However, on with the details of my make. At our patchwork group meeting last week I was introduced to the 'jelly roll race' quilt which entails sewing all forty strips of a jelly roll together end to end, folding, cutting and repeating until you have a random quilt top which is reputedly very quick to make. There are tutorials on You Tube and lots of pictures on Pinterest if you want to see what people have made. I'm wondering if the effect would be as good using fat quarters (I have lots!) and cutting them into 2 1/2 inch strips but as that requires lots of measuring and cutting I might give that a miss on a large scale. However I did a few calculations and worked out (hopefully correctly) how many strips I'd need to cut to make a randomly striped bag and as you can see my maths was right. I finished up with a piece of fabric of the right size to make a handy shopping bag and I've shown both sides in the photos because of course they are different (there is no seam along the bottom) - the piece of striped fabric finished at approximately 16 1/2 x 25 inches. Fabrics used were all from my collection of batiks and I quilted in the ditch along each seam before making the bag.
