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S.E.X. and Tumbling Blocks revisited

So I took what little Christmas money I had and did a bit more shopping than I should have! DH and I decided to take the kids to the toy store to pick out something with their Christmas money. DD picked out another Dora book and a computer game (and she's only 2!). Luckily for me the toy store just happens to be on the other end of a long line of stores from G Street! Yippee!

So I picked up a pack of new thimbles I wanted to try, made by Clover with leather that wraps around your finger and a little plastic bit in it to keep the needle from piercing through. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but I think once I break it in properly it should work well. I also hit the sale table and picked up some great purple fabric and some LIME fabric with the same shade of purple in it. Then I found a nice piece of red and thought to myself that I should probably go ahead and get the black and white fabrics to go with that red to make a Tumbling Block quilt for a baby....

So, over to the quilting cottons I go and pick up a neat black with stars on it and a white with some kind of kanji writing all over it. Should be interesting when I start putting it together. And I picked up the batting for the baby quilt while I was there (it'll help me remember when to stop piecing blocks since it has the size written right on the package!).

This morning I got a bug that told me I had to make the diamond template for the blocks. I couldn't stop until it was done and I had cut some diamonds out of scrap fabric to test them....so hold on to your hats kids, Momma's on a mission!

I did get the diamond drawn out after only one failed attempt and then cut it out of the plastic template stuff. I've cut out three pieces from some scrapish fabric and I'm going to sew them together this afternoon to test it out. Hmm, should I do more than just 3 diamonds to test the blocks? Maybe if I cut just a few more to see if I can put the blocks together too.....

Yikes! Here I go again! I've got to cut more diamonds. It's madness, I tell you, madness! I can easily understand how Popser manages to write those wonderful narratives about Joan's quilts and quilting expeditions!

What's everyone else working on this New Year?

Dannielle

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Dannielle
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I'm still trying to finish 4 small wall hangings that were meant to be Christmas presents but right now don't have the energy. I've got a cold or flu thanks to a co-worker that came to work sick coughing and sneezing on everything and everyone.

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maryd

OK, take two in Google groups. I hate accessing the groups this way but it's my only choice. Firewalls.... sigh

Hey Danielle!

Sounds like a great G St spree! grin

I love this pattern but the only way I'd ever do it is to do it in strips of triangles and diamonds. Take a look at the picture on this page (Acrobat pdf file):

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Cut the yellow diamonds in half so that they are made up of two 60* equilateral triangles. (Don't forget seam allowance on your template!)

The strips would go together as follows:

(Strip for the far left edge of the tumbling blocks)

yellow triangle (will be trimmed off later) blue diamond yellow triangle turqoise diamond ("pointing" the other direction) yellow triangle blue diamond yellow triangle etc.

The next strip would be assembled as:

yellow triangle (will be trimmed off later) turqoise diamond ("pointing" the same direction as in the first strip) yellow triangle blue diamond yellow triangle turqoise diamond yellow triangle etc.

This would be pretty easy with only three colors. You would need to pay attention to matching up the triangles if you were making a scrappy one... grin

Happy New Year, all!

Cappy Edgewater, MD

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Cappy

When the quilt bug hits, best not to argue! Well done!

Finally started quilting a project that should have been done before the end of the year -people are waiting for a decent photo of it so they can publicize the raffle. So my new goal is the middle of this month -wish me luck! Roberta in D

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Roberta Zollner

I can only access through Google...so I'm used to it!

If I worked this in a strip set, all of my yellow diamonds (in this case) would have an extra seam through the center right? At least, that's the way I have been reading this particular pattern. I am going to hand piece this top, and Y seams don't bother me at all - at least not yet! I'd rather do a Y seam than have the extra seam through the middle of the diamond.

I might be crazy, and if I ever do another tumbling block, I might do it via strip sets on the machine...but I just have to try!

Dannielle

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Dannielle

I tried the strip-piecing method Danielle, and I didn't like the look of that extra seam at all. I'm afraid it was one of those that hit the 'started in class, won't be finished' pile! Not to influence you, simply to give you another thought. I have done so many 'Y' seams now, that I hardly notice them.

In case anyone is interested in 'Y' seams, I treat mine as two short seams and start each in the centre and sew outwards, rather than treating them as one long one with a pivot in the middle. , In message , Dannielle writes

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Patti

Danielle, you might check out Inklingo.com This is a (patent pending) method of printing the seam lines for hand piecing on the back of the fabric, using an ink jet printer. No "papers" or other forms to baste the fabric to/around. Use a regular running stitch, or machine, to join not a whip stitch over the folded edges. Wonderful stuff. I am actually thinking of doing a G'mother's Flower Garden quilt, which I had said I would never do. Linda Franz, of "Quilted Diamonds" developed this and is going great guns with it. The first CD has diamonds, and hexagons and such, in 1 and 2 inch sides sizes.

NAYY, just a happy customer,

Pati, > I can only access through Google...so I'm used to it!

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Pati Cook

I have heard of Inklingo, but couldn't remember the name of it or what it was all about. Now I'm going to have to go looking! This could be more fun than I thought!

Dannielle

Pati Cook wrote:

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Dannielle

I did a test run on some scrap fabrics, and actually found the Y seam incredibly easy. Of course, I'm also the newbie who will jump in with a project three times harder than anyone would suggest I do and find it too easy and move on to something more difficult. Kind of a weirdo that way, but I've never started anything at the beginning...I have to jump at least into the middle if not totally in the deep end!!!!

I'm glad to hear that someone else didn't like that extra seam in there! Just gives me the reassurance that my brain was piecing that together correctly!

Dannielle

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