{"id":16448,"date":"2025-03-31T10:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T08:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/2025\/03\/31\/diamonds-are-a-girls-best-friend\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:42:31","slug":"diamonds-are-a-girls-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/en\/2025\/03\/31\/diamonds-are-a-girls-best-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds are a girl’s best friend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My dear friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continuing with my sewing of The Birthstone Series by MJ Kinman, this time I worked on the April birthstone – diamond. The pattern has eight sections and eleven colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the previous post, I wrote about techniques using freezer paper, a method the author of the pattern recommends. I decided to replace it with the FPP method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just like the previous pattern, this also came with two prints-one on regular paper and one on freezer paper.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I scanned every block, enlarged about 30%, printed and added \u00bc \u201c  stitch allowance.<\/p>\n\n\n

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fot. Sylwia Haluch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I prepared the color chart.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And I started sewing. I wrote in detail about the FPP method HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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fot. Sylwia Haluch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Using the printout that came on regular paper as help, I arranged the sewn blocks according to the plan, creating sections.<\/p>\n\n\n

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fot. Sylwia Haluch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

As you can see, the referenced points are precisely marked. So, this is how I sewed all sections and connected them one after the other, creating the whole piece.<\/p>\n\n\n

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fot. Sylwia Haluch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I cut a heart shaped hole in the background fabric (at least \u00bc\u201d smaller than the diamond heart). There is also two-sided fusible web around the edges. I put it on my diamond heart and ironed it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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fot. Sylwia Haluch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I quilted it, and now it\u2019s ready to shine, and remember a diamond is forever.<\/p>\n\n\n

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fot. Sylwia Haluch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The size of the quilt is 63x58cm (25\u201dx23\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My dear friends. Continuing with my sewing of The Birthstone Series by MJ Kinman, this time I worked on the April birthstone – diamond. The pattern has eight sections and eleven colors. On the previous post, I wrote about techniques using freezer paper, a method the author of the pattern recommends. I decided to replace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708],"tags":[581,583,607,585,664],"class_list":["post-16448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sylwia-ii-en","tag-art-en","tag-artquilt-en","tag-patchwork-en","tag-quilt-en","tag-quilting-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18955,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16448\/revisions\/18955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylaquiltartist.pl\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}