4CCC-154 {Black & White}

Hellooooooo! I'm so glad you stopped in today because I've got a project to share with you all that I am SOOOOO excited about.  This week over at the 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge, "yours truly" is your hostess-extraordinaire and I've got a challenge that might be hard for those of us who really LOVE our colors.  This week, I want to see projects that use ONLY black and white.  Yikes, right?  Trust me, you'll have fun.

I've been in a bit of a crafting funk lately and haven't really wanted to spend much time in my craft room so have been trying to figure out how to get my mojo back.  Well, folks, I might have done just that with this project I am working on.  I've been crafty most of my life and have recently rediscovered quilting...LOVE!  It's been years since I have quilted - life just got too busy - but I think the bug has bitten me again.  We've got an AMAZING little quilt shop in town and it's just a couple doors down from the gym so I popped in last Friday and decided I was GOING to do this.  I had done some research and watched a few videos on YouTube and was agog at this fast, easy, GORGEOUS quilt using a jelly roll.  No, not the kind you eat.  :) 

Basically, a jelly roll is a bunch of strips of coordinating fabrics, put together and tied up all pretty.  I picked up a jelly roll that only had black and white fabrics, some material for coordinating borders and got to work.

Some of the fabrics from the jelly roll...

The first step is sewing all the strips together end-to-end on an 45* angle...that's a LONG strip of fabric:

Then you put the short ends of the long strip together, sew down one LONG side, snip the bottom apart, and repeat the process four more times...watch the video because I cannot explain it as well as she does.  :)

Here's the completed jelly roll part of the quilt top:

And then I added two borders - one small and one wide.

First border - a black and white gingham:

 The wide border and completed quilt top - had to hang it over the railing because my DS wasn't tall enough to hold it up for me!

 Here are a couple close-ups of some of the materials:

I am so excited to get some batting and binding and finish this up!  I will definitely post pics when it's all done.  :)

Thanks for stopping in for my novel-length post...remember...Black and White...that's the challenge!  Have fun!