I have found a pattern I like, so I think I’ll work on that next. Since they were all blue, I’ve added some beige/tan FQs and some maroon ones for a more well-rounded color palette. What will it be? I was gifted years ago with a fat quarter bundle of indigos that I’ve always loved but never had a pattern in mind for.
So that leaves me with the next personal project. After I confirm that everything will fit together correctly, then I’ll cut more for the “real thing.” I’ll just kit them up at that point and take them to the next Stitchers meeting and do the sewing there. What I did this morning was easy enough, but I won’t know until I add some sashing if the units will play nicely with each other. I used EQ7 to do the layout (just diamonds and setting triangles with sashing) and bought some rulers/templates with the hope that they’ll make the cutting process easier. Now on my design wall is a bunch of test diamonds for the next charity quilt. I’m grateful she was able to do it quickly. The super-secret quilt was finished and delivered yesterday. So that’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.Ĭheck out Judy L’s page to see what everyone else is working on. And I’m wondering if that’s because of the 1-1/2″ sashings. When I laid all the diamonds out on my design wall at home, they didn’t line up right. I could live with a 7/8″ finished sashing. Maybe what I should do is just cut all those sashings down by 1/8″. I’m afraid that when I do that, I’ll find out that my diamonds are cut wrong. One of the suggestions I got from INFO-EQ is to make a separate layout when doing any on-point quilts, doing all that math just for accurate rotary cutting instructions. Yikes, I couldn’t figure out what angle I needed to cut and where (the tutorial doesn’t have a photo of that step), so I stopped before I did something stupid. This morning I sat down to do the same thing with the corners, and top/bottom and left/right setting triangles. So now all the diamonds have a sashing strip on one side. That went well, except for the first angle cut I made where I didn’t see that I was supposed to press my diamonds first and then cut the angle. I cut my strips 1-1/2″ and chain pieced the diamonds to each strip like the tutorial says to do. I just wasn’t understanding why and finally today on the INFO-EQ mailing list, I got my answer (it’s complicated, there’s MATH involved LOL). So I knew it could be done.)īut EQ7 wanted me to cut 1-3/8″ strips with a 7/8″ finished sashing and I had specified 1″ finished. (I am following an online tutorial where the quilter used 60deg diamonds but smaller than mine, and used 1″ finished sashings. I have had some consternation with this pattern that I had drafted in EQ7 and wasn’t getting the expected results with the rotary cutting instructions. Today’s design wall picture is actually from yesterday at Stitchers, before I started sewing the sashings to the diamonds.
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