Some friends were taking this class last year, so I signed up too.
I love the look, but the strip pieced blocks were thick and heavy, in part because of so many seams and in part because they were constructed on interfacing.
In any case, the quilt was too bulky for the friend who usually does our donation quilts. So I got it back from her 6 months later and sent it to Nancy, who definitely had done this type of quilt before.
It’s quilted with gold thread and one of my favorite pantos, Bauhaus. I’m happy with it and will be happy to get it donated!
Here it is folded so that some of everything shows
Quilt Stats
Name: Strip Diamonds
Pattern: Proprietary to the woman who taught the class, though I’m sure you can find something similar.
Finished size: 60″ x 70″
Pieced by: me
Quilted by: Nancy Nelson
And in the meantime, my friend Michele needed her pants mended so we used some scraps from a quilt she’s making!
Visible mending is currently fashionable, fortunately for us!
Do you mend clothing, or leave that chore for someone else?
Zippy Quilts 
The clay/rust binding is a nice finishing touch for this scrappy quilt.
I’ve made string diamonds so the strings are the “V” with the wings just fabric. And now that I seem to be in a thrifted-shirts phase I’m looking at a Bonnie Hunter pattern that uses shirt strings for both the V and the wings. (I think hers are on tear-away paper, though, which would cut down on bulk though contribute tedium.)
I don’t rip clothing very often so not much mending to do. The visible mending trend reminds me of hippie-era embroidery.
Haha! I did some of that hippie-era embroidery and I bet you did, too!
The strip diamond pattern is one of my favorites, and yours is lovely. I used a process demonstrated in a video on YouTube and used old phone book pages for my tear-away foundation. My quilt ended up being slightly heavy, but I still like it.
I’m fine with mending a bit, but I don’t really like sewing garments anymore. I’d much rather quilt. Hubby isn’t too hard on his clothes, so I don’t have to mend much. He does want his annual Christmas shirt, but I’ve managed to put that off for 2 years!
Nice! I haven’t made the hubster a shirt since we were in college. And I’m with you on quilts instead of making clothes for the most part. I do make some clothes, but the quilts are more likely to fit!
I use unscented dryer sheets. They zig zag together like frankenbatt. (Dollar store). Making quilts this way for Salvation Army.
Love the pants!
Hi Betti! Haven’t seen you lately. Thanks for the idea.
Ooh, this is my favorite kind of quilt, where you can sit and study all the permutations of the color combinations for hours. I especially love the strong stripes and dots scattered throughout. It is gorgeous!
Thank you. It was fun to arrange all those fabrics, and to trade fabrics with friends in the class.
That’s a beautiful quilt. Such a cool use of scraps.
I don’t tend to mend clothes. They go from work suitable to the gardening/painting pile and by the time I am done gardening in them they are beyond repair. Things don’t seem to last like they used to.
Thanks, Helen. Now that I’m retired I wear the same thing all the time, so there’s no progression from good clothes to garden clothes!
This is an intriguing version of the SpiderWeb block. I’ve only made blocks for friends while in quilting bees, but never a full-fledged version of a quilt. This puts you in stellar category, in my book. Beautiful quilt, and I love that panto, too.
I think I’m sort of like Helen, on the mending clothes: nice to “Saturday” to rag bag. I do mend the church-level clothes, but they don’t get used as much. I’d rather sew a new dress, than mend anything, so maybe I just look sort of ill-put-together most of the time?
Ha! I’m mostly past worrying about whether I look ill-put-together. Thanks for liking the quilt!
Gold thread sounds perfect for quilting that quilt! It is a really cool quilt and someone is going to love it!
Thank you 😀
That strip diamond pattern is hectic!
That’s a nice, bright mend.
Yes, it is very busy. It was fun to make but I won’t be using it in my house!