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Ready to learn how to get half square triangles out of jelly roll strips? It isn’t hard, but you will have to be very careful doing these, as the cuts will be on the bias rather than straight of grain. Don’t be afraid, let’s take it one step at a time.

Begin by carefully pressing your 6 background (BG) strips and 6 jelly roll (JR) medium/dark strips with a generous amount of spray starch or Best Press. This will help keep the bias from stretching as you work with the half-square triangles.

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Today is a tutorial on making quick four patches from jelly roll strips, rollie-pollies or any 2-1/2-inch wide strip of fabric. If you downloaded the pdf already, I have changed the directions for the four patches into more of a speed piecing method, so here is the revised one – Oh, My Strippy Stars, Revised Pattern

Here is the quilt we are making, it is about 42-inches square using the pattern directions. If you double the number of stars, you could have a nice size lap quilt about 52×62. A few more blocks to bring the size up to ...