JRR2 - Gradient batik color layout help needed

[Judy, USMC]

I had 2 pkgs of Stonehenge Sand & Surf strips. Each pkg had 2 of each od the 21 patterns in the collection. Almost 1/2 were teals and the other almost 1/2 were browns. I decided to pull the blatant blues to use in another project.

So now I have 4 strips each - of 9 different gradient colors and want to do a JRR2. Of these batiks #1 the lightest and #9 is the darkest. There are what I consider 3 lights, 3 mediums and 3 darks. I'm so afraid that if I don't lay them out right to begin with I will come out with blocks of the same colors on adjacent rows. I've been thinking about this for days and just confusing myself more and more. The best I can come up with is sewing in the following sequence 9-3-5-2-8-1-7-4-6 and then repeating.

I hope someone out there can wrap their head around this and understand what I'm trying to do. If there is another sequence you think would be better I'd love to know. Now I know why it is so much easier to use a full jelly roll with only a few duplicates in the sequence it comes off the roll!

Thanks for any help. My brain is fried on this one.

Here's the link to the strips ~ don't know if it will help: https://www.missouriquiltco.com/shop...f-stone-strips

[bubba]

You know what I would do? Make the Color Me Happy jelly roll quilt!! I did mine w/Downton Abbey but it would look great with what you have!

Here is the link....

Color Me Happy Quilt

[Jean Sewing Machine]

Sorry, not a clue how to make it turn out like you envision. Planning a JRR quilt seems to be counter to what these quilts do naturally, which is they defy planning and the colors are randomly placed. If you figure it out, please share, as many want to know how to plan these quilts! Good luck!

[Sylvia H]

Jean's got it right! There is no planning for JRR quilts. That's also why many don't like to do it, because the results are completely random.

[Judy, USMC]

Thanks, bubba ... I did think of that. I could easily go with the Color me Happy for the brown/tans. But then I run into the same problem. I have 4 stacks of fabric running from light to dark and don't think that running them in that sequence would look right. I would wind up with 4 light to dark sequences that would be a bit too block-ish (new word?) I'm going for a more random (yet planned) look.

Biggest problem would be that I've already sewn on the 2 1/2" blocks at the end of each teal strip for the JRR2 so I'm committed to that. Oh my aching head ....... lol

If I ever get this figured out be sure I will share. It will save someone a lot of headaches.

[Sylvia H]

Okay, there may be a way to do it. I have it visualized in my head - hope I can write it out. You won't be able to do the quilt by connecting all the strips together. You will have to make each quilt strip individually.

First, you will have to figure out how wide a JRR2 quilt turns out to be. In the directions, "JR strip" refers to the strips from the JR you are using. "Quilt strip" refers to the strip you make by sewing JR strips and blocks together.

1. For the first quilt strip, sew in this order: a JR strip, a 2.5" square, a JR strip.
2. Cut the 1st quilt strip to the width of the quilt.
3. To make the second quilt strip, sew in this order: The cut off portion of the first quilt strip, a 2.5" square, a JR strip.
4. Cut the 2nd quilt strip to the width of the quilt.
5. Sew quilt strip 2 to quilt strip 1.
6. To make the 3rd quilt strip, sew in this order: The leftover piece from the 2nd quilt strip, one 2.5" square, another JR strip.
7. Cut the 3rd quilt strip to the width of the quilt.
8. Sew the 3rd quilt strip to quilt strip 2.

When cutting your quilt strips, after strip 1, always measure from the strip left over from the previous strip. That should make the 2.5" blocks show up in different places on the quilt. Continue making quilt strips in this manner and sewing them to the last quilt strip.

[Hulamoon]

I was planning a non JRR. lol I found a picture that would be impossible to do the traditional way. So my plan was to sew the squares on and put them on my design wall ,give it a hair cut and go from there.



I hope that made sence. I have the jelly roll already in almost the same colors.In fact two of the strips are on the white side.

https://www.missouriquiltco.com/shop...opal-25-strips

[Jean Sewing Machine]

Did you consider making the binding tool star blocks for your fabrics? That shows off gradient colors so beautifully! Otherwise, Sylvia's method is the way to go, create one row at a time.

[bubba]

When I did my Happy quilt, I arranged how I wanted them to be so it worked out well.

[Grandma Nan]

I had 2 pkgs of Stonehenge Sand & Surf strips. Each pkg had 2 of each od the 21 patterns in the collection. Almost 1/2 were teals and the other almost 1/2 were browns. I decided to pull the blatant blues to use in another project.

So now I have 4 strips each - of 9 different gradient colors and want to do a JRR2. Of these batiks #1 the lightest and #9 is the darkest. There are what I consider 3 lights, 3 mediums and 3 darks. I'm so afraid that if I don't lay them out right to begin with I will come out with blocks of the same colors on adjacent rows. I've been thinking about this for days and just confusing myself more and more. The best I can come up with is sewing in the following sequence 9-3-5-2-8-1-7-4-6 and then repeating.

I hope someone out there can wrap their head around this and understand what I'm trying to do. If there is another sequence you think would be better I'd love to know. Now I know why it is so much easier to use a full jelly roll with only a few duplicates in the sequence it comes off the roll!

Thanks for any help. My brain is fried on this one.

Here's the link to the strips ~ don't know if it will help: https://www.missouriquiltco.com/shop...f-stone-strips

Judy about the only person I know that could figure that out would be Jean Sewing Machine. She is the queen of the JRR. Beautiful fabric, by the way.