Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Diamonds are a girls best friend-Be a diamond blog hop

It's here-my day to blog my diamond project for 'Be a Diamond' blog hop!!  This hop is hosted by Carol of Just Let Me Quilt. There are all sorts of ways to use diamonds in a quilt but when I saw this tutorial at Bonjour Quilts I knew I wanted to make them into a table runner.  Hopefully this will also inspire you to try them.  They are not hard to make at all.


Since it is Kristy's tutorial I won't go into the process but encourage you to check out her tutorial HERE.  You will notice my centers are a little different as I didn't add the third color, I wanted my diamonds to appear see through so I used the background fabric.  By the way these are all Island Batiks that were provided to me for my monthly challenges but I happened to have these leftover from one of the blog hops. 




If one had the half rectangle BlocLoc ruler it would be easy to trim these.  I didn't have the large one but I did have the small one and I figured out a way to work with that.  Here are a couple of pic's showing my method. 
You can see how I laid my small HRT Bloc Loc ruler in one corner and trimmed both edges of this one corner.  


From there I could take a regular ruler and measure my 6.5" x 3.5" and trim up the rest of it.  It's always fun to figure out a way to work with what you have. 



Ahh the perfect backing was just lingering in my stash!


I hope I have inspired you just a little today.  And do remember to check out all the other participants and see what diamonds they have in store for you today.  Thank you Carol for hosting this fun blog hop.


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37 comments:

  1. Beautiful table runner! I love the colors, and your quilting really enhances it well.

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  2. Oh, I LOVE this table runner! I may have to use this idea for my annual Fourth of July runners I make for my family. Yours is beautiful!

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  3. Oh, so pretty! You know I love the blues and greens, so the combo of interesting transparent diamonds and that super backing makes me happy :)

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  4. It's beautiful! I always love your quilting.

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  5. As always Vicki, your table runner is gorgeous!

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  6. Pretty, pretty, pretty! Love your color choices!

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  7. Such a pretty table runner. Love the colors and fabric.

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  8. Beautiful runner and such precise quilting too! That backing is gorgeous! I keep hearing such good things about the block loc rulers but haven't tried one yet. Someday!

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  9. This is stunning with the beautiful fabrics and gorgeous quilting...love it! You really rocked the diamond challenge with this. Thanks for hopping with us!

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  10. What a beautiful table runner. I love the colors! I'm going to have to check out the tutorial!

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  11. What a beautiful table runner. Love the alternating dark/light fabrics you used. Thanks for the tip on trimming large blocks.

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  12. Great way to make that ruler work! Love the quilt and the quilting....thanks for sharing.

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  13. That is so pretty. I love your colors and your quilting on it.

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  14. Those are pretty colors and a great design! I haven't tried HRTs yet - I'm going to have to give them a go one of these days. Thanks for the link to the tutorial!

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  15. WOW! What an awesome table runner.

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  16. Lovely tablerunner. Your quilting has set the diamonds off perfectly.

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  17. Beautiful table runner, love everything about it!

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  18. Great job always fun reading your blog....tytyty for sharing your idea with us.... happyness04431@yahoo.com

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  19. I love your runner with so beautiful diamonds

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  20. Lovely! And your quilting is wonderful.

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  21. Well done. It's great when we work out a way around a problem with what we have.

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  22. WOWzers, this is so pretty, Vicki. Love your diamonds and your runner is perfection.

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  23. Good Morning Vicki! What a great table runner - it does have quite a sparkle to it and those diamonds do appear to be see through. I have been meaning to make a project with half rectangles - boy, it's hard to not say half square rectangles! I'll check out that tutorial, and thanks for the tip about how you used the smaller ruler. Way to make it work, as Tim Gunn would say. ~smile~ Roseanne

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  24. What a beautiful runner! I love how you used your ingenuity to trim up the blocks! Love the colors in this one!

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  25. Absolutely beautiful. I so love the colors.

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  26. Love your table diamond table runner and especially the colors!

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  27. Hi Vicki, your runner is awesome and what great FMQ. I hope that you'll get a chance to link up to Free Motion Mavericks! We'd love to have you join the fun.

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  28. Oh Vicki! Another beautiful runner! Well done!

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  29. Love this, very smart! Love the fabrics, the quilting and your little variations. Perfect! :)

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