jelly roll
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4.2
- noun
- Jargon
:
rollo de tela
- The pattern called for two jelly rolls and several matching solids for the borders.
- jelly roll pan
- 10" jelly roll
- 15" by 10" jelly roll
Examples
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She unrolled a jelly roll and cut the strips into patchwork pieces for the quilt.
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I used a colorful jelly roll to create a beautiful patchwork quilt.
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She bought a colorful jelly roll of cotton strips to simplify her quilting project.
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I bought a jelly roll of fabric for my quilt.
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The store has many different jelly rolls available.
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The quilter selected a jelly roll with various fabric patterns for her next project.
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After assembling my jelly roll, I started sewing the strips together for a fun craft.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Although 'roll' suggests something wound or rolled, the constituent 'jelly' (a fruit preserve) gives no cue to a bundle of pre-cut fabric strips; the quilting sense is a specialized, conventionalized term rather than a literal composition. A B1 learner who knows 'jelly' and 'roll' would most likely interpret a pastry or literal rolled item, so the quilting meaning is not derivable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Jelly roll is a bundle of narrow fabric strips rolled together for sewing. The name borrows the picture of the sweet jelly roll cake because the strips are rolled like the cake and often bright like 'jelly' candies, so the term means these pre-cut rolls used in quilting.