“Winter is Coming” Quilt
Marking and cutting
Constance helped mark parallel lines 3/4 of an inch apart, and then intersecting lines at 60 degrees of slant also 3/4 of an inch apart…
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Cloth Squares and paper Diamonds
The paper diamonds fit into the 1 1/2 inch cloth squares we got in the mail. Our challenge was to make a winter quilt with the squares so…
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Pin and Trim
…we pinned the diamonds into the cloth like this!
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Baste and arrange
Then the fabric was folded around the diamonds and basted…arranged…
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re-arrange
…and re-arranged…
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Re-re-arrange
…and re-arranged again!
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Stitch and sew
Constance decided on this assembly…
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Keep stitching
…lots of stitching coming up…stay tuned!
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This looks marvelous. I will be eagerly awaiting how it all turns out.
Thanks very much, we are having fun with this project! It should be done in a couple of days.
Beautiful work, Constance!
Thank yo so much!
Constance is amazing. She must have good eyes and the ability to focus to keep all these patterns in place and visualize the outcome. Can’t wait to see what this will become. The colors are lovely.
Constance does have good eyes! She has been mixing and matching. Luckily it is a very small quilt, so we could just lay it out, though when she got a pattern she liked, we both had to be careful not to sneeze!
Wow, this is going to look fabulous!
Thanks! We think so, and hope so. It is our first time with this method, but it looks good to us!
Dear Constance, please show how you manage the extra fabric in the pointy areas. This will be beautiful!
Tomorrow we will show a close-up of the very middle where six points meet – but basically we had to be sure that all the little tags at the pointy ends were pointed in the same direction. Then they overlap nicely and end up fairly flat, you can see it a bit in the last two pictures.
Constance you are a wonder!! So this is how those lovely little diamonds are made eh? My Hitty girls told me to really study this. they are thinking maybe I need to take a seminar from Constance!! The new winter quilt is going to be beautiful.
I wish you could come here for some lessons and some fun! We like this method, and may be trying to do more!