QUILT for John & Jessica - Part Three

QUILT for John & Jessica - Continued Directions

MAKING the DIAMOND CENTER






I used a large variety of patterned and light and dark fabrics to make the over-size diamond shapes featured in the center of this quilt.   

After grouping fabric into 4 groups of light and 4 groups of dark, I cut them into 11" strips of varying widths and sewed them together. From the fabric sewn from strips I cut out the triangles and put them together to make the diamond shape. See Kaffe Fassett's book, Simple Shapes-Spectacular Quilts (2010) for more specifics.

Dark orange and pink strips sewn together

Dark blue-green strips sewn together.