Jelly Roll Rug

If you’ve never come across a jelly roll rug before, well you’re in for a treat. I am sharing a newly finished jelly roll rug that I just made. 

The pattern I’m using the Roma Quilt Jelly Roll Rug which you can purchase below from Etsy or Amazon or Fat Quarter Shop. Click any of the link to get your pattern too. 

• Pattern on Etsy
• Pattern and Kit on Amazon
• Pattern and Kits at Fat Quarter Shop

I love that this rug is not only beautiful, useful and not that hard to do, it uses up leftover batting too!

You can opt to use a precut batting roll, but if you’re savvy and want to make use of leftover batting scraps, this is the perfect project for it!

How to use leftover scrap batting

If you don’t have scrap batting leftovers, you can always opt for the precut batting which you can get HERE. 

I keep all my lefover scrap batting that I cut off when trimming a quilted quilt. They are usually about 3-5” in width which makes it perfect for this project. 

I first sort my leftover batting into 3 piles. The first pile is the larger pieces, that I can use for a quilt as you go panel. The Second pile is the leftovers from the quilted quilts trimming that are larger than 2.5” wide. And the last pile is the strips smaller than 2.5” wide.

From the second pile, I continue to trim them all into 2.5” wide strips. 

I use my large ergonomic 60mm rotary cutter for this. You’ll need the bigger rotary for cutting thicker materials.

For this project, I am using Ruby Star Food Group Jelly Roll. You can make any size you want but you can also follow the size in the pattern.

How to make a Jelly Roll Rug

Here is a snippet of the process:

First, start by joining all the jelly roll strips required.

This is followed by creating a ball of the folded jelly roll and batting “yarn”. I simply followed through the pattern to create this folded yarn. 

When preparing the folded jelly roll, I used lots of clips to keep the strips folded while I sew them close. The clips help a lot at keeping the folds stay put and making the process faster. The more clips you have the better. 

This process didn’t take long and it was fun to wound it into a ball. 

The next process takes a little bit more patience as I needed to stop every now and then to press the rug. This is to ensure the rug remains flat. 

The folded piece is now pieced together with a zig-zag stitch. You want to make sure you go slow and use a decent size zig-zag stitch to catch all the layers. You can use one colour thread, but I decided to use 3 colours as my Jelly roll varies from dark to light and I like the look of a subtle zig-zag. 

It is satisfying seeing the jelly roll change as the rug grows larger. 

Video Tutorial and Tips for making Jelly Roll Rug

I watched this Youtube video by Erica before making the Jelly Roll Rug and it helps to give me where to focus so that my process turned out well. Erica has done a great job with the tutorial, you should definitely check it out. 

I am using Janome Horizon 8200 QCP for this project. You don’t need a large machine to do this, but the machine must be able to do zig-zag stitch and stitch through all the layers.

You can check out other models HERE too. 

Tips that I found helpful for my next attempt:

• while zig-zagging the curve, I may want to pin it in place too. This helps to keep it flat and avoid over making the pleats and tuck which can cause it to curve inward.
• steady speed is better than slow. 
• Use no 90 or 100 topstitch needle. 80 won’t catch the whole 4 layers and will cause missing stitches.

The finished Jelly Roll Rug

I love the final finish of the rug and for sure will be making more!

This one will be used near my quilt cupboard.

In the sewing room. 

Something fun, something colourful for a joyful room.

Have you made a Jelly Roll Rug before?

If you haven’t, come let’s try it. 

Grab a jelly roll, Batting Roll or scraps batting and the pattern HERE to get started. 

• Pattern on Etsy
• Pattern and Kit on Amazon
• Pattern and Kits at Fat Quarter Shop
   

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