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Quilt Finish: Colorful Diamonds Quilt

12/4/2019

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In August 2018, I ordered this fun (above), colorful bundle of Kona fabrics from Stash Fabrics in preparation for a class with Tara Faughnan at Sewtopia Milwaukee.  We were going to be learning her "Diamonds Quilt" pattern and I wanted mine to be bright and fun - and super colorful!
(See the end of this post for the list of Kona colors that I ordered from Stash Fabrics).
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I pulled a few more yellows, pinks, purples, reds and oranges from my stash and ended up with this bundle for the quilt. I was working with the idea of warm, summery, tangy sherbet tones for my inspiration.
Making a triangle (or diamond) quilt had been on my mental "to try" list for a bit, but I was a little nervous to try piecing an entire quilt full of triangles with bias edges.  Tara's pattern uses freezer-paper piecing to ensure that those bias edges don't stretch, and points line up and aren't cut off. It was my first time working with freezer paper for piecing and it was a slick way to piece.
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To make my "blocks" (partial rows really) for this quilt I didn't pre-plan color combos. I pulled from my pile of fabrics and made color decisions as I worked along.  When I ran out of a certain color I went back to my stash and pulled a similar colored fabric, or sometimes introduced new ones. In the picture of my "final" fabric pull above, there are over 30 colors of fabrics. However I'm betting that there might be closer to 40 different colors of fabrics in this quilt.  I'm calling it my "Colorful Diamonds Quilt."
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I decided to hand-quilt this quilt and had my long-arm quilter "baste" it for me with straight lines.
For some of my hand-quilting lines, I ripped out the basting stitches and hand-quilted following the stitch holes.  For the rest of my quilting, I measured from the basting lines and laid down strips of masking tape to follow along as a guide.  Having the quilt basted on a long-arm made it a lot easier than than pin- basting and marking the whole quilt with straight lines! 
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I used Hobbs Tuscany wool batting for this quilt and backed it in a sour Michael Miller green solid fabric. You guys - it was like butter to quilt. The needle glided through each stitch so easily!  Now it is so light, soft and cushy.
When I got to choosing binding fabric for this quilt, I ended up going with a solid red.  I love the end result, but I've decided that this is more of a bright Christmas quilt (not a summery sherbet quilt).
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I made my quilt a little bigger than the quilt in Tara's pattern, so it finishes at 70" x 72".
To see more of my work-in-progress pictures, check out #colorfuldiamondsquilt.
Thanks for reading along, and here is the list of the 12 original Kona solids that I bought from Stash Fabrics. Do you know that they carry every Kona color??
Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton Color Names:
Palm
Artichoke
Peapod
Oasis
Punch
Mediterranean
Ivory
Pomegranate
School Bus
Salmon
Grass Green
Smoke
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Marci Glenn
12/4/2019 12:31:30 pm

I just love how this quilt makes me smile. The colors a fabulous!! I have not tried freezer paper piecing, but this quilt seems like a great place to learn that. Thank you for the inspiration.

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