Hello and welcome to day one of the Diamond Traditions Book Tour.
Diamond Traditions is the latest book by Monique Dillard of Open Gate Quilts published by C&T Publishing. This is Monique's 3rd book, following Fat Quarter Winners and Fat Quarter Quilts. This book is also a fat quarter friendly book.
As with Monique's first two books, this book has beautiful color pictures of all the quilts and quilt blocks, wonderfully illustrated instructions, and charts to help you make all the projects in an assortment of sizes.
Diamond Traditions has patterns for 11 different quilts. I was fortunate enough to get to piece a quilt for the book, I pieced Ocean Diamonds. This is the first time I've had a quilt show up in a book, it's a fun experience for me. I pieced this quilt way back in June of last year but could not blog about it until now.
This is Lifetime Quilt Number 83 - Ocean of Diamonds
The fabric is Memories of Provence by Monique Dillard for Maywood Studios
The pattern is Ocean of Diamonds from the Diamond Traditions book by Monique Dillard
It finished at 62" X 74"
Its has approximately 972 pieces.
As part of the book tour, each blogger is going to answer the following questions, I hope you enjoy getting to know us a little better.
This is going to be a week of fun and giveaways, please visit these bloggers to see their projects and for more chances to win Monique's latest book.
Tuesday - Denise from Quilter’s Window - Quilterswindow.com/blog/
Wednesday - Lisa from Stashmaster - The-Stashmaster.blogspot.com
Giveaway now closed, thanks for stopping by.
Diamond Traditions is available in quilt shops and online. Comparing the cost of one pattern to the 11 patterns provided in this book make this book a real deal! If you enjoyed Monique's first two books I know you'll love this book also.
As part of the book tour, each blogger is going to answer the following questions, I hope you enjoy getting to know us a little better.
- When did I start quilting - I pieced my first quilt the fall of 2005
- What was my first project - Lifetime Quilt Number 1 - Click here to read all about it.
- Favorite Movie - I love movies, so this is hard for me, but I've watched "You've Got Mail" more times than I can count, so I guess I will have to go with it!
- Favorite Book - I love to read, so this is hard for me too, but I really enjoy books that make me think about them days after I finish them, and I love all types of books, biographies, mysteries, fiction, non fiction. But if I have to pick one book I'll go with "My Losing Season" by Pat Conroy.
- Favorite TV Show - I love those bridal gown shows on TLC on Friday nights. I don't care if it's "Say Yes to the Dress", "Say Yes to the Dress Atlanta", or "I found the Gown". If it's Friday night, I'm watching somebody pick out a wedding gown.
- Where I grew up - I grew up in a small town in the midwest. All of my family still lives there, I was the only one who flew the coop.
- Dog or Cat - Not even close, this family is a dog family. Although I'm allergic to cats so I've never been able to get to be around them.
- Hobby if I didn't quilt - If I didn't quilt I know I would have some sort of hobby, I'm not one to sit around and just watch TV, I would probably select golfing. Quilting is a lot like golf, both hobbies are very time consuming, require expensive equipment, and practice if you want to be good.
- Sports - participant or spectator. I love sports, my favorite sport by far is football, which requires me to be a spectator, but I also enjoy other spectator and participant sports.
- Least favorite part of quilting - Picking out the fabric! It's not very often that I finish a quilt and don't think, "I should have used different fabric" or "I want to make that again in different fabric".
- Most favorite part of quilting - The math! I love checking all the math in every pattern I make and even redo the math on most patterns I buy. It's like a game to me and relaxing.
- Biggest quilting inspiration. I would have to say my quilts became more interesting and I became a better quilter when I started participating in Sinta and Sherri's Schnibbles quilt along. Those little patterns let me be more creative with fabric, experiment with block sizes, and sometimes, change up the whole thing. The things I've learned making those Schnibbles has seeped into all my projects.
- Sweet or Salty - Sweet!
This is going to be a week of fun and giveaways, please visit these bloggers to see their projects and for more chances to win Monique's latest book.
Tuesday - Denise from Quilter’s Window - Quilterswindow.com/blog/
Wednesday - Lisa from Stashmaster - The-Stashmaster.blogspot.com
Thursday - Sherri from A Quilting Life - aquiltinglife.blogspot.com
Friday - Monique from Open Gate Quilts - opengatequilts.blogspot.com
Giveaway now closed, thanks for stopping by.
