{"id":7639,"date":"2011-01-28T05:19:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T12:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=7639"},"modified":"2016-05-23T20:42:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:42:27","slug":"diamond-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/diamond-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Test"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Finished<\/a>
Finished Diamond Test Piece<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I spent some time yesterday working on the test piece. I wanted to get into the groove of sewing diamonds again. The Eye Spy feels like a long time ago. Now I think I have a better idea of the sewing, though matching the points and sides of the diamonds proved challenging. I found a book that had some tips and will take a look at that before I start the piecing.<\/p>\n

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

The left hand corner section of the above photo is pieced. You can see the piece getting smaller as I piece it. There are two diamonds in the machine, which is why there is a big white space in the photo.<\/p>\n

Aside from matching the points, I also had some trouble with the border diamonds and corners. As a result, I think I will start in the center and piece outwards. I’d like to piece the diamonds in chunks and it might work better to start piecing them in groups of four. I’ll try it and see.<\/p>\n

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Finished Test Piece with Comparison Diamond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I didn’t measure the finished diamonds, but you can see the significant change in size. It will be interesting to see the big piece develop.<\/p>\n

\"Finished<\/a>
Finished Test Piece with Comparison Diamond Overlay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To give you another view, I have overlaid the patch\/unfinished diamond on top of the finished piece so you can see the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent some time yesterday working on the test piece. I wanted to get into the groove of sewing diamonds again. The Eye Spy feels like a long time ago. Now I think I have a better idea of the sewing, though matching the points and sides of the diamonds proved challenging. I found a … Continue reading “Diamond Test”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[377,224,17,331,353,344],"class_list":["post-7639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-400","tag-fabric-of-the-year","tag-fabric-of-the-year-2010","tag-foty","tag-piecing","tag-process","tag-tests"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639","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=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}