Strippy Stripes: Past the Jelly Roll

The advent of  the Modern Quilt Movement and pre cut jelly rolls have made strip quilts really popular. 

From Satin Moon 

We see a lot of the instant jelly roll quilts. They are fun. Just sew the strips together and you have a quilt

From Texas Lovely

But since the advent of the rotary cutter, quilters have begun to see pieced fabric just as fabric. A pieced section of strips is something you can cut up and sew together to make a more complicated, and interesting pattern. 

From Big Horn Quilts

So we'll look at several ways to take stripped piecing and turn it into much more intricate work, by cutting, turning and resewing our strips.

Reeze Hanson, Morning Glory Designs

Once you start viewing your pieced strips as a starting spot, you'll be amazed at what you can do with them. We'll look at cutting triangles, bargello,  and Seminole piecework as ways you can turn your strippy stripes into awesome piecing.