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Jelly roll race quilt size chart.
A 2 5 jelly roll strip will be a 2 height strip with the seam allowance taken out.
I ll go through standard size quilt with the work around and then get to custom sizes.
The top should be longer than it is wide.
This is part 2 of our 3 part jelly roll race quilt series.
A formula to just figure out how many strips you need for your jelly roll race quilt is.
On scrap paper make two sets of labels a b and c.
And part 3 changing the size and determining the number of strips.
If you look around on the web for jelly roll race quilts you will see many a lot of.
Baby 20 strips or 1 20 strip jelly roll.
To convert your jelly roll race quilt top from horizontal stripes to diagonal strips.
To figure out your quilt size you can work backwards from that.
Inches wide x number of rows 40 strip number of strips needed number of rows is your quilt height divided by the height of your jelly roll ex.
Here a pdf file from liz katsuro that provides some great guidance on changing the size of your jelly roll race quilt.
So to make a quilt that looks like the jelly roll race but that is wider than 64 5 and thinner than 128 5 we have to do something else.
Let s say you want an 80 wide queen sized jelly roll race quilt and figure 80 double it 5x 160 320 640 1280 2560 so you need an initial mega strip that is 2560 long.
A standard jelly roll race quilt produces a quilt top that is approximately 50 x 64.
Lay your top on the floor with the strips horizontal.
Quilt in an hour.
Cut them into separate pieces.