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Threadneedle Street: Free Pattern for JellyRolls

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Threadneedle Street


I named this free pattern Threadneedle Street for for an ancient London road, home to the tailors' guild for centuries. It's in the financial district today.

You have a roll of 2-1/2" strips
A Moda JellyRoll of Morris Earthly Paradise:

Cut the strips into parallelograms
by cutting them with a 60 degree ruler every 7-1/2".
Flip half of them.

Combine them with a Jelly Roll of Moda Bella Solids, say Snow White.
 Junior Jelly Roll of Snow
Cut them the same way


Alternate till you run out of fabric.

My inspiration

A snapshot of a 1930s quilt seen at the FFA & Ag Museum in Iowa.
I do not believe I have ever noticed this pattern before.
At first I thought it was a braid design.

A diagram for a braid pattern with 90 degree angles.

It's sort of like a braid but the angles have to be 60 degrees---not 90 degrees.
A tessellation---and perfect for JellyRolls.

UPDATE: Astute commenters noted how hard this would be to sew---it's all set-in seams, which
is probably why the pattern is rarely seen. How could it be modified to make it possible to do it with straight seam on a machine?

Add seams.


Well you could make it all diamonds.

Or some diamonds.

But I think it was a hand-sewing project.



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