rubies!

Don't you love Rubies??! I do! What a nice gift they would make for Valentine's day!
Well, these are made from red scraps. Inspiration came from Jean Wells art quilt book, and the Rainbow Scrap challenge color of the month, red.

I'll just show some close ups so you can see the fabrics are different. I pulled thin strips out of the bin... and for some reason wanted to keep them kind of even. I did the log cabin setting courthouse stairs.

I started with any size rectangle... and tried to keep the darker shades to the shorter sides for continuity.

All the fabrics looked different before being sewn, then blended together after.

Then I got the idea to try log cabin blocks starting with a diamond, and a hexi instead of a rectangle.
"Brilliant cut" and "marquise cut" gemstones

I began to think about other colors and how the whole quilt might look together, so I played a bit with settings...

The blocks blend too much and side by side... how about black strips between?

not this regular, maybe if I set them like the first configuration with black... like gems laying on velvet in a jewelry story

Now that these are done, I'm working on my nature abstract of cattails in snow. I'll show that later... it's so much fun to design and sew.

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