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I agree. Someday, I am going to feel confident enough to make diamonds quilt. Or may be someone will develop a magic method for piecing them :-) Good Luck in your endeavors!!!
Originally Posted by ManiacQuilter2
(Post 6741029)
I personally RUN from any pattern with diamonds. Everything has to be absolutely perfect. Your cutting, your seams and where you pin the two diamonds together for a seam. That is why there are notches in the diamond rulers so they the cut pieces are placed correctly. Pressing can also wonk a diamond out of shape. Hope you starched your fabric well.
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Originally Posted by crocee
(Post 6741767)
Woo Hoo I've finally got the idea of what I'm doing. I've got 9 of 48 diamonds cut and things are rolling along smoothly. Thank you ALL for your tremendous help. I'm sure I'll be back shortly with other questions.
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Originally Posted by bearisgray
(Post 6741808)
Try laying them out now to make sure that they are doing what you expect/want them to.
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You "lose" quite a bit when the pieces are put together.
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Thanks. The squares are "supposed" to be 10" but I think they might be a tad bigger in the end. The 3 star blocks will determine the width of the pad so it won't be a huge thing to enlarge.
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Why are you piecing canvas....just wondering......
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Its for a show pad on a horse. Regular cotton quilting fabric would fall apart after the first show.
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I could never make a lone star quilt even took a class once seams never matched I got the Eleanor Burns book on it and was very easy never had a problem after that and did not use a special ruler but Eleanor always has wonderful instructions and her books are wirth the price
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Originally Posted by dunster
(Post 6741361)
Diamonds can be of many shapes. You need to know the angles for the diamonds you are trying to make. cjsews suggests a 45 degree angle, Kat sews suggests 60 degrees - your diamond is probably one of these, but you must measure to know for sure.
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One way to do diamond is the English paper piecing - I am doing it for the tumbling blocks. For a test I did a star - it worked very well.
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