My pattern pieces are cut out. I’ve cut strips of fabric from the shirts and started stitching them together to make fabric. I’ll then cut the pattern pieces from the patchwork fabric.

There are so many things I’m changing along the way!

I have made a 3D model of an emerald cut diamond on Blender. This will form the pattern for my up-cycled shirt diamond.

It’s working! My improvised piecing combined with pattern piecing is working really well.

Self-adhesive foam core board - BOOM! Look how good this looks!

I sewed some sequin film to the painting rags today - it works!

I am making patchwork fabric to use to cut out the diamond facets.

Today I tried cutting random shapes from the painting rags and stitching them together.

The self-imposed rules and restrictions are creeping back! I realise now this happens with every artwork I make.

After reading lots of quilting blogs my mind continues to expand with ideas. These two are going to help me get this artwork done.

This is a ‘diamond’ mini quilt that I made in 2016 called ‘Need it like I need water’.

I’ve tried a different way of joining the pieces together - I’m not using a backing fabric to stitch them onto.

This facet of my diamond ‘Need’ was going so well until I made a big mistake. But it might just turn out better now, who knows?

Wonky cutting, wonky sewing, steam iron…but this diamond facet still looks fab. I can work with this, no worries!

I’ve moved furniture and stuff, stuff, stuff around again and now I have a functioning sewing corner in the studio!

Facet #4 was easier to cut out thanks to my friend’s sewing hacks.

A friend gave me some sewing hacks to try and they’re awesome! I’ll get these facets stitched even faster now!

I tried a different sewing technique with the shapes within the diamond facet.