Thursday, again no school. Spent the time cleaning snow and trying to line up diamonds. With scraps from my stash, I tried out diamonds with sashing and diamonds without sashing. Too much guesswork in lining them up. Wish there was an easier way. Though it might help to actually read/watch a tutorial on how to sew them. :)
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| It only took ten attempts of pinning and ripping to get these lined up. |
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| These never made it lined up; I gave up. |
Friday, I decided my quilting room needed a make-over. I have too many projects as WIP, due to several considerations, not the least my own attention span, and they were getting jumbled. So I went to Target and bought lots of containers.
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| My favorite of which are the large clip box, because they are big enough to hold finished blocks and long enough to hold strips of yardage waiting to be cut. |
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| These stackable friends are good for the pieces in process, from sewing machine to cutting board to ironing board, thought not in that order. |
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| And here is my true blue quilt taking up a hundred containers: 18 blocks down, 22 to go. |
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| I love containers, they keep the pieces straight: hourglass on the left, HST on the right. |
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Now, about the floor... |
Never, ever, can you have too many containers!
ReplyDeleteAre the diamonds hard b/c of the bias? Strip piecing might be easier in terms of construction... but harder to get a random look. So when are you going to construct a big floor to ceiling design wall? :)
ReplyDeleteDiamonds.... They're hard because of all that time they spent in the volcanic heat and compression. :)
ReplyDeleteI found it not to be the bias, but lining up the points. Unlike a square or triangle, where you make the edges meet up, the diamonds' points are offset by some undetermined amount.
I did strip piece some together and they came out beautifully, it was trying to piece the strips together... Not so fun.
I guess I should research the design wall... :)