It's a Start :)

So here is what I got done in my class last night.  It was so much fun!!!!  We actually took our homework and sewed it into tubes and then cut the tubes into strips.  (Those fun little guys in the bottom of the picture.)  Then you unpick in a designated spot to make the strips for the diamonds.  What a cool way to put a quilt together!!!!    I had only ever seen the tube method used for making continuous binding strips.  I had no idea it could be used to make diamonds like this  :)  Ya for learning new things :)

Whereas this is for Grandma's 80th (at the end of Feb) I need to get the rest of the points put together sooner rather than later :)  Each diamond got a little easier as I got more practice with the technique.  The first ones were making my head spin a bit :)   So here hoping they will get faster, not to mention more accurate.  3 down and 5 to go :)