Long Time, No See

It's been a while since I wrote a blog post, but here's my latest quilt...

approx 40" x 64"

Here's a closeup shot of the quilting, backing, and binding...

And here's how this quilt came to be...

I started out with a jelly roll...

Then sewed it together a la "jelly-roll race" style...

All sewn together...

It looked OK, but I wanted to try something different, so I Googled "jelly roll race quilt variations" and found one that looked like patchwork. There was no explanation of how the patchwork look had been achieved, so I just decided to cut my top into 2 1/2-inch strips like this...

But no matter how I rearranged those strips, I couldn't make it look very patchworky -- too many of the same squares wound up next to each other.

So I then decided to sew all of those strips using the same "jelly roll race" technique...

Here's what it looked like in progress...

And again, the finished product...

I like the way it looks, but I'll never use this technique again...not worth the trouble.