Diamond Crosshatch Quilting

What is diamond crosshatch quilting you ask?

That is a good question.

With all of the many different possibilities that we have just with straight line quilting, it is no wonder that someone tried the combination of a diagonal line with a vertical (up and down) line.

And that is how we get the diamond crosshatch quilting.

Straight line quilting can be done on your sewing machine with the feed dogs engaged (up) or you can use a walking foot. The teeth of the walking foot work with the feed dogs of the machine to move the quilt top and bottom through the needle at an even pace. Sometimes without the walking foot, the upper layers of the quilt sandwich will shift and cause unwanted pleats and puckers. The walking foot prevents the layers from shifting. Use a long piece of masking tape or the painters blue tape across the block or quilt as a guide for your stitching. I prefer the blue painters tape because it doesn’t leave any residue on the quilt. Both come in many different widths.

To single straight line quilt in a diagonal design, start with the blue painters tape. Begin at one corner of the quilt and align the blue painters tape with the corner in a diagonal direction ending at the opposite corner. Stitch along both sides of the tape.

When you complete one row, realign the tape with the line you have just finished stitching. Then quilt the next line.

After completing the diagonal quilting, do the same thing for the vertical straight quilting lines.

When you use the blue painters tape, your quilted straight lines with always be perfectly spaced. You don’t even need to mark your quilt.

In the sample picture, I used 1½” blue painters tape. You can experiment and see what with you like the best.

Go to Basic Quilting Instructions from Diamond Crosshatch Quilting