I finished my contemporary double wedding ring quilt! I'm calling it "Ring Cycle." Here it is, hanging over the master bed.
It turned out amazingly flat, considering how it was when I sandwiched it with the batting and back. I did ditch-stitch quilting at first, then a lot of tight stippling on the background to mash that all down, then I blocked it. And when I say blocked, I mean "stretched the heck out of it!" I really worked and worked to keep mushing it this way and that and pinning, pinning, pinning, until it was flat...THEN I quilted the rings. And, astonishingly, it turned out fine. I thank god for Kathy Sandbach and how much I learned from her in her machine quilting class! (The amazing things that blocking can fix being one of them.)
Here's a detail shot to show how it's quilted:
Fabulous dahling. Simply fabulous!
ReplyDeleteFrom your friend who would NEVER do a quilt like this, it really is gorgeous. Hope you bring it to show and tell for a close-up look.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely great! I love that you went with a different color combo - icy blue with deep scarlet (or so it looks on my screen). It works so well!
ReplyDeleteIt is truly yummy and so neatly done. Like Gerrie I would never attempt a traditional pattern since I cannot make two blocks alike to save my life, but I really really like this quilt.
ReplyDeleteIt turned out super fantastic, Diane. Yay on the blocking working so well! And I love the close-up shot of the quilting.
ReplyDeleteI have this image in my mind of you jumping up and down on this and laying on it, rolling around on it and, finally (a la a Bugs Bunny cartoon) driving a steam roller over it!!
ReplyDeleteIt turned out beautiful!!
teri
That is a beautiful, amzing quilt! Love the contrast of colors and the way the rings are "floating" into each other.
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