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Wednesday 2 January 2013

Diamonds are a girl's best friend...

Today I mailed out my Brit Bee fabric parcels.  For a long long time I knew I wanted HSTs again, and I knew I wanted a predominantly orange quilt.  No logical reason for that; it won't go with anything in the lounge or bedroom, but I need an orangey quilt!

I went from random placement, to specific blocks and back to random again, until this mosaic made up my mind, thanks Leanne.  I probably spent the last 6 months snaffling away all the fabrics I wanted to include until it came to crunch time and I had to get cutting.

I didn't have enough orange!!!  So I threw in some of my favourite pinks along with all the text, black and greys I had piled high, and I was even happier.

The block is Diamond Ripples, from 99 Modern Blocks and I already call it Diamond Nipples in my head, we are Brit Bee after all!

So you want to see what it will look like, (or what some of you will be making!), a single 24" block, all cut by my fair hand Sizzix, so none of that HST trimming nonsense...


 I love my block!

And here is an artist's impression of the finished quilt top...


Very excited about this one, and I know the BB ladies will do me proud xxx

28 comments:

  1. oh this is lovely!! Good choice!

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  2. Looking good, and I like the pink, I think it softens it. I have this book too, another one I need to make something from!! : )

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  3. Love the fabrics, but the pre cut no trimming scares me... I rely on the HST trimming to fix the fact that mine are usually so wonky!!! Diamond Nipples... heheheheh :-)

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  4. Love the pink with the orange, reminds me I have an hourglass quilt in those colours! Look forward to playing with these, though like Sarah, I rely in trimming :). Great quilt title too! Lol

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  5. Yippidy doo-dah! Love orange and love your block! It's going to be a fabulous quilt H! Jxo

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  6. it is fab - and the colours really work

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  7. Orange, diamond nipples? You Brit girls know how to live it up!

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  8. I can do diamond nipples. Every HST I piece I will be sniggering. Love it!

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  9. You had me at orange! The other choices look so fab with it and a stunning block :)

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  10. I love doing big blocks - they make me satisfied!

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  11. Wow, its going to be a stunner

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  12. This is quite a quilt! or will be when done. Bless that sizzix!

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  13. Oh, this is going to be fabulous!

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  14. Ha, artists impression! I have to learn to do that so it looks like i have finishes! Love it!

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  15. Holy crap, *grabs bottle of vodka* right, point me at 'em...

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  16. This looks amazing! It will be really stunning and I can't wait to see all the blocks showing up.

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  17. This is going to be a great quilt Hadley! I look forward to seeing how it develops!

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  18. Funny how you need more orange in your life.

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  19. Wow, it looks really good, and the artistic impression of how the complete top will look is impressive. It will be lovely. I really dislike orange. I have made a quilt with it for my brother and sister in law, which looked great, but I just can't love it enough to have it in my house! Your quilt will be lovely though.

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  20. How do you manage to get a 24" block every time!? Well done Hadley - it will be stunning like everything else you do !

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  21. This is going to be such a stunning quilt!

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  22. This looks amazing and will looks great anywhere in the house.

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  23. Loving your diamond nipples Mrs! And that's not a phrase I thought I'd ever think let alone say out loud :-0

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  24. Hm, pink and orange, thats a combo I need to try! I love your block with all your interesting fabric choices. You inspire me to go and play more with my fabric, and that's not a bad thing now, is it? :-)

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  25. yes, it will be so pretty. I think I need to get a sizzix HST die. I think it fits the accuquilt, right

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  26. SPEC-TAC-U-LAR. This is going to be amazing.

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