Stash to Splash - Jelly Roll Rug

Learn in this 2 week class how to make your very own jelly roll rug using your own stash fabric from home, with Heather! By the end of class, you will complete a unique jelly roll rug.

In this class, the focus is on teaching you the basics of cutting your strips and basics in jelly roll rug making with tips and tricks on how to sew flat curves. All while using a your scrap stash of fabric from home. This class is a perfect way to use up your remnant stash piles that you don't know what to do with! 

Skill Level: Advanced Beginner/intermediate

Skill requirements:

You must know how to set up/use your sewing machine, be comfortable with basic sewing vocabulary, be confident in sewing along a specified guideline, and have a machine strong enough to sew through medium-thickness fabrics. It may be helpful to have worked with quilt batting/ thick fabrics previously, though not a requirement. Also, please keep in mind that this is a trickier project, but is quite fun and gets easier as you go, do your best not to get discouraged! It took Heather a couple of tries as well to get the start of the rug just right, but it does come together once you’ve found your rhythm!

Please note: depending on how fast you learn, you may have homework to complete between classes.

Ages 16+

In this workshop you will learn:

• New sewing vocabulary

• Proper cutting techniques to prep your strips for jelly roll rug

• How to sew flat curves

• How to use a jelly roll rug tool (if you have one or would like to purchase one) 

• How to assemble a Jelly roll rug "rope/tube”

• How to take a jelly roll rope and fold it to be sewn

What You Provide:

• 3-4 different colour/print cotton woven fabric form your stash: ** You will want to use light - medium weight woven cotton fabric ONLY

  *As long as the fabric does not stretch at all and you can cut long 2.5" wide strips out of the fabric you may use it. (ex; thrifted/old bedsheets should work as well.)

One rug, of medium size: 

• 2.5 m worth of fabric, that gets cut into 2.5" strips which is equivalent to one jelly roll 

• 2.5 m worth of batting, that will get cut into 2.5" strips which is equivalent to one jelly roll

• Two 500m spools of thread or approx. 1000m of thread

• ** OPTIONAL** Jelly Roll Rug tool (Green Thimble or Buttons and Bows has) A jelly roll rug can be completed without one however it does make the process easier and potentially faster. If you believe you will be sewing more than one Jelly Roll rug within your sewing time, this tool is recommended to have for ease. 

• Sewing machine: Don't forget to pack the manual, foot pedal & power cord!

• Pins and scissors if you have them otherwise the few provided will need to be shared