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Pieceful Sunday: Girl's Best Friend

4/15/2018

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Picture of Girl's Best Friend Quilt
Girl's Best Friend Quilt, 45" by 53"
This week on Pieceful Sunday, I am showing you how I made the Girl's Best Friend pattern by Quilt in a Day.  I made this quilt as a sample for the workshop that I will be teaching in Tahlequah, OK on Saturday, April 21, 2018. If you live in the area and would like to attend, you can register here. Registration closes on Tuesday, April 17, 2018.

This is a fun pattern that looks challenging, but comes together easily using Quilt in a Day techniques.  The finished size is 45" x 53".

I chose fabrics from my stash. I had some True Blue fabric by Eleanor Burns from Benartex Fabrics. I used light blue, light yellow, dark/medium blue, dark/medium yellow, and a blue and yellow floral border from that line. Then I added white tone-on-tone fabric from my stash for the diamonds and for the first border. Fabrics are shown below. 
Picture of Chosen Fabrics
Chosen Fabrics

After cutting the white fabric into width-of-fabric strips, I cut the diamonds with the diamond template. See photos below. The template is included in the pattern. I also cut the other fabrics into width-of-fabric strips and then into rectangles as directed.
Picture of Removal of End of of Strip
Trim End of Strip with Red Template.
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Cut Diamonds Using Red Template.

The light blue, light yellow, dark/medium blue, and dark/medium yellow large rectangles were ready for assembly. The smaller dark/medium blue and dark/medium yellow rectangles were placed in pairs, wrong sides together, and cut on the diagonal. Putting the wrong sides together before cutting on the diagonal, resulted in two pairs of mirror-image triangles. See photo below.
Picture of Cutting on Diagonal
Put Wrong Sides Together and Cut on Diagonal.
Picture of Mirror Image Pairs
Produces Mirror-Image Pairs of Triangles

The triangles were then sewn to the diamonds in pairs. Two arrangements of diamond-in-rectangles are needed as shown below. The detailed instructions helped with the alignment of the triangles.
Picture of Diamond in a Rectangle 1
Diamond-in-a-Rectangle Arrangement 1
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Diamond-in-a-Rectangle Arrangement 2

Then, I assembled the rectangles and diamond-in-a-rectangles as shown below and added the borders. 
Picture of Girl's Best Friend Quilt Top
Girl's Best Friend Quilt Top

Piecing this quilt top was fun. I look forward to quilting it!

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3 Comments
Tracie link
4/15/2018 07:37:47 am

It’s a beautiful quilt, and your photos make it look easy. Thanks for sharing the process.

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Roseanne link
4/15/2018 08:47:09 am

Hi April,
This looks like a fun class to take - I wish I lived closer. I love EB and used to watch her series on TV each week. She really influenced me in how I quilt although I never got to throw my scraps on the floor like she did. ~smile~ Roseanne

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Carrie link
4/15/2018 09:11:33 am

I love this pattern, I can see so many fun possibilities!

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