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Diamond Brights Quilt

Posted on May 17, 2020October 24, 2020

I was looking at the entries in a linky party on Friday and I saw a picture of the Fresh Diamond quilt in several colourways on the Samelia’s Mum blog. I had seen the quilt before but here Anorina showed it mocked up on EQ8 with some dark fabric as the background. It immediately caught my eye and I spent my workday thinking about making it. I’ve wanted to do a triangle quilt for someone and why not now as a long weekend project?  Immediately, I  thought of making it with a dark background  and scrappy brights.  I knew had squares already cut from other projects and enough yardage of a charcoal grey background to make this work.

So after work I confirmed that while I had quite a few squares already cut I didn’t have enough solids/tone on tones to make this work without cutting more. Then I we went back and read the pattern.  My squares are the wrong size by 1/2 an inch but so long as I don’t mind a quilt a slightly different size than hers, that was no reason start cutting from scratch.  So my quilt would be a bit smaller. No big deal I can always add a column or row or just have a quilt that’s slightly smaller.

I started cutting the background and the extra squares I needed and before I knew it I was sewing them together.

Sewing the was fun, the trimming afterwards not so much but it went relatively fast

Time to start laying them out.

I was working on this layout with Marc and he was going on about how I always do random scrappy.  He said why didn’t I do something different this time. So I changed the placement of the colours and came up with this layout

We both liked this layout better than the first one. I have to say laying out the blocks did take some time. It took me a while to grasp in terms of the orientation of the half square triangles.

So I started sewing blocks together, then rows etc. I have to admit Jack came out to play once or twice when I  rotated a piece or two by accident. Sadly though it was Jack the Ripper and not Jack Daniels that came out. A good thing though as I wouldn’t have kept anything straight with even a drop of alcohol in my system.

I ended up adding a few rows to the original pattern.

To finish it off I added a border the width of my blocks.  Marc suggested I carefully thumbtack the quilt to our fence for pictures!

I’m calling this my Diamond Brights quilt top.  I’m now deciding whether to try quilting it at home or waiting until the quilting studio where go  reopens. I have to check the stash but if I recall correctly, I have something that wil coordinate nicely to use for backing.

I’d say my biggest question is what to do next, but for the state my sewing room is now in. Cleaning up and putting away fabric is next on the agenda.

24 thoughts on “Diamond Brights Quilt”

  1. Bonnie in Va says:
    May 17, 2020 at 11:53 pm

    Definitely a yummy quilt. I really like your bright colors.

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  2. Jayne says:
    May 18, 2020 at 10:04 am

    I love the colors and so glad you went with this layout! It’s beautiful!

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  3. Rebecca Grace says:
    May 18, 2020 at 12:35 pm

    Are you serious — you just discovered this pattern on Friday and three days later, you’ve cut, pieced, and assembled the entire quilt top?!!! WOW. This looks great and will surely be fun for you to quilt. Isn’t it funny how a particular quilt pattern is popping up here and there and it doesn’t do anything for us — until we see it in a different colorway and then we have to make it RIGHT AWAY? 🙂

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  4. Vicki in MN says:
    May 18, 2020 at 7:29 pm

    Oh my this is so striking with the brights and black! I like the setting you came up with.

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  5. Sally says:
    May 19, 2020 at 11:15 am

    I really like the layout you ended up with. Very pretty quilt!

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  6. Frédérique says:
    May 19, 2020 at 12:44 pm

    Bright and beautiful quilt!

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    1. Frédérique says:
      May 19, 2020 at 5:21 pm

      Thank you for linking up your lovely quilt 😉

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  7. Dione says:
    May 20, 2020 at 8:18 pm

    Oh wow! This looks terrific. How your colours sing with the black. I am also impressed with idea to top in a long weekend – that’s the way to do it!

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  8. pat says:
    May 22, 2020 at 3:58 pm

    so cute and so many ways to layout. Love it!

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  9. The Joyful Quilter says:
    May 22, 2020 at 4:15 pm

    I’m SEW glad you listened to Marc (and, in your defense, I would normally choose random scrappy, too!!)

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  10. Anorina Morris says:
    May 22, 2020 at 7:46 pm

    Oh my goodness! I absolutely love your rainbowy layout of this quilt. It looks stunning and I look forward to seeing how you decide to quilt it.

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  11. Sylvia Adair says:
    May 24, 2020 at 8:22 am

    What a beautiful quilt! I can see why this design caught your eye. Your layout is great, and the colors really stand out!

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  12. Chantal L. says:
    May 24, 2020 at 8:25 am

    Well done. I love it too. ;^)

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  13. Diann Bottrell says:
    May 24, 2020 at 10:43 am

    That is a gorgeous quilt! Definitely a “drop everything and make it” project!

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  14. Glapha Cox says:
    May 24, 2020 at 12:34 pm

    I really like this quilt. I

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  15. Wendy F says:
    May 24, 2020 at 2:13 pm

    Your quilt is stunning! I love the bright colors against the charcoal.

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  16. Christina E Rhebergen says:
    May 24, 2020 at 4:48 pm

    LOVE the rainbow layout and the dark background. Wonderful! Are you going to redo the twisted blue and purple square or leave it in for fun?

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  17. Jennifer @ Inquiring Quilter says:
    May 24, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    Wow this is so lovely! The layout of colors really makes this special. Can’t wait to see how you quilt it. Thanks for sharing on Wednesday Wait Loss.

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  18. Cynthia Brunz says:
    May 24, 2020 at 11:49 pm

    It looks great! Thanks for sharing with Oh Scrap!

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  19. Michelle @ From Bolt to Beauty says:
    May 25, 2020 at 8:01 am

    I don’t know if I’ve ever used a dark background before, but that’s what makes this such a stunner! And the layout is perfect — well done!

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  20. Jenny Benton says:
    May 25, 2020 at 4:45 pm

    This is stunning, I like this version so much better than random placement.

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  21. Alycia Quilts says:
    May 27, 2020 at 10:28 am

    Oh ya!! that is a spectacular layout!!

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  22. Denise says:
    May 27, 2020 at 11:00 am

    Envious of all the bright quilts everyone is making and sharing right now, I guess it really is spring. I love the planned layout over the scrappy random, it really brings out the beauty of the quilt. Thank you for linking up to Put your foot down.

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