Diamonds by the Square Reference Book

Welcome to the Square in a Square® way of constructing quilts. For over 25 years, I have been creating quilts using this system. Now it is time to teach you the power of these new diamond units. You will love them and probably be a little upset with me for holding out all these years!

The beauty and ease of these new units using the Square in a Square® technique continues to amaze us! The speed and accuracy of these normally difficult, thin triangle units are unbelievable. To think, these are supposed to be unattainable designs now made so spectacular!

Watch the movement in these quilts when using the diamond shapes as they add so much dimension and depth to your designs. These once hard patterns that fall into this speedy, fun and accurate category truly excite me. I can t wait for you to catch this excitement and experience the feeling of creating hard patterns so simply.

This diamond reference book is Volume Two of the Reference Book encyclopedia series . Volume One is the Square in a Square Reference Book with the square Options #1 #17 with Volume Two containing 23 diamond Options . These books are created to work together, although they do stand-alone also. The 23 diamond options expand the possibilities to an endless number of patterns . From these diamond units, quilts can now be made with ease, accuracy and speed . No more y seams, set-in pieces or ripping out again! The diamond center expands your ability to create circles and curves, movement, depth and dimension to simple strip piecing . Difficult quilt designs are a thing of the past when you understand this simple technique.

I recommend learning the basics of the square which are Options #1, #3 and #4 . Then, taking that knowledge and learning Options #7, #18, #19, and #20 of the diamonds. Powered with those skills, you are ready to tackle almost any design in the quilt world . This concept of simple strip piecing turns any level of seamstress into a Master Piecer!

With its easy to follow patterns, multiple block sizing and page after page of endless charts, this Volume Two Reference Book will keep you at the sewing machine.

Over the past twenty years, Jodi has remarkably touched thousands of quilters throughout the world with her unique method called Square in a Square®. Her point of view provides the quilter with the freedom to create most any quilt design with speed and accuracy.

Jodi has spoken to quilting audiences throughout the United States, Canada, Australia and Italy.

She has appeared as a guest on several quilting shows, including TNN s Aleene s Creative Living, TNN s Your Home Studio, Perfecting Patchwork on Family Net TV and a PBS series with Kaye Wood. hgtv has shown her commercial on the quilting techniques she has developed during the show Simply Quilts.

The Square in a Square® system is a process that anyone can implement in most any design. Jodi has written twenty books (ten of which have been on the best seller s list), four novels, produced four tools, two video/dvds and five teacher s books. Additionally, she has a series of pattern books and fabric lines based on a series of fiction novels that were written from the 1856 time period about the Mailly women. This series is based on the women in Jodi s family.

She also has a Certified Teacher s Program in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. Jodi has had numerous quilts appear in McCall s, The Quilter, Quick and Easy Quilt World, House of White Birch Publications, Quilter s Newsletter Top Ten New Products, Leisure Arts Scrappy Bed Quilts 2003, Round Bobbin Quilting Professional, has been a Featured Teacher in the Traditional Quilter and has had numerous cover quilts with Quilt Mania and McCalls Quilting. Jodi has been commissioned to compose quilts for many state and national organizations as well as working with the Kansas Historical Society.

Recently, Jodi has been a Pony Express story teller at the Pikes Peak Pony Express National Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri. She has been active in guilds as well as owning several crafting and sewing related businesses over the years. Jodi was raised in southwest Kansas, has two grown sons, and is married to Steve, her high school sweetheart.