Stained Glass Lasagna

If you like quilting with a stained glass, look, I've designed another very easy quilt called Seattle Streets that has a little more visual variety than Stained Glass Lasagna, which was more of an accidental quilt made with Seattle Streets leftovers. For free directions to Seattle Streets, click here! (If nothing else, please, please click on the link -- I'm trying to convince google to send people there when they search for "Stained Glass Quilts.")

Seattle Streets Quilt

And now, back to our original post, the Stained Glass Lasagna Quilt.

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(Update, March 2012: I finally wrote up the instructions for this very easy quilt. Click through here to my other site, scroll down and enjoy!)

There is a quilt out there called a "Lasagna Quilt." So named because you put it together like lasagna noodles in a pan -- you go till you get to the end of a "noodle," then add another noodle, then add a part of a noodle... Then use the rest of that noodle in the next row. Et cetera. The end result looks something like this.

I liked the quilt because it was speedy, but as usual I wanted a bit more definition. So I started playing around with black between the colors, and this is what I came up with.

Not sure I'd do it again. At one point I was sewing 86 feet of colored fabric to 86 feet of 1"-wide black fabric. Took FOREVER. And squaring it up was kind of a pain because of the seam bulk from the black fabric.

But it was fun seeing how it went together, and once you get past that first step it goes pretty quickly.

All in all, not bad for one day of sewing.

(Original photo of Seattle Streets, pre-finish.)