Quilted Diamonds 2

Description

Quilted Diamonds 2 – more Austen-tatious diamonds to hand piece includes a DVD with a 2-hour hand piecing lesson for the price of the book alone. That is why I usually recommend it first.

Alternative Title: “You can sew anything that you can draw, trace, or print on freezer paper.”

The QD method uses freezer paper templates and a running stitch. It is faster, simpler, more precise, and more portable than English Paper Piecing. It is my favorite technique although I also enjoy machine piecing and appliqué with Inklingo.

And then. . . QD1 and QD2 inspired me to invent Inklingo.

Freezer Paper Templates

The pre-Inklingo hand piecing technique taught in the books is wonderful and it is still the technique I prefer to use when I print the shapes on fabric with Inklingo.

I teach the freezer paper template method for hand piecing in Quilted Diamonds 1 and Quilted Diamonds 2—but only for hand piecing and appliqué—because the shapes are so small. However, the same freezer paper method applies to machine piecing, so I still recommend freezer paper templates when shapes are not available from Inklingo (yet).

Trace from the book or Print from Electric Quilt with the Optional CD

If you have Electric Quilt software (EQ4 or newer), you may want to add the optional CDs of patterns, at $10.00 each, so you can print the QD patterns on freezer paper, instead of tracing on freezer paper from the book.

At the time the books were published, EQ4 was the latest thing from Electric Quilt.  Now we use EQ8! In 2002, I was the first author or publisher to offer an optional CD, so quilters could print instead of trace. It was revolutionary.

The QD CDs are $10 extra. The CDs do NOT allow you to print on fabric in the way we do for Inklingo. It would be a mess of black ink everywhere because EQ does not print the outlines in anything but black ink—the worst!

From the back cover of Quilted Diamonds 2

I am proud of the cover design on all of my books. (IMHO, I am good at covers.) The back cover tells you that the book includes:

• 101 new diamonds named with quotations from Jane Austen’s novels
• detailed, illustrated directions for hand piecing with freezer paper templates
• each diamond is shown in three fabric combinations AND from the back
• step-by-step instructions and ideas for a variety of settings
• 700+ photos in addition to the lesson on DVD (10 minutes)
• optional CD of patterns, for use with Electric Quilt software (EQ4 or newer)

Wow. That is a lot but the cool thing about it is that the images on the back cover show the diamonds on the front cover from the back.  Cool, eh?

By the way, I used the same idea on the CD and DVD labels. The CD shows detail of the diamonds from the front (at the design stage) and the DVD shows the diamonds from the back (for the process of hand piecing).

Postage

Postage is exactly what I pay without a handling fee. April 2025 Update  I can often fit two or three different books in one flat-rate Priority envelope to make maximum use of postage. Your book will be mailed from Niagara Falls NY.

Since 2002, all of my books have been proudly Printed in Canada.