![]() If you are stitching along please share what you do in either of the Crazy Quilt Divas and Crazy Quilt International groups on Facebook. The last little detail runs alongside patch 6 at the bottom of the block I used a small scrap of hand-dyed lace along the edge and placed a vintage button in the middle. When you piece the diamonds into blocks you will break your sewing machine needle if it hits anything hard. Make sure you keep beads away from the edge of the diamond. When you come to piecing your diamonds into blocks you don’t want to be dealing with bulky diamond tips or corners. When foundation piecing your diamonds, try and make sure that you don’t have a seam ending at one of the points of the diamond. Embellish the blocks as you see fit and have fun - there are no rules in Crazy Quilting! Remember, when embellishing your diamonds, feel free to follow what I have done, or adapt my ideas to your liking. You can find Curved Foundation Piecing here If you need a tutorial on curved piecing take a look at a tutorial written by Allison Aller. I advise you to use Adobe Acrobat™ as a PDF reader (it’s free). When you print them out, they should have 6-inch sides. Do not use the ‘fit to page’ option as it will reduce the diamonds by half an inch or so. Be sure to set your printer to print to the actual size. The pdfs are to scale, but have no seam allowances. ![]() Here is the light tone diamond 1 pattern, the mid tone diamond, and the dark tone diamond 3 can be found here. ![]() You can download the patterns for the three diamonds that make up tumbling block 8. ![]()
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