...Jelly Rolls!

For anyone who goes slightly weak at the knees at the sight of a beautifully presented bundle of fabric...get a load of this!!

This, my friends, is what is known as a "jelly roll". How lush does that sound? Perhaps there are other, more enlightened, souls out there who are already perfectly well acquainted with this lovely term, but I wouldn't have known my "jelly rolls" from my "arctic rolls" until just a few days ago.

I decided that, before investing in a new stock of fabric for my ever-growing collection, I would purchase a collection of various different samples and choose my favourites from there. After spending some considerable time perusing this most brilliant website, I decided to plump for one of Beyond Fabric's Moda Jelly Rolls. And boy did I make the right choice!

As you can see from these pictures, there were easily 30 or 40 different types of fabric folded together, in ridiculously beautiful colour-co-ordinated sections, within the one Roll. Quite how this was done, I will probably never know - it was just too pretty for words.

I could barely bring myself to undo the ribbon and destroy the gorgeousness, but when I finally did begin to unravel the Roll (after taking many many "before" photos), I couldn't believe just how many beautiful strips of fabric were waiting patiently inside! It was like the Mary Poppins handbag of fabric bundles!

And, for those of you who might have been wondering, here's what it looked like from above. Awesome....just awesome.

So now I must delve deep into my vast and varied collection of new fabric samples and create something which will do them justice!

This is going to be fun.......

X x x x

P.s. Not quite sure why my first photo has such a pinky sunset hue to it - must have been my rose-tinted glasses! X