Originally Posted by gaigai
Well, actually there is a difference in how they look. The "real" window makes a kind of echo in the oval, and they nestle together. The "faux" ones don't make that echo.
Echo?? do you mean that oval between the colors?
You can nestle them together if you sew them the right way (I just tried that layout to see how it would work), but I think you'll waste a lot of fabric. Of course the real windows use an awful lot of fabric too!
Yes - when you do the old method you use 4 times the fabric for one square. I cut 9 1/2 inch squares for each one.
The only downside I see to arranging them to nestle, is the visible seam which you do not have in the old style.