Diamond borders for quilts

Seminole patchwork tutorial- learn how to enhance a design with rainbow fabric.

Let’s make an other border. This time the border has 2 blocks that are placed on point complete with side triangles and corner triangles. Let’s learn how to make a Jewels border in 3 minutes: Finishe

Discover creative quilt panel border ideas to enhance your quilt projects. Find inspiration and tips for adding beautiful, unique borders.

Summertime, and the quiltin' is easy! Jenny and Natalie have whipped up a fresh Summer Season quilt with a happy scalloped border and a surprise bonus...

During my lectures and workshops, I've had several people ask me how I accomplished curved crosshatching. You can't imagine how very simple it really is. Get ya an arched template and curve away. Right? Right! So, to show you how easy peasy it is, I'm posting pictures of Linda's gorgeous Borders quilt where I did a curved crosshatch in the cream border, and showing you step-by-step how I did this. Linda LaBrot's beautiful Borders Quilt. Pattern is from Winnie Fleming's Borders Class I first…

My shortest post ever...I think! Last night I completed the diamond applique border for my quilt "81". They will be the final border on the quilt. The final step will be to cut the cornerstones and applique something to them....maybe butterflies since there are lots of them flying around the baskets! And if you need a little hexagon inspiration check out Cathy's Hexagon Mandala Quilt on her blog Cabbage Quilts! Doesn't it make you want to make your own mandala quilt? Until I post again…

If you have been reading my blog for a while you will remember that last year I was lucky enough to do a class with Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably. I blogged about the class here. Yesterday I finally finished the quilt we started in that class!! This bird block features the fabric I used to base my colour choices on. I looove this fabric! I love the fan fabric too. I quilted with 2 lines of quilting down each of the borders and a diamond in the centre of each block. A photo taken as the sun…

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This is a quilt pattern "Diamonds All Around" designed to use with "Quilt Stamps". The Quilt stamps stamp the shape and the sewing lines onto the fabric. The Fabric is then cut out and the pieces are matched and sewn on a sewing machine. With this method it gives the look of English Paper Piecing without the hand sewing and in much less time. See tutorials on youtube under sew-n-quilt or search quilt stamps on youtube.These quilt stamps are also available in my Etsy shop. The stamps come in…