Diamond block video tutorial – Colour Fair Down Under QAL

This week it’s time to make Block 2 of Colour Fair quilt along and we’re making a Diamond quilt block.

Get the cutting instructions and other directions on page 6 of the pattern.

After you make this block you’ll have 4 spare half square triangles.

Let’s get to it!

Assembling the blocks

The main things to bear in mind when assembling your blocks are:

Chain piece to speed up the process
When chain piece pay special attention to the seam intersections so they remain flat
Press towards the darker fabric. Press and lift, press and lift so that the pieces don’t stretch
To get perfect points pay attention to where the seams meet when sewing the patches together
Use swirling seams to avoid bulky seams

This video demonstrates the above points:

This other video shows how to do swirling seams on a nine patch block:

Trimming Half Square Triangles

This lesson is very relevant to this block.

Try both and pick your favourite method.

Diamond quilt block - Colour Fair Down Under QAL

How to join the Colour Fair Down Under Quilt Along?

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Have a close look at the project with this promo video:

Schedule

We will start making blocks on Saturday 30 October 2021 and finish them by Christmas.

Then we’ll resume on 8 January 2022 and make the borders.

And finally we’ll finish the quilt with QAYG and be ready to show your finished quilts at the end of January.

22 October – QAL fabric inspiration (bonus video)

23 October – How to trim half square triangles (bonus video)

30 October – 8-pointed star block (bonus video)

13 November – Diamond block (bonus video)
27 November – Cross block (bonus video)
4 December – Whirlpool block (bonus video)

We’ll break for Christmas from 5 December to 7 January. This will allow you to catch up with any sewing you may have missed.

7 January – Top and bottom borders
22 January – Quilt-as-you-go (bonus video)
29 January – Binding

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My book Turnabout Patchwork

“Turnabout Patchwork. Simple quilts with a twist” is all about playing with blocks – making a block, slicing it up, and turning or repositioning the pieces to make a completely different block (sometimes two smaller blocks) to yield endless quilt tops.

See all the quilts in the book in a real life project

2 comments

jessie6413 says:

November 13, 2021 at 3:39 pm

Hi Teresa, I’ve tried to print the corrected page 9 of the pattern off of Etsy but I only get the original where the last steps are hidden. What am I doing wrong? Thanks! Really enjoying this. Watching your videos twos need you are, or would be, great in geometry. God bless, jessie

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TeresaDownUnder says:

November 13, 2021 at 4:35 pm

Hi Jessie, when you go and download the video the filename should end in 13 Nov.pdf
That contains the updated page.

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