lasagna quilt

This nearly became a UFO. My quilt guild had a lesson on making a quilt from 2.5" strips or from a jelly roll (a roll of fabrics which are 2.5" by width of fabric. I thought I'd give this a try but instead of using the number of strips called for, I used some width of fabric strips and some less than width of fabric because I had them in my box of strips. I also thought that I'd start with half of the length called for so I could make a smaller quilt.

The finished quilt top was NOT to my liking at all. The size was okay but I had some places where the same fabric showed up in adjacent rows and the rows went vertically rather than horizontally. NOW WHAT???

After much thought and consideration I decided I couldn't live with so many like fabrics touching one another so I ripped out a couple of seams and move a section or two to the other end of the quilt top. That looked better - but I still had rows going up and down instead of across. So the quilt top was taken to my cutting table and cut in half. Now I had 2 much smaller quilt tops but the rows could go across the quilt. A couple of borders and they'd make nice baby quilts.

This is one of the quilts - FINISHED! The other one is ready to quilt and I'll post the photo when it is done. If I ever want to make another quilt like these, I'll not use the 'jelly roll race' concept when I want a smaller quilt or when using directional fabrics (some of the fabrics aren't facing the direction I'd prefer).

Lesson learned and hopefully one I'll remember: When a project doesn't turn out to your liking, fix it or turn it into something else before you put it on a shelf or in a closet. This saves the project from becoming a UFO.