{"id":67426,"date":"2025-08-11T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=67426"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:39:30","slug":"diamond-test-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/diamond-test-blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Test Blast from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a recent guild meeting, we talked about themes for the Fair challenge. One idea was an ugly fabric challenge. Been there done that. I am not a fan. <\/p>\n

\"Diamond<\/a>
Diamond Test Piece<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I was rummaging for the Handbag Sampler a few weeks ago, I found a few small pieces and some blocks about which I had forgotten. One of the pieces was a diamond test I worked one before I made the Fabric of the Year 2010<\/a> quilt and to test a border idea for one of the Bullseye quilts<\/a>. I also found a post<\/a> about it. I thought it was older, but I guess 15 years is old enough. This test was made with ugly fabrics. I think the outer brown might be a Civil War print. Yuck.<\/p>\n

I didn’t remember making this when I saw it and knew I wasn’t going to make it the center of a quilt. I decided to make it into a donation quilt. My mantra is “someone will like it” whether I like it or not. <\/p>\n

\"Diamond<\/a>
Diamond test with borders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The color scheme was a bit depressing to me. That is one reason why I am not excited about an ‘ugly fabric’ challenge. I decided to pull out the greens. The more subtle greens in the background of the border print are hard to see, but the odd greens I found worked very well. I used a lot of green not only to make the quilt a decent size, but also to overwhelm the brown.<\/p>\n

\"Diamond<\/a>
Diamond test with outer borders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The piece wasn’t quite big enough, so I found some browns that weren’t hideous and added some additional strips. I didn’t have enough to put on both sides. I used two different prints that are similar colors.<\/p>\n

The brown borders are ok. And I’ll be able to say I used some brown. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"Diamond<\/a>
Diamond test back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The back was with the test piece. it started as that beige with the stripes around three sides. It was small, so I made it larger as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At a recent guild meeting, we talked about themes for the Fair challenge. One idea was an ugly fabric challenge. Been there done that. I am not a fan.  When I was rummaging for the Handbag Sampler a few weeks ago, I found a few small pieces and some blocks about which I had forgotten. … Continue reading “Diamond Test Blast from the Past”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[137,355,72],"class_list":["post-67426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-bamqg","tag-doing-good","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67444,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67426\/revisions\/67444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}