Keeping your diamonds straight is a common problem for most diamond painters especially when working on square diamonds. Some may wonder if there's a better way or if there's a technique they can follow. If you have these questions and not sure how to address them, well you're in luck as I'm here to help you out!
My first tip to share with you is by using the checkerboard pattern. This means that you place your square beads in every other box. You put one bead in the first box, skip a box, and place another one in the third box, and then the fifth box and so on. After you're done with this row, you go to the next row but you'll skip the first box. You will start placing the beads on the second box then the fourth box, sixth box and so on.
Once you've completed the section you're working on, your canvas should look like the photo below. As you can see it looks like a checkerboard that's why this pattern was named this method.
Now that you have completed the checkerboard pattern, the next step is to fill in the gaps and complete the missing beads. By doing this method, it will make your diamonds straighter and also prevents it from having the gaps in between.
There's nothing more satisfying than hearing that click from your square beads when filling them in. This sound somehow gives me a feeling of a job well done, you great satisfaction and makes me happy while working on my kit.
Here's another photo of Cindy's work when she already filled up all the gaps of the checkerboard pattern. As you can see, her diamonds look really straight and aligned.
One tip she shared with us was that she used tweezers when working on the checkerboard pattern and a diamond painting pen when filling them in. The tweezers really helped her place the diamonds perfectly on the canvas.
One more thing, this pattern is actually recommended if you're working on a large area with the same color. But as you can see based on Cindy's work, you can also use this even when working on different colors.
