Cutting Diamonds For Quilting

Cut each color of fabric into 2 x 44 inch strips.

Cutting diamonds for quilting.

Colleen and jean suggest folding your fabric over to cut two diamonds at a time. Just line up the ruler with the strip to cut perfect diamonds. Cut the strip of fabric to the size of diamond needed making sure that the inch seam allowance is added in. This ruler is great for cutting strips of the desired width cutting out diamond or triangle patches and trimming points.

Align the lower cut edge. Whether you quilt every weekend or you re just getting. Cut along the edge of. Click the links below to view tools used.

For my sun rays quilt the border is comprised of diamond units. This video demonstrates how i used the diamond rects tool from studio 180 design for easily. Continue cutting diamond segments as needed for your quilt. Take care to keep the strips parallel to the lines on the cutting mat and to each other.

You can also use the ruler for strips so you don t need one ruler for diamonds and triangles and another for strips. Iron all fabric pieces. For example if a 3 diamond is needed the strip needs to be cut at 3 wide. Cutting a 45 diamond.

Use the cutting guide to align. Orient the strip on your cutting mat so that it is horizontal with the selvedges at the left. Mine is marked with a white diagonal line labeled as 60 degrees. Use the rotary cutter and mat.

Cutting quilt diamonds cut strip correct width for your quilting project. Trim off the selvage. You don t need to be an expert to make something as beautiful as a diamond quilt because this guide provides a list of block and quilt patterns for quilters of all levels. To conserve fabric offset the strips using the cutting guide for reference as shown.

How to sew rows of diamonds in quilting step 1. Rotary cut along the right side of the ruler to cut away the first diamond. For blue lagoon cut strips 51 2 wide using a regular ruler trim the end of the strip at 60 degree angle. Locate a quilting ruler with a 60 degree angle line.

The same steps apply whether cutting a 45 60 or 30 diamond. Position line on the ruler that corresponds to the strip width on the angled edge.