🌙 Moon Diamond Sewalong – Week 2: Fussy Cutting Fun! ✨
Welcome to Week 2 of the Moon Diamond Sewalong! This week, we’re getting hands-on with our fabrics — it’s time to cut your fabrics and learn all about the magic of fussy cutting!
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✂️ What is Fussy Cutting?
If you haven’t heard the term before, fussy cutting is when you pick a very specific part of your fabric to feature in your quilt block — perfect for highlighting gorgeous prints and little details you love. 🥰 For her quilt, Anne used fussy cutting to really make her feature diamonds pop!
Anne’s feature diamonds are made with prints from Tula Pink’s Everglow collection — and honestly, if there was ever a fabric collection made for fussy cutting, it’s Tula’s! Bright, bold, and full of amazing little creatures and shapes just begging to be spotlighted. ✨
In this week’s video, Anne shows you how to fussy cut your feature diamonds from your fabric, and how to make a cardboard cutting template to make life a little easier. After all, there are quite a few diamonds to cut!
🗓 Sewalong Schedule
Here’s what we’ll be covering each week:
Week 1 (June 2): Fabric Selection
Week 2 (June 9): Printing Templates + Fussy Cutting Tips – that’s this week!
Week 3 (June 16): Foundation Paper Piecing 101 + Make 7 Blocks
Week 4 (June 23): Make 14 Blocks
Week 5 (June 30): Make 14 More Blocks
Week 6 (July 7): You guessed it – 14 More Blocks!
Week 7 (July 14): Remove Papers + Sew Quilt Top
Week 8 (July 21): Quilting Suggestions + Make Binding
💬 Don’t forget!
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Pop into the Make Modern Quilt Community on Facebook and Said With Love Sewalong & Quilting Group on Facebook and show us your fussy cutting in action.
- Share your fabric pull photos on Instagram using #moondiamondSAL and don’t forget to tag us so we can admire your work. 📸 @said_with_love and @makemodernmagazine
That’s it for week 2! Have fun slicing and dicing – and remember, every perfectly fussy cut diamond is a little work of art. See you next week when we jump into foundation paper piecing and start sewing our first blocks!
Happy cutting!
— Love Team Make Modern + Said With Love 💖
