I dove into the "small yardage for doll clothes, maybe" dresser and chose a lot of larger pieces of roughly (very roughly) coordinating prints that were either a scale I don't always want to use for doll clothes (including pieces left over from human-size sewing projects), or that work fine for doll clothes, but I've had in the stash for years and my sewing styles have moved on.
I ripped the fabrics into 2½" strips, not caring at all about lengths, and assembled them with the jellyroll race method of sewing them all together end-to-end (choosing to make the seam angled, but that's personal preference) to create an unwieldy, long strip which is then folded in half, right sides together,and stitched long one edge. Cut through the fold at the end, flatten, fold it all right-sides together, sew along one edge, cut the folded end open, and repeat until it's 50"+ long.
This one ended up at 58" x 30" wide, which is not quite as long and not nearly as wide as it would have been if I had used either an actual jelly roll or had measured the strips to make sure I had an equivalent amount of fabric strips.It's fine.
Like I said, it's fine.
I also used this project to empty several partly-filled bobbins of random colors, and remembered to make the stitch length very very short, so the stitches would be less likely to unravel at the cut ends
We'll see how it's held up once I figure out what to actually do with it.
This barely made dent in my small yardage fabric stash, so I'm sure I'll do another again, sometime.
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