As life often got in the way, I hand pieced this quilt in stops and starts.\u00a0 I cut the templates in sandpaper and each piece of fabric was individually scissor cut.\u00a0 It was definitely a work of love…. much appreciation to him for caring for me through my devastating illness and taking near total care of our newborn son.\u00a0 This quilt was my way of saying “thank you”.<\/span><\/p>\n I took the pattern and hand sewing project to my grandmother’s house.\u00a0 She loved the pattern and immediately copied it.\u00a0 She saw I was making it scrappy and offered to let me dig in her scrap bag for more variety.\u00a0\u00a0 I also showed the pattern to my mother, who loved and copied it too.\u00a0 She also let me dig in her scrap bag.<\/span><\/p>\n That was the beginning of our scrap bag swaps.\u00a0 Anytime my grandmother, mother and I would get together, we brought along our scrap bags.\u00a0 Each of us were garment sewers so new scraps were always introduced.\u00a0 We loved talking quilts as we snatched bits of fabric from each other.\u00a0 It was such fun! Within a very short time, Mammie hand pieced and hand quilted 3 DWR quilts and loved to tease me about being slow.\u00a0 Mother had almost finished her top when she passed.\u00a0 Mammie finished it for her.\u00a0 It took me 15 years to piece and another 12 before Bob made the quilt frame.\u00a0 Sadly, Mammie passed before mine was complete.\u00a0 I often feel her standing at my shoulder as I quilt so I am certain she has seen it.<\/span><\/p>\n As promised, Bob FINALLY built the quilt frame of my dreams.\u00a0 When it was complete, I immediately loaded it with this quilt and designed the original quilting pattern.\u00a0 It’s daisies and darts which represents Bob’s and my long life together.\u00a0 We are daisy poor and both of us have sharp tempers.\u00a0 The center of the daisy is marked by a double circle made using our wedding rings as the template.\u00a0 The quilt is backed with wide white fabric. The quilt is entirely hand stitched and hand quilted.\u00a0 It has a knife-edge finish in scallops and points.<\/span><\/p>\n Double Wedding Ring 2006<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n Quilting detail<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Double Wedding Ring quilt begun in 1979 and was made for my husband, Bob.\u00a0 When he first saw the pattern, he started dropping hints.\u00a0 At that time, I was hand quilting on a rickety, cheap frame so I told him I would make the top but he would have to make a terrific (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1020,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1081\/revisions\/2222"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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