How To Make A Jelly Roll Rug Lay Flat

A flat bed machine is ideal but not all quilters have that kind of set up these days.

How to make a jelly roll rug lay flat.

But you can use more or less strips depending on what size you want your rug. You can either sew all of the strips together like making an oval shaped rug above or make it about 45 long by sewing the batting in each strip individually like kathy did on this rug. Finally live and learn. Fusible fleece or quilt batting.

The tutorials below would guide you into making a jelly roll rug with. Jelly roll of your choice. This pattern is super customizable supplies. It is just the curved edges where you are coercing the fabric around the curves that you have to remember to relax and just let the fabric guide itself around the previous row.

So i contacted roma the designer behind rj designs who created this fabulous pattern that transforms a 2 1 2 inch strip roll and batting into a fabulous colorful rug to see if i could do a tutorial. Pattern created by rj designs. Be mindful of what is going on on the back fo your jelly roll rug. The official jelly roll rug tutorial.

It s easy to make a rectangular shaped rug from a jelly roll or strips of 2 1 2 cut fabrics. I can barely scroll through my instagram feed without seeing a new version of one pop up. The biggest tip i have for making a jelly roll rug is to go slow and enjoy the process. It s not a hard project but it is time consuming.

I used 1 full jelly roll and the finished size was approx. You have sew all the strips together then bind them with the batting then sew them together and finally iron the rug. Learn tips and tricks of how to make a jelly roll rug. How to make a rectangle rug from a jelly roll.

The jelly roll fabric has an immensely enticing appearance because of its rolled appearance and fantastic color combination. The straight edges of my jelly roll rug lay flat easily. You basically can use anything to create a flat surface books foil roasting pans you name it. I simply used three plastic art bin boxes next to my machine and that allowed me to keep the rug flat as i was stitching it.

The jelly roll fabric has a host of uses one of which being designing them into pretty rugs that can be used as placemats table mats or coffee mats. Jelly roll rugs are all the rage.