Kaffe fassett diamond quilts

Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year Well we're now three days into 2021and I think we can all agree that 2020 was an "annus horribilis" to quote the words spoken by Queen Elizabeth II in a Guildhall speech 1992 to describe that year! Time will tell whether this coming year will be any better, let's hope so although I fear it will be a heck of a long time before we can refer to a year, hopefully not too far distant, as an 'annus mirabilis' which means wonderful year. You will have noticed…

Finished! It will be displayed in a Kaffe themed quilt show at Island Quilter on Vashon Island through the month of February. (Blogged at here2thereart.com)

Waltzing Matilda, now lives with Megan, in Sydney Australia. All Together Now, a Scrap Slab quilt, made with scraps and from my stash. You can get the tutorial here at my Etsy Shop. Aquamarine, a Zebra quilt. You can get the tutorial here, at my Etsy Shop. Yellow Ribbons, another Zebra Quilt. You can get the tutorial here. . Fifty-Eight Carats. Made with big diamonds and giant prints. Garden Party, a quilt for a friend of my dad's, a Lady Priest named Marjorie. The Holiday Quilt with my…

I'm still here! I'm nearly caught up with my long list of things that needed to get done! I did manage to sneak in some time to finish this quilt started at the workshop. I didn't want to leave it too long to finish so that I would keep the momentum I had from attending the class with Kaffe Fassett. I have to say, that though this quilt looks so deceivingly simple in design, there is actually quite a bit involved. I had it on the design wall for two weeks, cutting and adding to it…

Struggling with how to choose quilt colors? Ecplore rainbows, color blocking and monochromatic color schemes to get inspiration for your next quilt.

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Pattern is Diamond Delight from Kaffe Fassett's book "Quilts in Morocco".

green diamond class with Kaffe Fassett in Gröbern, Germany thus August

Bordered Diamonds is such a great pattern. The original pattern is in Simple Shapes, Spectacular Quilts by Kaffe Fassett, but that book is out of print now, so I've been using Midnight Diamonds from Quilts in Burano by Kaffe Fassett. I think the patterns are the same, but I haven't got out my ruler to check. I've had fun mixing the fabrics and applying borders to the fussy cut blocks. I especially like the big Cactus Flower block above, surrounded by the blue section of the Diamond Stripe…