Sew Your Stash with the Jelly Stripes Quilt Pattern
Today I’m sharing another sample of the newest stash buster pattern – Jelly Stripes.
The Jelly Stripes Quilt Pattern is the perfect for your overflowing fabric shelves! Designed with your stash in mind, this simple strip-pieced quilt makes it easy (and fun) to sew through your stash.
Whether you love fat quarters, layer cake squares, jelly rolls, or scraps, this pattern is ready for them all. Jelly Stripes is fast, beginner-friendly, and oh-so-satisfying – the kind of quilt you can start in the morning and finish by dinner.
A Fast and Flexible Stash Buster
Jelly Stripes is all about easy sewing and flexible fabric choices. Pull together your favorite prints and/or colors for a playful scrappy look, or go for a coordinated color-block style. Both will result in a fun and modern quilt.
Because the design uses simple strip piecing, this quilt comes together quickly – no tricky seams or complicated construction required. It’s the perfect weekend project or palette cleanser between more complex quilts.
Perfect for Beginners (and Quick Finishes!)
If you’re just getting started with quilting, Jelly Stripes is a great confidence builder. The pattern walks you through the process step-by-step, and the big, bold stripes make layout and assembly easy. Even experienced quilters will appreciate how relaxing and speedy this pattern is – sometimes it’s nice to just sew and enjoy the process.
Stash Quilt in solids
For this version of Jelly Stripes, I pulled a bunch of solids from my stash. I used a print from my stash as inspiration to pull these colors. That’s a great trick for fabric pulls.
Find a hero print from your stash – then start pulling a bundle using its colors. Pay attention to dominate colors vs accent colors. Curate your bundle accordingly. Your bundle will contain more of the dominate colors and just a splash of the accent colors (like the bright green in my bundle!)
Franken-batting + Sheets as backings
This one truly was a stash quilt! I’ve been trying to use up my batting scraps by piecing them together to fit my quilts. Usually I butt the edges up together and multi stitch zig zag it. But lately it’s been resulting in really bubbly batting. So this time I tried a small overlap and pinned it all in place before sewing.
It does result in a small bump in the quilt but the batting comes out more square and flat. Honestly, you would really have to look for that bump so it doesn’t bother me.
I’ve been on a kick of using bed sheets as backings lately. It’s a really great money saver plus I think sheets are nice and soft and no piecing is required! When I mentioned using sheets as backings on Instagram, lots of quilters said they use fuzzy blankets as backing! I was shocked by how many quilters do this since I had no idea it was a thing! I’m going to have to try that!
Wavy Stitch quilting
This solids Jelly Stripes quilt was finished off with the wavy stitch. You can find my tutorial on YouTube here.
These are my settings on my Janome MC6700p:
Stitch 8
Stitch length of 3.0
Width of 7.0
Line spacing – 3/4 inch
One Quilt Won’t Be Enough
Once you finish one Jelly Stripes quilt, it’s hard to stop! The design works beautifully for gifts, stash-busting challenges, or last-minute projects. Try mixing up the layout, switching fabrics, or experimenting with a bold color palette to make each one unique.
So go ahead — grab that jelly roll, pull out your scraps, and make something beautiful with the Jelly Stripes Quilt Pattern.
Shop the pattern:
👉 Jelly Stripes Quilt Pattern by Quilty Love
Great for: beginner quilters, stash busting, weekend sewing, modern quilting projects
Solids Jelly Stripes materials
Quilt Pattern – Jelly Stripes by Quilty Love
Fabrics – Assorted solids from my stash
Binding – Speckled by Ruby Star Society
Backing – Threshold sheet from Target
Pieced on my Juki 2010q
Quilted on my Janome MC6700p
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