Queen Size Jelly Roll Race Question???? Please Help!!!

Hello all my quilty buddies I have another question for you all hope you all can help. I want to make a Jelly Roll Race Quilt for one of my friends and it needs to be a queen size.....I have made a reg size JRRQ and it is 54x63 approx. Here is my question...if I use 60 42" Jelly Roll Strips will that make it almost queen size and use a small boarder or do I need more strips and still have a small boarder?? I have made a reg size JRRQ and it is approx 54x64 I am just squaring it up right now to add binding. sooo...can you all help? All info is greatly needed as on one of web my sites where I have a small charge account has free shipping for one day only and I can get the rest of the Jelly rolls and batting etc then!!!

Here is the pictures of what fabric I have so far: (hope it works the pics that is) Jelly's are batics and the boarders are the Kona Blue and the backing is the red check...
Thanks for all your help and advice and sending hugs and prayers to all of you needed or just wanted!!!
Love Ya all
Jan G

I made up a formula for making jelly roll race quilts any width. You take the width you want it to be, multiply by 41 (inches long a jelly roll strip ends up after you piece it), then divide by 32 (number of rows in a jelly roll quilt) and you come up with the number of strips you will need. Remember, Jelly roll quilts end up with 32 rows. To add extra length, just sew extra strips together and sew them on the end one at a time to get it to the right length.

Here's one I did--started out with 55 strips, and added 8 rows to make it 40 rows long. That ended up being a little too long by the time I added the borders to make it fall low enough on the sides for a queen bed.

This is an UFO, I don't have time to quilt it right now.

Hope this helps! By the way, I love your choice of fabrics, and I think 60 will make a good size queen quilt, you may need to put on a border to make it long enough on the sides. As you can see from mine, I love batiks also!

I will post pictures of the 1st Jelly Roll Race quilt later.... it came out OK and I like it and it is going to be mine cuz I ain't giving or selling this one!!!! It has a lot of designer learning curves. So I will keep it!!! :) :) It will be the 1st one I have kept.

Thank you all and know I still care about all of you even if I am not here everyday..but I have to get all these quilts done and stop just hanging on the puter...know that I still think and pray for you all and I do check on some of the new things being made and they are all just fab!!!! I just need to concentrate on my jobs so I get as good as all of you!!!

Love you all
me Jan G

LOVE LOVE LOVE YOUR CHOICE OF FABRIC AND COLORS....

Love the colors, very pretty.

Thank you "Mother Jean Sewing Machine" for you wonderful input..Is that an out fit you made for a play or should you be smacking me on my hands?? Reverend Mother?? LOL

God Bless
Me Jan G

No Jan, no ruler for smacking! Just a costume! I costumed 4 nuns shows in 3 years, this was one of them for Nunsense, The Musical. Lots of fun!

Oh good cuz you looked like one of my Nun's...but she was the sweet one....thank goodness..thought my past was here..not a bud past but...did not like that ruler....LOL...love musicals..Old Movie Buff Here!!!! Going My Way....Bells Of Saint Mary's....etc etc....Oh Father O'Brien

God Bless
Me Jan G

Wait a minute! My calculations were wrong! A colleague and I just figured out the right way.

take the width of the quilt top x 32 (number of rows) divided by 41, to get the amount of strips.

I'm sorry, I transposed a number, I haven't done it an a while and my math skills are the greatest! I needed a calculator and didn't have one when I gave you the directions! Sorry!

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Originally Posted by Jean Sewing Machine

I made up a formula for making jelly roll race quilts any width. You take the width you want it to be, multiply by 41 (inches long a jelly roll strip ends up after you piece it), then divide by 32 (number of rows in a jelly roll quilt) and you come up with the number of strips you will need. Remember, Jelly roll quilts end up with 32 rows. To add extra length, just sew extra strips together and sew them on the end one at a time to get it to the right length.

Here's one I did--started out with 55 strips, and added 8 rows to make it 40 rows long. That ended up being a little too long by the time I added the borders to make it fall low enough on the sides for a queen bed.

This is an UFO, I don't have time to quilt it right now.

Hope this helps! By the way, I love your choice of fabrics, and I think 60 will make a good size queen quilt, you may need to put on a border to make it long enough on the sides. As you can see from mine, I love batiks also!

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STOP! DON'T DO IT THIS WAY! SEE DIRECTIONS BELOW FOR THE RIGHT WAY TO FIGURE IT OUT!

Saved a lot of money on Strips with the revised formula LOL! Question, Mother JSM:
Once you do your calculations, there is a fraction/decimal. Do you just round out to the next strip, or cut the fraction?

Yes round up, you can always trim, and whose to say it will end up exactly the width you want it to the inch. When in doubt, add a couple more strips if you have them, and you can trim it. I had a problem with one of them, when I sewed the 16 strips to the other 16 strips, my strips were twisted, and I didn't or couldn't cut the strips apart at the looped end evenly. I suppose I should have ripped that row out, but didn't and it ended up cut crooked. So I had to trim off over an inch of width to make the quilt square up. Learn by my mistakes, and try to make sure there are no twists in the long strips, especially as you do the wider ones. It doesn't make much difference for the first couple of rows you sew together. It is much easier to untwist when you are dealing with 100" of fabric than when you are dealing with 1600" or more of fabric. Hope I made this clear, maybe clear as mud!

Also if you have some extra jelly roll strips you can do several things--sew them together end to end to add one row at a time to make the quilt longer, or make a narrow plain border around it, then a border of jelly roll strips. I added yet another border to the one I have pictured, so it is plenty wide and plenty long! Good luck, can't wait to see it finished, because I LOVE BATIKS!

Jean Sewing Machine, Thank you for the equation!!! I work in numbers so this makes perfect sense to me!

Hi Jan...I really like your fabrics and Jean gave you her magic formula. Now all you have to do is the math and you will be ready to go! Be sure to post pictures when you are done! :)

I love making these! They are each so unique. As I might have said before the one in the picture was made using 57 strips. The strip part hung over the sides of the bed, and this is pictured on a queen size bed. I made it longer by using borders. Let us see how yours turns out. Mine is still a flimsie top, hope to quilt it soon!

I pick up a lovely jelly roll the other week, its one of the Moda ones, want to make a quilt for a twin, I thnk you call it, bed. It needs to go quite a way down the sides as there is a double duvet on the bed, hate having a cold rear when I roll over in the night, I was planning to do the jelly roll and then add borders to make it wide and long enough. My brain will not allow me to work out the math to do it any other way.

Love your fabric choices. That is going to be very beautiful.