I recently decided that a double wedding ring quilt would be nice to have around. Done in old-fashioned looking fabrics for a real vintage feel. I did a wall=hanging several years ago that had 9 rings, and it went okay. Well, it doesn't lay particularly flat, but it didn't cause me too much angst.
So I started one, thinking to make it 16 rings, in a 4 x 4 arrangement, a nice square lap size. Fortunately i still have the book with the wedding ring pattern templates in it. I really like this book, "Quilts Galore!", by Diana McClune and Laura Nownes. I decided to cut down the size of the rings, since I wanted that old-fashioned look, as you know. So, I just copied the templates at 80% of the full size. So, instead of a ring being 17" across, I suppose it will be smaller. Not quite sure of the actual size.
There was quite a bit of cutting pieces from templates. Started sewing arcs together, then football shapes. After a while, I decided to lay out some of the pieces:
Aaahhh, I thought. This looks a little boring. So I thought I'd add in some other colors to jazz it up a bit. Right-o.
So, because I'd already cut out all the pieces, I now had to make the quilt bigger to add in new colors. I think I finally settled on a 5 x 6 arrangement. So I cut out more template pieced fabrics, and sewed more arcs and more football shapes and laid them out on the floor to see how it's going.
I think it looks pretty much like it did before I jazzed it up. But now it's bigger.
Well, whatever. I am nearly at the hard part, where I have to sew in that squarish center piece and then join them all together. So I will now take a little break from this project.
michelle
