, what really
cool, really easy thing was it that I saw or heard you could do with
these bundles of fabric called "noodles?"

Thanks in advance, your old friend in Houston,

Tina

On Jan 16, 6:29 pm, Tina wrote:
I have to tell you ladies something I found really funny!

I haven't been around the group in quite a while and I haven't really
gotten to do much sewing in quite a while. But I have found this
weekend that I have a little extra time on my hands, being off work
for a while to be with my son while he recovers from surgery - so I
thought I would work on sewing something.

Today I had some time to wonder around Hancock's for about 45 minutes
and thought I would treat myself to a few fat quarters, since I
haven't purchased any in O M G over a year! Anyway, I found these big
round things in color groupings called Noodles. Now I remember seeing
something about these somewhere before, maybe for making string
quilts? Old age has got the better of my brain and I can't remember.

So I thought, no problem, I'll just pull up RCTQ when I get home,
Search the postings for "noodles" and surely I will find my answer.

ROFLMAO!!!!!! All I have found so far in 3 pages of results, are
recipes, conversations about how to cook noodles, what to eat noodles
with, when to eat noodles..........

Pretty funny ladies - one would think that the second most favorite
topic of the quilters on this group..... would be food!

Ok, so can someone please help me, refresh my memory, what really
cool, really easy thing was it that I saw or heard you could do with
these bundles of fabric called "noodles?"

Thanks in advance, your old friend in Houston,

Tina
LOL, just when one would think there's nothing new...
Thanks for asking!

http://www.quiltingbydesign.net/quilting-with-noodles/

" Collecting and/or stashing fabric noodles is becoming a hot item in
the quilting world because there are so many practical uses for these
noodles. A few ideas for using noodles in your quilting include:

* Use them to make bindings for quilts (and to give a quilt some
"zing", use a variety of colors and/or textures from your noodles to
bind a single quilt!),
* Cut them into smaller pieces and use the smaller pieces in
quilts, such as 2.5¡å squares,
* Use them as sources of your stash to appliqu¨¦,
* Use them as the whole noodles to make a "noodle quilt",
* Use them in a "braided" border,
* Use them in the "Tessellating Stars" pattern,
* Use them to make log cabin blocks,
* Use them to make rail fence block,
* Use them to make piano key borders,
* Use them in Half-Square and/or Quarter-Square Triangles,
* Use them to make diamonds using the LeMoyne Star pattern,
* Use them in "I Spy" quilts,
* Use them in a "Lasagna" quilt,
* Add them to your stash for future projects."

Colisa

There are loads of patterns these days that call for "jelly rolls", and I
even bought one where you use the jelly roll strips to make stars. I haven't
made the pattern yet, but I can definitely see the benefits of purchasing
pre-cut strips.

Trixie

"Jack Campin - bogus address" wrote in message
...
I found these big round things in color groupings called Noodles. [...]
So I thought, no problem, I'll just pull up RCTQ when I get home,
Search the postings for "noodles" and surely I will find my answer.

ROFLMAO!!!!!! All I have found so far in 3 pages of results, are
recipes, conversations about how to cook noodles, what to eat noodles
with, when to eat noodles..........

We were in a fabric shop recently where I saw one of those for the
first time. Marion called it a "jelly roll" which I guess she got
off this group. What you will find on googling for *that* I can't
imagine. The ur-meaning is *not* about food.

I still don't know what you're meant to do with them. The ones I've
seen had well-coordinated colour choices. How many FQs does a bundle
correspond to? The price is about 6 or 7 times the price of an FQ.

==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk
====
Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739
557
CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic
fonts

Good to see you!
It's not something I would likely buy, so I'm no help to you. But I
never met a quilter who didn't like to eat :-) At our little Needlers
group last week, where we are supposed to bring a bag lunch, the
hostess put out a pot of soup, extra bread (crispy French baguette), a
chocolate-cherry fudge cake, a German gugelkopf cake, home-made
biscotti, a large 3-tiered platter of chocolates, and some salted
nuts, just in case we needed a little extra.
Roberta in D

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:29:40 -0800 (PST), Tina
wrote:

I have to tell you ladies something I found really funny!

I haven't been around the group in quite a while and I haven't really
gotten to do much sewing in quite a while. But I have found this
weekend that I have a little extra time on my hands, being off work
for a while to be with my son while he recovers from surgery - so I
thought I would work on sewing something.

Today I had some time to wonder around Hancock's for about 45 minutes
and thought I would treat myself to a few fat quarters, since I
haven't purchased any in O M G over a year! Anyway, I found these big
round things in color groupings called Noodles. Now I remember seeing
something about these somewhere before, maybe for making string
quilts? Old age has got the better of my brain and I can't remember.

So I thought, no problem, I'll just pull up RCTQ when I get home,
Search the postings for "noodles" and surely I will find my answer.

ROFLMAO!!!!!! All I have found so far in 3 pages of results, are
recipes, conversations about how to cook noodles, what to eat noodles
with, when to eat noodles..........

Pretty funny ladies - one would think that the second most favorite
topic of the quilters on this group..... would be food!

Ok, so can someone please help me, refresh my memory, what really
cool, really easy thing was it that I saw or heard you could do with
these bundles of fabric called "noodles?"

Thanks in advance, your old friend in Houston,

Tina

Hello Tina - wondered where you had got to!

I think Noodles were re-named Jelly Rolls by Moda who have a big range.

They are 2.1/2" strips cut the whole width of fabric and tend to be one
of each item in a range. There are 40 strips in a roll, although in the
roll I have there are 41!

