Have you had fun so far on the Diamond blog hop?
I am always a sucker for blog hops and of course when my blogging friends host I almost always jump on it and join the fun!
This was announced in February by Carol at Just let me quilt
Then I put it on my calendar and kind of forgot about it for a while, when I DID remember about it, I was thinking about revamping one of my patterns and
I have one in my etsy store called “A Bag full of diamonds”
and I have it listed for half price now at $4.50 instead of $9 🙂
I wrote the pattern for half yards but then I wanted to use this FQ sampler from Connecting threads called Country Fair
and instead of using half yards I used this and shuffled things around and made 20 blocks
and then added the side strips (they are different widths)
Then i got the idea to twist and turn the blocks and it gave the quilt a completely different look!
I put the blocks sideways on the design wall because my wall is kind of long sideways but short, with a quilt like this, it doesn’t matter how it looks on the wall before finishing the top.
Then I sewed it together
It measures 48″ x 60″
I didn’t think I’d have time to quilt it but I did!
(oops flipped it for the picture, but there’s really no up or down on this one)
Here I also used my backdrop and photography lights, even though I still use photoshop to adjust, the color overall is much better and “even”
Since the prints are mostly floral I quilted a large flower and leaves all over it
I found a red floral that was long enough, about 2yds but since the top was 48″ wide I just added a green and white print stripe down the middle and then a solid green/teal for the binding
Thanks to Carol for hosting this hop!
Here’s the rest of the participants if you haven’t visited them already
April 22
Seams To Be Sew (moved to April 25th)
April
23
April
24
April 25
High Road Quilter
Seams To Be Sew
April
26
I like how it looks with the blocks turned different ways, great job!
A wonderful quilt, I like the blocks turned it adds movement to the quilt.
Very nice, Bea…an interesting quilt
Lovely!
Cute quilt. Love the fabrics.
What a fun and beautiful quilt. It's amazing how different it looks in the other fabrics. This is a perfect diamond quilt…love it! Thanks for hopping with us, Bea!
A fun pattern and lovely fabrics… just beautiful and sparkly like diamonds should be 🙂
Cute design!
Fun twist to your pattern! Love it when you can change things up and I do love the elongated diamond shape.
Great pattern and your new layout adds so much interest.
Very nice, dont you love it when a plan comes together?
That's a fun layout for the diamond blocks.
Great quilt. It is amazing how color and block orientation can change up a quilt's final look. Both versions of your pattern are terrific.
Cute project!
Very very nifty tytyty for sharing and the colors you picked are so prong like…. happyness04431@yahoo.com
Sew cute! Thanks for sharing!
That turned out just sweet as can be!
A fun quilt that can even be used for Christmas.
Love your fabrics for this project. The quilt is fantastic.
That's a great quilt. Glad you were able to find time to quilt it.
What a unique diamond design! Looks like a marquise cut. Thanks for offering your pattern at half price for the Hop!!
It's a fun design, Bea. The colors could be Christmas too. Your diamonds are so unique and the turning the blocks gives it that wow factor.
Fun quilt. I really like the way you turned the blocks!
Cool quilt! I like the arrangements of the blocks and the way you quilted it.
Very interesting quilt – I like that you rotated the blocks for added interest
What a fun design. This version should be called Christmas Diamonds! Love it.