Diamond Chain Quilts by Barbara H Cline

Diamond Chain Quilts by Barbara H Cline

Best-selling author Barbara Cline shows how to create complex looks by combining diamonds with easy shapes like triangles and trapezoids. Her new techniques bring the drama of diamonds to traditional designs showcased in several quilt sizes.

Jan 14

We loved Barbara Cline's Simply Triangles book and her latest offering is very much in the same veinDiamond Chain Quilts is a collection of complex pieced Star, Daisy and Pinwheel designs, connected by diamond chain units which flow through the layouts. All ten projects are beautiful, but you do need a high degree of accuracy and experience to get the best from the designs. The projects are ordered according to difficulty, but even the simplest is actually quite difficult. Barbara often uses triangle units in her quilts, lots of fairly complex units within a smallish block and quite a lot of Y seams, so these are ideal projects for experienced or advanced quilters looking for a challenge and wanting to make a truly impressive, dramatic quilt.

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September 2015

Barbara H. Cline has been teaching, creating patterns and making quilts for over 26 years. Her whole family shares a passion and a reverence for the tradition of quilt making through generations. Best-selling author, Barbara shows how to create complex looks by combining diamonds with easy shapes like triangles and trapezoids. Her new techniques bring the drama of diamonds to traditional designs showcased in several quilt sizes. She has been teaching, creating patterns and making quilts for more than 30 years. Her family has shared a passion and reverence for the tradition of quiltmaking through the generations.

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Barbara H. Cline started creating quilts in her teens. Since then, she has had more than 30 years of experience teaching quiltmaking classes at a local sewing shop and creating beautiful quilts and patterns. Barbara worked at The Clothes Line fabric shop (now called Patchwork Plus) from fifth grade until she married and had children. She became a stay-at-home mother who pieced quilt tops to sell when she had time. When her youngest child entered kindergarten, she started working parttime at The Clothes Line again.

Barbara currently teaches classes at Patchwork Plus and loves to design and piece wallhangings and quilts from her home in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. Her quilts have been shown and have won ribbons in various quilt shows and contests.

Barbara comes from a close-knit Mennonite family of quilters; her grandmother Vera Heatwole taught her daughters, granddaughters, great-granddaughters, great-greatgranddaughters, and daughters-in-law to quilt. Every year the women gather for a sewing retreat, where they quilt, sew, and follow other creative pursuits. The family members and their quilts were featured in the Virginia Quilt Museum’s exhibition Five Generations of Mennonite Quilts.

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ISBN 13	9781607057536
ISBN 10	1607057530
Title	Diamond Chain Quilts
Author	Barbara H Cline
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	C & T Publishing
Year published	2013-08-01
Number of pages	96
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