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| Red and Cream Amish Wedding Ring Top |
Not quite sure how I scored an afternoon to myself on the weekend, but I'll take it! This is my sister and brother-in-law's wedding gift. It is the only outstanding quilt present that I owe now, thankfully. As my sister has made a couple quilts herself now, she is super understanding. Yay for awesome sisters! It's coming, sis, I swear it's coming!
This quilt is the same Quiltmaker pattern as my
10 Years and Still Over the Rainbow quilt. What a difference, eh? Because the rings and stars are so colourful in this one, I never found the need to quilt in the centre black blocks beyond one echo of rainbow coloured thread.
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10 Years and Still
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The red and cream wedding ring quilt is another story. If something stays on my On hold list for a while, it's because I was/am stumped about some aspect of it. For a lot of them, it's my skill level. For others, it's that something isn't working well with it, whether it's the colours, the values, etc.
Can you see what problem I was having with this one? There's not a lot of contrast between the reds so they read as one and make the centre cream blocks very obvious, at least to me. Once I'd pieced the top (paper pieced stars and hand pieced rings) though, it was clear that I couldn't leave those spots blank.
Appliqué? Some fancy free motion quilting (FMQ)? I couldn't FMQ at all when I made this top, let alone try something fancy. Same quilting that I did with 10 Years (ie. flying geese by walking foot -- hell no!)? I kind of thought trapunto would look good, but I didn't know how to do it.
When I pulled this quilt out last week -- setting off a small avalanche of WIPs/UFOs, I might add -- and looked at it again, I have to say that I'm still thinking trapunto. Now that I've done it successfully with my
Colour My World Black challenge, I think I can probably give this a proper go now.
The next decision will be what to trapunto here...thoughts? I have a couple of ideas, but I really love hearing what you guys think so I won't prejudice your creativity by sharing mine just yet. :)
Once I decide what to trapunto, I'll take photos of how I do it and share them in a tutorial. Sound good?
Tomorrow is the Colour My World Yellow challenge linky party for those of you participating. I can't wait to see what people have done with yellow. I've finished my piece and I'm doing the happy dance again.
Happy Sunday!
