{"id":914,"date":"2010-11-03T14:07:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T14:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=914"},"modified":"2010-11-03T14:07:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T14:07:01","slug":"jelly-rolls-and-fat-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"Jelly rolls and fat quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m a bit of a sucker when it comes to jelly rolls and fat quarters. Particularly late at night when I’m perusing the internet. well, OK if I’m being honest, only late at night on the internet!<\/p>\n

Many of the fabric collections being produced are just so incredibly delicious that my willpower flies straight out of the window. The latest Fresh Palette<\/em>, Breakfast at Tiffany’<\/em>s or Bliss<\/em> collections are utterly, utterly charming. Where fat quarters are concerned I have to just give in and admit that resistance \u00a0is futile.<\/p>\n

I have however a little niggle about jelly rolls and the rest. The large quilt I’m struggling to stuff under my sewing machine at the moment (see yesterday’s post) was made with a Martinique<\/em> jelly roll with a couple of other fabrics added. It was probably the quilt that I’ve had the most problems with as far as colour choices are concerned. The jelly roll fabrics fit together so well that it was really, really difficult to introduce anything else without it sticking out like a sore thumb. (Mind you this might have been partly because my local quilt store is pretty small and doesn’t have a huge selection). \u00a0In the case of my Martinique quilt (and I apologise to the designers for saying this), but the seamless co-ordination makes things a little….oh help, how do I say this without seeming rude…well, blah.<\/p>\n

Maybe this is only the case for this one quilt and maybe I’m totally wrong and just made bad colour choices and my next quilt will positively sing. But I don’t know. The quilt top I made a month or so ago purely from Lumiere de Noel<\/em> is very beautiful (well I think it is anyway!), and incredibly tasteful. But it felt a little as though I had had an interior designer come in and ‘do’ my home. Very perfect, but is it really me?<\/p>\n

With all this pre-organized colour matching and kits for making up the perfect quilt, it’s like we get a wonderful product – and we know in advance that it’s going to be wonderful – \u00a0but \u00a0the creativity and the individual personality in the quilt is missing. What do you think? Is it just me, or has anyone else experienced this?<\/p>\n

I’d love to hear what you think if you have a moment to jot down your thoughts.<\/p>\n

Helen<\/p>\n

Having said all that I could positively eat all the gorgeous fabric that’s piled up in my fabric cupboard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a bit of a sucker when it comes to jelly rolls and fat quarters. Particularly late at night when I’m perusing the internet. well, OK if I’m being honest, only late at night on the internet! Many of the fabric collections being produced are just so incredibly delicious that my willpower flies straight out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-eK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}