It's the project I had just started before Tonya posted this irresistable challenge ... and so, while I have been rushing to finish it, I've been thinking of what it means to abstract design ideas from a traditional quilt to a "liberated" one and how this quilt, based on Gwen Marston's pattern, Liberated Wedding Ring, is a great example of abstracting a traditional Wedding Ring quilt.
Now that this top is completed, I'm almost ready to focus my attention on our challenge.
11 comments:
Oh thank you! I just love this quilt.....it may be my inspiration for my challenge quilt, but I will wait for my book to come before I decide.
But this is just lovely!
The red is really inviting...have you decide how you will quilt it?
Happy sewing
Love the red!
I wish my husband would let me put a red quilt on the bed. That is amazing.
Wow, this is stunning with that red! I see you did your piecing a little differently than Gwen M. How did you do it?
And I agree, I think this is a good example of an abstraction of a traditional design. It's boiled down to the essence of the traditional Wedding Ring, and that's a good point to ponder! Thanks for sharing!
I love the red....and the cat looks good against the red too!
Kim, my plans are to quilt it in a very traditional way. That was one of the things I liked about Gwen Marston's Liberated Wedding Ring quilt. I'm thinking feather wreaths in the alternate blocks and feathers in the border and probably something a little wonky in the rings themselves.
Sharon, since I had some string-pieced "yardage"–which you can see here. I started with that and rotary cut rectangles, then used a triangle template taped to my ruler to cut the shapes at each end (as a result, I now have a baggie-full of those left-over triangles cut from string "fabric). As it turned out, I had exactly enough string fabric to cut pieces for 14 blocks. I ended up making more because I decided I needed to have a bigger quilt. Since I now knew that I'd be using a red background, my new string "yardage" had far fewer red fabrics in it and I ended up with fewer muddled blocks that blend with the background.
Gwen Marston's pattern uses a template and has directions for string piecing pieces stack-n-slash style,using diagonal slashes, so there's more strings that go from thick to thin in her rings.
Wonderful quilt. love that red, the scrappiness AND the kitty. this IS a great example of how to interpret a classic pattern - thanks for posting it.
I love that expression "string piece yardarge!" The red works so wonderful herding all the other fabrics...
Thanks for the nice compliments, everyone.
The "yardage" I had made some time ago seemed perfect for this quilt when I measured it (26" long, 49" wide) and did the math. It turned out that the 26"length was exactly what I needed to make one block. The 49" width was also perfectly divisible by the 3.5" strips I needed. It fated to be used in this quilt. When I had to make more string fabric, since I knew what I was going to do with it, I made small pieces, each big enough for 2 or 3 blocks.
Great quilt top, love the pattern and how the blocks are "floating" on the pretty red background!
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