Single Wedding Ring

Wedding Ring Block: 1988

The red seems a bit too saturated perhaps....

This was another Fort Queenscliff Quilters workshop.  We had decided to try machine stitching a block as complicated as the double wedding ring and had settled on Mary Ellen Hopkins’ “It’s Okay” method.  I finished this project and used it as a Christmas Tree skirt for our “motel” tree, which still resides with us.  

My “motel” tree was a panel (perhaps from Lincraft) which was sewn and stuffed with wadding.  Add a few bells, beads and whistles and voila! You have a tree to stuff into the car when you’re on the road at Christmas time.

Just for the Record:
Quilt Finished Size: 46cm diameter
Block Size: 18”
Cut in: 1988
Pieced & Basted: Machine 1988
Quilted: Hand 1988
Quilt Type: Group Sample
Quilt Finished: 1988
Exhibited: 
Collection: Home#0 14
Pattern Name: Double Wedding Ring
Pattern Source: Mary Ellen Hopkins
Fabrics Purchased: 1986/87
Fabric Design: Christmas prints & colours
Fabric Style: Cotton
Materials Type: Cotton
Wadding Type: Thin Poly Batt
Backing: Cotton

Lessons Learned:
I still love traditional double wedding ring quilts and one day I plan to do this. Oh, yes I do! Until then, Mary Ellen’s very easy machine sewn pattern made doing this group experiment easy-peasy. Even better, I had just discovered the delights of rotary cutters.