Our quilting group, the Rotary Cutters, decided on Jelly Roll Rugs as our first project for the new year. I had two similar Jelly Rolls of 25 strips each and combined them into one long strip.
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After this step, the fabric gets rolled onto a pvc pipe awaiting the next step. Luckily my husband had a pipe laying around and asked our neighbor to saw 2.5" lengths which I could give out to all our group members at our meeting on Wednesday.
We are now awaiting our rolls of precut batting which are ordered from Temu to continue stitching the fabric and batting into a long tube.
In order to create the tubing, we also bought the Clover Fabric Tube Maker which just make the process so much easier than folding by hand.
Now, you don't have to buy all these nice to have's. You can buy your own fabric and batting and cut them to 2.5" and 2.25" respectively over the width of fabric. If you want to get a Clover Tubing tool, they are available here on Clover and Stitch's page.
I joined a Jelly Roll Rug group on Facebook and found very handy tips as does Uniquely Mateo.
With the tubing you can create placemats, bags etc. in any shape or form with circular and oval shapes by far the favorite followed by rectangle mats. One thing to remember though is that they will slide on tile or wooden floors without something attached to the back to keep them in place, but placing on carpeted floors, no problem with sliding and it can then be used on both sides.
Below is a beautiful bag created with the tubing.
So watch this space as we proceed with our individual projects.
