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Diamond Quilt Blocks, Your Quilts, Enjoyable Hyperlinks and Cats

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Happy Sunday, my mates! Here’s the most recent from the stitching room of Bonjour Quilts. Find your self someplace comfortable, seize a cuppa and take a second for your self.

Still Sewing My Diamonds Quilt Blocks

I’m doing nicely with my queen dimension Diamonds within the Deep quilt. There are 4 completely different block sorts on this quilt and I’ve sewn and trimmed three of them. One block group to go after which I’ll be prepared to put all of them out.

Twin sized sewn for my son a few years in the past

For these stitching alongside, keep in mind to maintain all of your strip remainders till the top – they may come in useful. I made a mistake when trimming one block; I by chance trimmed it a half-inch too brief on one facet. D’oh. Luckily I had a remnant of a bigger strip which I used to be capable of sew on after which trim again. Phew!

Here you may see examples of the three completely different block teams I’ve sewn to date. Each is barely completely different in it’s proportion of sunshine to darkish material. This is what’s going to result in the ombré impact when the quilt is put collectively. I’m actually wanting ahead to seeing it.

I’m additionally proud of how the block materials look. I like the little pops of color from the washi tape prints. Before I began the blocks I used to be to-ing and fro-ing about utilizing a contrasting fuchsia print for the centre squares. I used to be fearful the blocks would look somewhat plain.

Ruby Star Society – they do fuchsia so nicely

Now that they’re coming collectively I can see that they appear simply tremendous. I’m completely happy that I’ve saved the intense fuchsia material for the binding. (I additionally purchased a printed pink sheet set to accompany the quilt. I believe the pink distinction will likely be a winner.)

Next e-newsletter I’ll give my hints/suggestions for trimming all of the blocks. Until then, I’ll preserve stitching.

This e-newsletter part kinds a part of my collection on the Diamonds within the Deep quilt. You can discover the earlier a part of the collection right here:

Around the Interwebs…

Entries for the 2026 International Quilt Festival’s judged present are actually open.

Twenty quilts from QuiltCon 2026 have begun their travels to Australia, US, England and France. Check out the schedule here to see in the event that they’re coming to an occasion close to you.

A sad announcement about Make Modern journal closing up store. I’ll be unhappy to see this Aussie e-publication go!

A cute tutorial for a goose decoration. Could be helpful with Easter arising?

If you may have a pile of money mendacity round you would possibly prefer to deal with your self to certainly one of these sewing-themed Dior jewellery pieces.

Analogue and whimsy are sizzling developments this yr. I’ve fallen arduous for this quick and easy craft idea.

Some serene paper craft, textiles with texture and classy colour, stitched constellations with color, eye-catching maximalism.

Reader Quilts…

I all the time like to see quilts you’ve made out of Bonjour Quilts patterns so please preserve sending them in! Either e mail (Kirsty at BonjourQuilts dotcom), or tag me on Facebook or Instagram.

Muriel sewed up a Union Jack cushion from this tutorial over right here.

Karen sewed up this Scrappy Lattice quilt cleverly arranging her colors on the diagonal.

While Meredith’s Scrappy Lattice quilt reveals that blue and white are all the time a good suggestion!

This stunning When You Wish…child quilt (tutorial right here, or full sample right here) was sewn by Rachel. The again reveals off her attractive free movement quilting, carried out on her home machine:

Vicki’s Colour Explosion quilt is so joyful in all these heat material tones.

Some Nice Things

At the second I’m discovering the world information is an alarming mixture of the horrifying, the terrifying and the ridiculous. If you’d prefer to decrease your blood stress a bit, listed here are some enjoyable photographs of our cats (Tigger: orange, Lulu: brown) and our backyard (doing nicely as we’ve had a number of rain this week). Enjoy!

Bougainvillea doing nicely in a pot by the entrance door
Pinwheel shrubs wanting good – hopefully they’ll be a part of up into a correct shrubbery quickly (for Monty Python followers)
Succulent with Australian native viola
Pentas wanting as wholesome as all get-out
Adorable male Sparkling Northern Jumping Spider within the pentas. Cutie pie!
NOOO! Caterpillar poo! Hawk moths have laid eggs so now I’ve to seek out these penta-eating pests.
The port wine magnolia has flowered – such a good looking perfume
Growing over the fence from the neighbour’s. The yellow one is so fairly however sadly an launched species (declared weed).

Take care beautiful readers. I hope you may have as fantastic per week as potential and I look ahead to catching up with you once more quickly.

Until then,

Kirsty x

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