Anyone who has made a jelly roll rug knows the tedious part isn't the sewing — it's slicing yards of batting into endless 2.5" strips first. Pellon's cotton batting jelly rolls skip that step entirely: natural cotton batting with scrim, pre-cut into one continuous 2.5" strip and wound onto a roll, ready to wrap and sew.
What's in the roll
The batting is 93% natural cotton with a 7% polypropylene scrim, needle-punched so the strip has real tensile strength — it won't stretch, bunch, or beard as you wrap fabric around it and coil it under the needle. Loft is a low 1/16" with 3–5% shrinkage and a stitch distance rating up to 10". That low, dense profile is exactly what rug and bowl construction wants: firm coils that hold shape underfoot.
25 yards or 50?
The 50-yard roll is the full-rug size. The classic oval jelly roll rug pattern calls for roughly 50 yards of 2.5" batting strips, so one roll finishes the rug with no joins mid-project.
The 25-yard roll suits everything smaller: rope bowls, coiled baskets, trivets, padded bag straps and handles, and quilt-as-you-go strip work. Making a full rug? Pair two 25s or go straight to the 50.
How the strips get used
For rugs and bowls, wrap a 2.5" fabric strip around the batting strip, coil, and zigzag adjacent coils together as you go. For bag straps, the batting strip slides inside a folded strap for padding that won't shift or lump after washing. For quilt-as-you-go, the pre-cut width matches standard 2.5" strip piecing exactly.
One tip before you start
Join batting strip ends with a butted seam and a wide zigzag rather than overlapping — overlaps telegraph as lumps in a coiled rug. And keep tension relaxed as you wrap: the scrim gives the strip its strength, so there's no need to stretch it taut.
