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I started planning this when I had finished my previous patchwork quilt. I have bought the jelly roll at the same time, and love the colours, but wasn’t sure the best way to use them. I googled jelly roll quilts and came across a zig zag patchwork image that I found quite striking, and decided to go with this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I easily established that the zig zag effect is created by squares with 2 strips in. These would be horizontal with colours 1 & 2, and then vertical with colours 2 & 3 etc. I needed to work out what I could make with the limited strip combinations I had. This pack had 14 different fabrics, 12 had 3 strips of each, and 2 just 2 strips. I realised I could use 2 strips of each to create the zig zag (i.e. fabric 1&2, then 2&3, 3&4,… 14&1). I could get 9 x 4.5″ squares out of each ‘pair’ of strips. Me being me, I used a spreadsheet to help me see how this would work out. I also decided I wanted the zig zag up \/ down the quilt, not diagonally – which made it a little harder to do! This would leave me with 1 strip each left of 12 of the fabrics – I will come back to them – they won’t be wasted!<\/p>\n\n\n\n