Friday finish dissappearing jelly roll rails

Today I finished another mini quilt like I made a year ago.  I did a tutorial then of my accidental design.
Link to that tutorial is here 
The following photos show the way I did it this time............

 Start with 9 strips about 17" and sew them together thinking about where each strip will end up if you are making the mini quilt like the photo above.

Cut every other strip down the center.  Cut into blocks.

Lay out the 4" blocks to check the design.

This is the photo I put on instagram of quilting....I really look forward to the straight quilting 1/4" next to the seams.  For some reason...it makes me happy!!  I try to figure the best way so I can quilt in a continuous line as much as possible!

I will link with crazy mom quilts and freemotion by the river.

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

getting back to quilting

I have been away from quilting and doing other things with online classes.  I like to do a lot of different things so I jump from one thing to the next.  We have had many distractions like contractors here off and on over the past several months putting in new flooring, new showers, painting, etc.

AND then there is MARCH MADNESS!!  I love watching those basketball games!!

Here is a disappearing jelly roll rails I made this last week....I need to quilt it and then I will add more about it when I finish it.....

the next photo is background strips for Regatta quilt along..............

 In one of my online classes we had an assignment for Valentine's Day.  I did this heart in my Midori notebook with watercolor and acrylic paints.  I used white gesso on the backs of each of these pages.

 I ordered some Daniel Smith dot cards and I have been doing swatches with the colors. I have also been working with my Inktense pencils but no photos.

About food and WW lifestyle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Here are the plates from one of our favorite places to eat.  Can you guess where?

 The previous photo is from Sizzler (eating at a buffet is not very point friendly but I can keep the points within a good range by using my weekly points).........and all of this is so delicious!!

 Here is a photo of what I eat for lunch most days.  Joseph's lavash is 2 sp for one whole piece.  (I get this at Walmart)  And the Greek yogurt and turkey are no points.  I eat this with an apple and 1/2 banana.

 I will be linking to Linky Tuesday Freemotion by the River

Smiles and hugs.................Caryl

More Sunkissed placemats

 This week I finished two more Sunkissed placemats.  All four of them are different patterns.
This one I did the serpenine stitch to quilt through the front and back after sewing front and back right sides and turning.  I also used a 4.0 stitch to topstitch around the edge.

 This one is a quilt as you go design.  I quilted the top and batting and no quilting on the back.

 Photo of the beginning of quilting.  This is really fun to do!!

 Gudrun Erla of GE Designs is doing a sew along in her FB group.  I started this pattern in 2009 and put it away and just got it out this week to work on it.  I am using the Memento fabric.

 The last photo is the three fabrics I have chosen for another sew along I am doing.

I am happy to have finishes this week even though they are small projects.  I got out my peg stamps and did some stamping this week also as well as other quilty projects.  CREATE EVERY DAY.....that is what I strive to do.  I have a lot of choices of projects layed out and ready to go....and that makes it fun every day!!
Linking to crazymomquilts   finish it up Friday
and Freemotion by the River    Linky Tuesday

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Disappearing Jelly Roll Rails quilt

 A Friday finish this week........will link to finish it up Friday crazymomquilts...
I did the hand stitching on the binding this week while waiting at the hospital during my DH knee replacement surgery.

 I did a tutorial on making this quilt in an earlier post  http://carylquilts.blogspot.com/2017/03/disappearing-jelly-roll-tutorial.html

I used the binding tool for the first time and watched several videos for how to use it....

I mainly took the photos for myself to remember next time..........

I will also link with Connie at Freemotion by the River for Linky Tuesday.

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Disappearing Jelly Roll tutorial

 Are you looking for a project to use up some jelly roll pieces?
This is a tutorial and a story of how this quilt came about!!

Last weekend I was making a charm box mini quilt....very similar to the one I made last summer that was smaller...It is a pattern from Fat Quarter Shop....

AND I got an idea to use jelly roll strips.....so I started another project!

 I dug in my scraps and used 9 jelly roll strips, each about 17" long, and sewed them together...
I  put the zigzag strips at the 1st 5th and 9th positions....no particular reason, just balancing the look...
Then I cut down the center of every other strip starting with the first strip...
The above photo just shows the start of cutting one group....

Then I cut each of the 4 groups every 4" using my Stripology ruler....so I had 4" squares...
My idea was to use these 4" blocks and mix them with strips and squares.

BUT I started putting them in an alternating pattern and before long there was a pleasing pattern!
AND I ended up with a 14½" square miniquilt top!  Now to quilt it and bind it....
Smiles and hugs....Caryl