{"id":7480,"date":"2011-01-12T12:45:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T19:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2016-11-29T17:52:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:52:11","slug":"diamond-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/diamond-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Last<\/a>
Last 2010 FOTY Diamonds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Above is the last group of diamonds for 2010. Hopefully, I have to count and make sure I have the right number to make some kind of even quilt.<\/p>\n

\"Background<\/a>
Background Testing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My first order of business was to decide on the border fabric. I had an idea in my mind and, luckily for me, I think it worked. I pulled a selection of diamonds and laid them out on a large piece of Michael Miller Ta Dot in Stone.<\/p>\n

\"Sample<\/a>
Sample diamonds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TFQ suggested that I make a sample piece to test the size of the finished diamonds. I have been working on this piece and really got going the other day. I got out the rulers and started cutting. After cutting a side piece, I realized that the Tri Recs ruler was the wrong angle! Duh!<\/p>\n

\"Wrong<\/a>
Wrong angle!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I didn’t have a chance to get a new ruler before the BAMQG meeting on Saturday, so I went with paper templates and the Fast2Cut rulers. I am not cutting around the paper templates, but used one for a guide for the side triangles. I found a sweet spot on one of the Fast2Cut rulers for the bottom triangles.<\/p>\n

\"Fast2Cut<\/a>
Fast2Cut strip triangle cutting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got the idea of cutting this way from all the Fons and Porter I have been watching. I was able to cut about 14 triangles from each strip, which made the cutting go very quickly.<\/p>\n

\"Corner<\/a>
Corner Final?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Above is what I ended up with. I am not sure about those chopped off corner angles, but I will see if they when I do the test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Above is the last group of diamonds for 2010. Hopefully, I have to count and make sure I have the right number to make some kind of even quilt. My first order of business was to decide on the border fabric. I had an idea in my mind and, luckily for me, I think it … Continue reading “Diamond Progress”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[400],"tags":[224,17,353],"class_list":["post-7480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-400","tag-fabric-of-the-year-2010","tag-foty","tag-process"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}