One (of the many) times I was fabric shopping, I came across the aqua background fabric I used in this quilt. It was on sale so I bought a lot. I then got the bright idea of making a double wedding ring quilt using this fabric so that led to fabric shopping for a lot of fabrics for the rings that went with the aqua. It’s always so much easier and fun shopping for fabric than actually making the quilt!
A double wedding ring is not the easiest quilt to make and there’s a real trick to getting the rings to match where they join. I was once at a quilt lecture where the audience was asked how many of us had made a double wedding ring quilt and a lot of us raised our hands. Then we were asked how many of us had made two double wedding ring quilts and no one raised their hand.
That sounds like I didn’t enjoy making this quilt but I did. I loved the variety of fabrics and enjoyed the challenge of putting the quilt top together. It’s machine pieced and hand quilted. I quilted a heart feather motif in the center of the rings and then quilted a smaller version of the four hearts in the areas where the rings overlap. It’s quilted in the ditch around the rings.
Island Wedding won a Third Place ribbon and Best Hand Quilting at the 2000 Mooresville Centerpiece Quilters Show. Here I am with Island Wedding at the show.
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