One Hundred Fourteen

These are the leftover giant diamonds from all the diamond quilts I have made. There are 114 of them. There may be duplicates.

I can tell you all have an idea where this is going. Let me tell you how the idea got started.

AS USUAL, it started with a conversation with my best pal, Julie. She had remarked that I should make a quilt of all my leftover zebra blocks. I replied that I hadn't kept any of them from the first one, Parade of Zebras, (the scrappy version.) Why not? I couldn't remember. But I had a ton of big diamonds, I told Julie. So one thing led to another.

THE QUESTION IS... Can I make a quilt (a decent one, not just a bunch of scraps sewn willy-nilly) using ONLY the 114 diamond blocks in the photograph above.

I already know that you guys are thinking, "Well if anybody can do it, Lynne can..." which is a very nice thought, and certainly a challenge, and the answer is, I dunno, we'll have to see.

So after I finish sewing the Firebird quilt top together (I have 3/4 of the top sewn. I didn't sew all day yesterday. I was reading The Children Return, Bruno Chief of Police #7 from Martin Walker and I wanted to finish it.) I am going to spread the diamonds around and see what happens.

Since I don't like to make two quilts that are the same, this ought to be interesting. My Number One Rule will be to use THOSE DIAMONDS and ONLY those diamonds. I am not going to allow myself to cut one piece of fabric.

We'll see how long that lasts.

Yeah, I know. (Rules are made to be broken and all that crap.)