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National Jelly Roll Day

Saturday September 16, was the first ever National Jelly Roll day and I decided months ago that I would participate!

So many bloggers and companies were on board for this event and it was so much fun to see all the offers by various bloggers and vendors for those that participated.

I know that this event was for a jelly roll but I had a honey bun in my stash that I had bought at a Quilt Shop Hop about 3 years ago and since I am on a "purge that stash" roll, that is what I used.

I have been looking at the "Summer in the Park" pattern and Missouri Star Quilt had a tutorial using honey buns.

This is what my honey bun strips looked like:



After sewing the first couple of strips and then creating the tube, I was a little apprehensive about how it would turn out.   When the blocks were cut out and pressed, I got a little more excited:



And as I started putting the blocks together, I absolutely fell in love!


I have some extra pieces left so I think I'll try to use those in the back somehow.  I'm still trying to figure out how to quilt it.  I think I might do some sort of FMQ floral pattern in the white space and something a little simpler in the colored stripe areas.  I'd like to get this done by the end of the month.  Who knows this might end up on the ETSY store.

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