This quilt turned out to be super easy. I started with a brown square of cotton, sewed a strip of the plaid to the top and bottom, then cut out the diamonds from different fabrics. I went ahead and added the layer of batting, and a layer of baby blue flannel to the back.
I wanted it to be puffy looking, so i didn't use any iron-on adhesive or finishing to the diamonds, just pinned them on and sewed twice around them, all the way through the 3 layers, so that the applique actually served as the "quilting." I did the same for the strips of ribbon that go across the diamonds. Then, I finished it with pre-made double-fold bias tape binding.
I hope to get into more challenging sewing methods, quilting methods, and binding methods, but for one of my first quilts, not too bad, huh?
