EQ Tutorial Tuesday- Diamond Challenge

Doyoueq posted a challenge for this month : DIAMONDS!

So I figured I’d play around with some diamond blocks

first I searched for “diamond” and got 50 blocks

Let’s pick some, and create a new quilt

of course I’d go with a diamond layout (Quilt/new quilt/ variable point)

And I inserted some blocks and rotated them

Before I make a border I like to get a “theme” going with colors and fabrics.

I added “Moda pot luck” from the EQ fabric download feb 2014

You can download them here

sometimes I click a new fabric and enter it into one block at a time to see which one I like

Then I clicked auto borders

and picked diamonds of course!

picked one and inserted into the border, doesn’t look good now as the border is too skinny

under the border tab I widened the border and had 4 diamonds top and bottom and only 3 on the sides

I then used the eyedropper to pick the color from the pinwheel looking block in the middle of the quilt (just in case I couldn’t tell which fabric it was)

then the spraycan and holding down CTRL I clicked the pinwheels on the border with this fabric

and colored away

and added a new border and colored it also

Kind of a funky quilt, don’t you think?

I don’t really like the pointy blocks, so I swapped them out

Have you done a diamond quilt before? or designed one?

Link up if you have.