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.

April 22

Needled Mom

Keepsake Moments

Kathy’s Quilts

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Color, Creating, and Quilting

April 23

Ms P Designs USA

Vroomans Quilts

Marjorie's Busy Corner

Melva Loves Scraps

Storied Quilts

Words & Stitches

Clever Chameleon Quilting

Songbird Designs

April 24

MooseStashQuilting

Beaquilter

Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting (that's me)

Creative Blonde 

Selina Quilts

Bumbleberry Stitches

Two Maker Chicks

Quilts By Joanne

April 25

Patchouli Moon Studio

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Hill Valley Quilter

Mageez Room

Websterquilt

High Road Quilter
Seams To Be Sew

April 26

Creatin' in the Sticks

Cynthia's Creating Ark

Days Filled With Joy

For The Love Of Geese

Quilt Fabrication

Stitchin At Home

                                                   Just Let Me Quilt

Linking with Let's Bee Social, Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Free Motion Mavericks and NTT

You all left so many kind words about my strawberry runner that I hurried up and quilted and bound it right away.  No UFO or WIP with this one!

 I kept seeing crosshatching in the center because of the angle of the leaves so I went with it. 

 And it seemed natural to continue with it in the checkerboard border.

 The scrappy strawberry received some loops, and leaf shapes in the green HST's.  I just could not get them to show up in the pics.

 And the perfect green and white print for the backing was in the stash, well all of the fabric came from the stash:)

But I didn't stop there, nope I was on a roll yesterday!  The second pineapple runner got finished too. 

 Everything is the same as the first one except for a different gold fabric for the border.

 And the backing fabric was different also.

I hope you will come back tomorrow as I will be posting a quilting book review.  Oh it's a good one you won't want to miss!

Another thing you won't want to miss is the Be a Diamond blog hop starting on April 22 going through the 26th.  I have my project ready and will be blogging on the 24th.