Stained Glass as you go quilt method

 A few months ago I came up with the idea of using piping to create the stained glass look in a quilt. I used it in a paper piecing project where I learned that some quilt blocks aren't well suited to using piping although I was fairly pleased with the results.

Next I tried it on a crazy quilt style block and it worked fabulously plus it was very easy and fast.

Finally I decided to try it on a regular quilt block in a larger quilt. I choose Jacob's Ladder because you must have self contained pieces in order to make this method work. Another words, blocks in which there are 2 more pieces of the same fabric next to each other doesn't work well with piping because you need the seam to finish the piping end.

The pattern for the Stained Glass Jacob's Ladder quilt is available in multiple eBook formats at www.smashwords.com/books/view/121091 and available at amazon.com.

Happy Quilting!

Sampler Quilt 2011 - Week 17 - Jacobs Ladder

Jacob's Ladder is a nine patch grid layout block using four patch units and half square triangle units. Use 3 fabrics, background and accent fabric plus an additional coordinating fabric.

Quilt block calculators

Block calculators up and running...

1. Jewel Box: block, quilt
2. Ribbon Star: block, quilt
3. Four Square ^New!: block, quilt, potholders
4. Dancing Pinwheel (a.k.a.Trailing Star, Mosaic, Mosaic #1, Old Poinsetta and Spinning Stars: block
5. Balkan Puzzle: block, quilt
6. Half Square Triangles: block
7. Four Patch: block
8. Starflower: block
9. Ohio Star: block
10. Quarter Square Triangle: block
11. Clay's Choice ^New!: block
12. Jacob's Ladder ^New!: block
13. Nine Patch: block
14. Nine to Four: block
15. Eight Point Design ^New!: block

While doing research on the history of different quilt blocks, I found a website (Hart Cottage Quilts) that shows some copies of quilting publications from the early 1900's. It's fun to look up these things and actually see old documents and I hope to find more.

Have a Great Day!

Jeanne