The Jelly Roll Quilt - in progress!

A few months ago, I cut several 3" strips from my stash fabric intending to make a quilt I saw in a magazine. The technique involved cutting triangles from the strips and sewing them into pinwheels. I made one block. What a snoozefest! I could not imagine making enough for the full size quilt! But of course, I had already cut enough strips for the quilt - what to do? They languished in my sewing room, mocking me whenever I entered. Enter the Jelly Roll Quilt.

For those of you not familiar, the Jelly Roll Quilt is a current quilting rage and many Youtube videos are dedicated to the process so I won't elaborate here. They made from one of those handy pre-cut strip rolls found in quilt shops. The premise of the quilt is really quite simple, and it sounded perfect for using up the myriad 3" strips I'd cut for the scrapped scrappy pinwheel project.

So I started sewing and ended up with a loooooong 3" strip!  It took less than an hour to sew them all together in random order. (See the result - left) Then I started sewing them back to themselves.

Repeated the process until I ended up with this top. Hmmmm - the darker value strips are all concentrated on one end. I had not thought of that as I was stitching happily away! What to do?? I'm thinking I might cut the top in thirds and swap one of the pieces around to try to make the values more even, if you know what I mean!