Hi , 

I've been preparing a lot of fabric for new quilts lately, and found myself pressing a lot of precut jelly roll strips. I tried speeding up the process and this method worked great and resulted in starched and pressed strips in much less time.

 See how I prepared my jelly roll strips fast in this short video:

Just like pressing all quilting fabric, this works best using a firm pressing board. You can build one yourself to perfectly fit your quilting space and here's a tutorial to guide you.

And here's my favorite dry iron for pressing fabric for quilting (Amazon affiliate link). This is a dry iron, which means it doesn't have holes on the bottom or a reservoir to hold water.

QCT 6 on Sale through September

Grace Company's quilting automation system Quilter's Creative Touch 6 is on sale this month, with savings from $800 to $1200, depending on the version you choose. This computer quilting system and software will transform any Qnique longarm (or Little Rebel!) into a computerized long arm quilting machine.

A lot of quilters have emailed me recently asking about a QCT compatible tablet. Grace Company is now offering a computer tablet, guaranteed to work with Quilter's Creative Touch 6 and you can bundle this with your new QCT system for $999.95.

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Just in case you'd like to see how QCT 6 works, here's a detailed video which covers all the steps to quilt edge-to-edge, advancing your quilt on a hoop frame, and quilting multiple rows.

Even on my bigger quilting frames, I now use the base level QCT 6 Edge-to-Edge feature to quilt a single row of a design across my quilts. It's faster, easier, and really the best way to quilt edge-to-edge!

That's it for this week, . I hope my quick little jelly roll starching tip will help you with future precut jelly roll quilts.

Let's go quilt,

Leah Day