My friend Melissa over at Sew Bittersweet Designs has designed a new pattern called Dizzying Diamonds and today is the official release!  I'm so excited for her.
 


A few months back she asked me to test the pattern for her and of course I don't know how to say no.  I think my husband would even agree with me on that statement.

Anyways I expanded  Melissa's pattern since again I can't just leave things alone. I have to make them a bit more challenging and if deciding on the layout wasn't enough I just had to make mine to fit my bed.


I added 2 extra rows to the left and right sides and one extra row to the top and bottom for a finished top size of  84" wide and 96" long.

For my prints I used Simply Color by V. and Company.  When picking the contrasting solid I asked for my husband's opinion.  He choose 'green', I decided upon the Peridot from Kona.  It is a great pattern,  Melissa makes all of those half square triangles (HST's) so easy and fast to do.  I used approximately 1.5 layer cakes of each the print and the solid.

Melissa, thanks so much for allowing me to test our your pattern. It was a great experience and you have a great talent for writing them.

If anyone is looking for a challenging but easy pattern this is the one.  

Fabric hoarding collecting must run on both sides of my family.  My half-sister who lives out of state sent me these beauties that she was holding on to for a quilt one day along with some pattern books, magazines and a package of queen sized batting.   She finally decided on a pattern she liked enough to to involve all of these pretties.  My job is to make her that quilt and I'm happy to oblige.  My goal for December is to get all of this pressed, cut, and the top sewn together.  This should be quite the chore since in 3 weeks my kids will be on break for 2 whole weeks and I will have to entertain them.  I also must do my holiday sweet making, it wouldn't be Christmas without a sugar overload right?