There's a whole page on their site

http://mordac.unitednotions.com/stor..._simple_search
or
http://tinyurl.com/377obk

with patterns at the top and Jelly Rolls at the bottom.

I was lucky enough to win a roll in a magazine competition recently -
its the Moda Summer's Basket of Flowers, and actually spent yesterday
morning sorting out the colours for the pattern I'm using. Its called
Twin Stars and is from the Jelly Roll Quiilt book by Pam and Nicky
Lintott. You can look inside the book on Amazon uk, but onAmazon US you
can't see inside.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/07...03#reader-page
or
http://tinyurl.com/9vlsxf

I bought a book because I wanted to be sure I used a pattern where I
wouldn't run out 3/4 of the way through. The star patterns recommend the
use of a 'triangle ruler' though you can of course use the angle lines
on an ordinary one. When I was doing my first sampler quilt and was at
the stage where I believed everything the shop/teacher said, I bought a
special triangle thingy which has remained in its packet ever since as I
usually do my half square triangles using the 'put 2 squares together'
method. However, I can now justify its purchase!

Jelly Rolls are so pretty that it was ages before I actually unrolled
mine. Here they are £26 each - which converts to $38, so yours are
c h e a p!!!

Hope Billy is recovering and glad that your health has improved.

Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin



Tina wrote:
I have to tell you ladies something I found really funny!

I haven't been around the group in quite a while and I haven't really
gotten to do much sewing in quite a while. But I have found this
weekend that I have a little extra time on my hands, being off work
for a while to be with my son while he recovers from surgery - so I
thought I would work on sewing something.

Today I had some time to wonder around Hancock's for about 45 minutes
and thought I would treat myself to a few fat quarters, since I
haven't purchased any in O M G over a year! Anyway, I found these big
round things in color groupings called Noodles. Now I remember seeing
something about these somewhere before, maybe for making string
quilts? Old age has got the better of my brain and I can't remember.

So I thought, no problem, I'll just pull up RCTQ when I get home,
Search the postings for "noodles" and surely I will find my answer.

ROFLMAO!!!!!! All I have found so far in 3 pages of results, are
recipes, conversations about how to cook noodles, what to eat noodles
with, when to eat noodles..........

Pretty funny ladies - one would think that the second most favorite
topic of the quilters on this group..... would be food!

Ok, so can someone please help me, refresh my memory, what really
cool, really easy thing was it that I saw or heard you could do with
these bundles of fabric called "noodles?"

Thanks in advance, your old friend in Houston,

Tina

I think Noodles were re-named Jelly Rolls by Moda who have a big range.

They are 2.1/2" strips cut the whole width of fabric and tend to be one
of each item in a range. There are 40 strips in a roll, although in the
roll I have there are 41!

Great explanation. Thanks.

Jelly Rolls are so pretty that it was ages before I actually unrolled
mine. Here they are £26 each - which converts to $38, so yours are
c h e a p!!!

Mary's Patch in West Calder (West Lothian, Scotland) has them at
16 pounds.

They may have potential for making a stuffed model of the Flying
Spaghetti Monster.

==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ====
Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557
CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts

Tina, great to hear from you. Hope B is okay and the surgery was
minor. G

Noodles is one name for the 2 1/2" strips. Jelly Rolls is Moda's name
for a set of 40 strips, all from one line (if there are more than 40
fabrics in the line you miss a few, if there are fewer you get
duplicates to make up the 40) Bali has "Bali Pops", and so on.
Different names for the same thing.
There were a couple of books out a while back called "Noodle Soup" was
the first, author is Debbie Caffrey. The second was "Open a Can of
Worms". She also has other books and patterns that are based on 2 1/2"
strips.
When the "jelly rolls" started to be popular, many authors jumped on
the band wagon and there are lots of patterns and books now available
for these pre-cut strips. Because you generally get a variety of
fabrics the resulting quilts are scrappy looking, but are coordinated
because they are often one line of fabric. Of course you can cut your
own strips of any fabric for these quilts too.

This brings up something that has been a topic on the "Quilt
Designers" list..... the proliferation of "precut fabric bundles" (5"
charms, jelly rolls, sweet rolls, layer cakes, and more). Are these a
passing fad or here to stay? why do quilters like them? are they
really worth what you pay for them? (figuring a per yard basis) and so
on.

I love the charm packs but haven't gotten into many of the others.
What do you all think?

Have Fun,
Pati, in Phx

On Jan 16, 5:29*pm, Tina wrote:
I have to tell you ladies something I found really funny!

I haven't been around the group in quite a while and I haven't really
gotten to do much sewing in quite a while. *But I have found this
weekend that I have a little extra time on my hands, being off work
for a while to be with my son while he recovers from surgery - so I
thought I would work on sewing something.

Today I had some time to wonder around Hancock's for about 45 minutes
and thought I would treat myself to a few fat quarters, since I
haven't purchased any in O M G over a year! *Anyway, I found these big
round things in color groupings called Noodles. *Now I remember seeing
something about these somewhere before, maybe for making string
quilts? *Old age has got the better of my brain and I can't remember.

So I thought, no problem, I'll just pull up RCTQ when I get home,
Search the postings for "noodles" and surely I will find my answer.

ROFLMAO!!!!!! *All I have found so far in 3 pages of results, are
recipes, conversations about how to cook noodles, what to eat noodles
with, when to eat noodles..........

Pretty funny ladies - one would think that the second most favorite
topic of the quilters on this group..... would be food!

Ok, so can someone please help me, refresh my memory, what really
cool, really easy thing was it that I saw or heard you could do with
these bundles of fabric called "noodles?"

Thanks in advance, your old friend in Houston,

Tina