Double Wedding Ring Short-cuts
#1
Double Wedding Ring Short-cuts
I know I probably shouldn't be planning a new quilt when I'm still chipping away on UFOs, but I found some plastic templates and instructions for Double Wedding Ring quilt at a garage sale. The instructions offer the "shortcut " of strip piecing the arches. Has anyone tried this?
#3
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: British Columbia
Posts: 2,299
The template set and instructions I have suggest the shortcut of sewing one long seam to join several rounds in one go. kind of like sewing a sine curve. Is that what you mean? I tried but was not coordinated enough to manage so many joints and did better just joining rings one at a time. I would love suggestions to make the DWR. I've only done a sampler before tackling a full quilt and the point where the large center tucks into where the two arches meet wants to pucker, disappear, or seem not fully sewn.
It did occur to me when wrestling with those curves that I learned to sew making clothing and have inset multiple sleeves which is curve sewing but the DWR seems harder somehow.
It did occur to me when wrestling with those curves that I learned to sew making clothing and have inset multiple sleeves which is curve sewing but the DWR seems harder somehow.
#5
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
Posts: 15,978
I took a class for Rings That Bind. I didn't remember having too much trouble with it. It's a great way to make a pillow top. I remember some of the people in the class making a template smaller than what came with the book to make the blocks smaller. I thought those looked very good and seemed to be less fussy.