So I got this wonderful batique jelly roll a few years back, and never got around to making anything. I had plans. Sort of, vaguely. Mostly I just wanted a jelly roll, but I was thinking maybe stars? Friendship stars etc?
Suddenly I had a moment of “let’s just roll” (I… see my wording mistake but I’m standing by it) and having a brand new sewing machine (yay!) I felt like playing.
I divided the roll into two equal stacks of color, one cold and one warm. Then I started building a log cabin. I only measured out the very first center square, then I kept sewing along the edges, round and round, and trimming after each seam.
No pinning, no ironing. (though sometimes seam ripping…)
Whenever one strip was too short to cover a side, I stitched on the next shade, and kept going.
Due to the length of the strips the color changes make it look rectangular, but they’re square, which is important for this next bit.
Slash ’em, and re-assemble.
This is actually a cheat picture, I hadn’t sewn them together yet there, but they are now and apart from the seam allowance missing, it looks the same finished.
I haven’t actually done anything with it yet, it’s just hanging pinned to my craft room curtain, waiting for it to tell me what it wants to be when it grows up. But it was a VERY pleasant three or four hours, and kinda reminded me how smooth and quick it can be if you just go for it and do something small, without time pressuring yourself.