Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Diamonds In the Rough

My year of making string quilts started out

with these lovely color family isosceles triangles.

The blocks are coming along nicely.


Smaller amounts of lovely greens and purples,




and yellow, blues and oranges.


Surprisingly, a large amount of browns, 


and the same amount of beige/white units!


Red seems to be the big winner!


They will end up in a few different tops.


It is possible that one will be completely blue,

with maybe a hint of yellow or green thrown into spice it up.

Maybe even black, which always makes the colors pop.

Blue is my largest scrap color 

so there are a lot more scraps to be sewn up. 

There weren't any gray strips lining up

to go into the triangle blocks.

The gray drawer in my storage bin,

has an abundance of strips so I may revise that,

 in order to add gray to one of the colors 

that's a little short on blocks.

That was my initial plan but a 

color wash top would be fun too!

The color piles were moved in to storage bins in 

the workroom to present a bit tidier look for zoom meetings . 

The tidy lightens up the mood too!



Stay Safe and Sew on

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17 comments:

  1. I love to tidy up my room and agree, it lightens the mood. So here's the big question, do you feel you've lightened the scraps with all that work? Sometimes I do...but most of the time I don't! LOL. But you've made good progress and that counts!

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    1. Sometimes I do, and then I receive another bag of scraps!

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  2. Love those triangles! They'll make such pretty quilts. Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss. https://www.inquiringquilter.com/questions/2025/09/24/wednesday-wait-loss-451

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    1. You're very welcome. I think they will turn out well!

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  3. Your string triangles are going to make a great quilt! :)

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    1. I'm gearing up to make a bunch more so I can start assembly. Fun time ahead!

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  4. Oooh, what a lovely collection of strippy triangles! You have a very nice stack of colors and it feels so good to make space in your scrap bins! Well done! Thank you for sharing your inspiring blocks and linking up.

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    1. I definitely need more room in the scrap bins. The diamonds are fun too!

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  5. That's a pile of diamonds, Deb!! I look forward to seeing how you use all of these. Thanks for sharing with us at Monday Musings.

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    1. Retreat is coming and I'll be stitching a bunch more so I can start getting it together , should be a great time!

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  7. Can't wait to see what you do with all those string pieced triangles. It's fun to compare them by height of color pile.

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    1. Yes it is! I'll be making more at the next retreat, fun times ahead!

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  9. You have some fun blocks to play with. Lots of beautiful colors no matter how you arrange them.

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