Crossroads QAL - Diamond Blocks

Here is the next installment of the Fat Quarter Shop's QAL, benefiting March for the Dimes. This block is the diamond block, and was really fun to put together...but once again I raced ahead without paying proper attention and stitched the wrong seams together. They were some of the best points I've ever done! Why oh why?? Hence you can see my lines of unpicking at the top and the bottom. They will be hidden when finally sewn together...

I used a really happy little bird print that I found at Spotlight for this block, and as it was a voile I backed it with white homespun to give it the right weight. I just spray basted the two layers of fabrics together before I cut the pieces out, and treated them as one layer...It worked really well, and you'd never know now that it wasn't the same weight fabric as the ones around it.

This next block is made from two vintage fabrics that came from my husband's grandma. I love using these inherited fabrics as they give so much more meaning to the finished quilt. And tiny florals are just some of my absolute favourites to use, that and that they're blue as well...

This last block is made from some left over florals from my daughter's first full sized quilt that I made for her when she was about 4. The white based one was actually the top sheet from a set called 'Sweet Pea'...and the name is really appropriate. I have about one third of sheet's worth left now, and I still really love it.

I really like the introduction of the grey into this colour scheme. This is from the Modern Paper Background range by Zen Chic, and is one of my all time low volume prints.

But I have to leave you with an amendment to my first series of little house blocks...I made a mistake and left off one corner of the roofs!A kind reader pointed it out, and I saw with amusement while browsing instagram that I wasn't the only person who'd overlooked this little part! And when you have four little squares left over, it's usually sign that something is wrong somewhere...hopefully I'll learn to slow down sometime and get things right the first time...but here they are all fixed now and I'm so glad someone had the heart to tell me! It would have been so annoying to find out too late...