Sunday, June 25, 2017
Follow along as I make Free Spirit Fabric's Double Wedding Ring Quilt.
Time to add some additional quilting designs to the double wedding ring quilt. I did an Amish/traditional rose in the middle of my medallions. It requires some paper template pieces and an invisible ink marking pen to get the design right. For the actual quilting, I use a quilting hoop, leather thimble, and gold-end quilting needles with some 100% cotton hand-quilting thread.
I absolutely adore the quilting in Carrie Strine's Double Wedding Ring Quilt, and it might be worth considering quilting two-connected leaves into the melons as a lovely add-on.
- Cut hand quilting templates out of card stock.
- Center rose template in medallion, using medallion + crease as a guide
- Trace rose with disappearing marker or dressmaker's pencil, indicating a starting divot.
- Quilter's knot the thread.
You want about a full wingspan of thread to do the entirety of one motif! I try to avoid the number of thread breaks in a motif.
- Pull needle from back to top of quilt, tugging on thread so the knot is secure in the batting.
- Use a Rocking Stitch to hand-quilt the traced rose pattern.
- Trace the petal template just as before, and hand quilt just as before.
- Hand quilt the traced leaf template.
- Repeat Steps 8 & 9 for all leaves.
- Use a quilter's knot to secure the end of the thread.
- Repeat quilting motif for all remaining medallions.
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