Double Wedding Ring Quilts are a big project no matter how you create it. Foundation Paper Piecing (FPP), English Paper Piecing (EPP) or pieced will require time. It took me almost 2 years to do this quilt. Some days it sat in time out.
I chose to do EPP. Elise Baek offers templates for this project. She also has You Tube videos on how to make it!
I like EPP as the process for doing this quilt because it can be a take along project. I am not chained to a sewing machine or sitting in one post. I took it everywhere! It went camping, appointments and waiting in the school pick up are for my grandson. I did chose not to make a full size quilt. The blocks are approximately 18″ x 18″. My quilt turned out to be 56″ x 56″ when finished
I used the acrylic templates for the rings offered at Elise’s website to cut the fabric. I also used the svg files to cut the the paper pieces with my circuit. What a time saver that was. I chose to glue baste the fabric to the paper pieces since most of the pieces have rounded edges.
Now for the fun part! Let’s sew these arcs together. It was easy enough when I got the hang of it. There templates for the inner arcs and the inside of the ring. You can also applique the arcs to a piece of the background fabric. I did that for the footstool. It is an orphan block. The footstool now resides in our camper. The plan was for our dog to sit on it while traveling instead of my lap. My lap is used more than the footstool!
I chose to link the arcs (rings) together rather than applique. Once all the arcs were done the quilt was almost complete. Then it was time to create the quilt sandwich. I chose the a grey background fabric and machine quilted it with a meander stitch.
When that was done, I cut 1.5″ bias strips for the binding. It was sewing to the top of the quilt and wrapped around to the backing. I had stitched it down to the back.
Don’t forget to add your quilt label! You did all this work. Take pride in what you have accomplished! It is a work of art.
Now the completed quilt will be claimed by a rousing game of rock, paper, scissors played by my youngest grandson and my daughter.. He has already told me how he will cheat……
Your DWR quilt is absolutely gorgeous and it’s been so much fun to follow along as it was growing and growing! Your background fabric highlights the colors in the rings and makes them pop beautifully! It’s such a work of art and love that it’s no wonder you’ve got multiple family members wanting to claim it…and love your grandson’s great plan on how to make it his! He knows a good thing when he sees it, he’s a smart one!
Congratulations on launching your blog, I look forward to seeing and reading about many more progress updates and projects from your creative adventures here!
Thanks for all the wonderful instruction and encouragement you give! Janet
Quite impressive, Janet. I love seeing the quilt again, and love hearing your process. It’s been so nice to see it grow (and mature) while we stitched along, and/or sat our projects in time out for “a bit”.
I love your block. Very nicely done.
Thank you Luci. It has been a pleasure seeing all of us grow in our crafts!
I love your DWR. it is stunning and your workmanship is gorgeous. I’m so glad your site is up and running. Great job.
It is absolutely gorgeous , such lovely work and iam encouraged to keep on piecing mine ! Congratulations on launching your blog !
He can cheat all he wants! I’ll wait for him to fall asleep and take it. I don’t have a bedtime, unlike him