Here is my last DWR wall hanging and/or table topper. This is my 5th one I have done and will probably wait awhile to do another one. These really only take about 2 weeks to do using "RINGS THAT BIND". I hand quilted the center around the roses, etc. Hope you all enjoy :)

Very pretty!!!

I love the pink and browns!!

Very nice!!

ooohhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhhh thats purty!

That's really pretty!

Very pretty-I love the pink and brown combination.

Very sweet and romantic!

Mom is going to love that :mrgreen: and if not send it to me :wink:

So pretty!

It's really beautiful. But what's a DWR??????

Oooo I love those roses!!! Very Pretty!!! :D:D:D

Really pretty! really pretty! and different :P :P :P

Very nice!

Very nice.

That is really pretty.


pal..... the pattern is called DWR=Double Wedding Ring

Very pretty

A DWR is Double Wedding Ring. I love using the Rings tha Bind and it comes with the ruler for the arcs and it is very easy to do and I am still a newbie and didn't want to try the traditional one yet.

Absolutely gorgeous!!!

It is a pattern book by Cheryl Phillips and Linda Pysto and it comes with "The Arc-Ease Tool" which is acrylic and just so easy to use. The books shows you how to make even the traditional DWR (with different color fabrics in the arcs) doing strip piecing, plus the outside arcs and scallops are the binding. You do both machine quilting (when sewing arcs and then the blocks together) and quilt as you go. I do my hand quilting in the center. I just love this, but need a break from it and start quilting my Dancing Flowers quilt.

I want to thank yall for your comments. You all are just wonderful people and probably the only ones that understand the process involved in quilting and can appreciate what you are looking at. Again thank you so much and GOD Bless this board.

Pretty!!!

Very pretty :) That is a very easy pattern to follow. I have made one as a wedding gift and have another half done. I put the second away for more pressing projects.

Swan Song, if the one in your avatar is the one you made it is gorgeous.... I have made just real easy ones with just 3 fabrics. I have some horse fabric I want to use for the center, but don't have fabric to go with it and I think the mofits might be too big. Plus I need a break from doing that pattern anyway.

oh Swan Song forgot to ask where in Texas are you?

I am in Arlington and yes the one in my avatar is a "Rings that Bind". It is the one I gave as a wedding present. Close ups of it are in this thread:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-17743-1.htm

The second one is just 3 fabrics and has been less frustrating. I don't know how soon I will attempt a crazy quilt. It was fun to do the embellishments but the actual squares gave me fits.

so pretty!
You have a way with fabric and colors. :thumbup:

Joanie
Enjoy??? OMG roses are my very favorite.. in any size, shape, form or color!! And yours are absolutely beautiful.. wonderful eye-popping colors!!! Your handquilting is exquisite!! Oh.. and did I say I Absolutely LOVE these little jewels?!!! Great job.. keep doing them & if you need someone that really likes roses to send them to... I"M HERE!!
Fannie

Thank you to all of you for your wonderful comments:)

Joanie, I keep looking at your picture and it looks like
your roses are appliqued and the leaves are embroidered. It's really hard to tell in the photo. The piece is really
beautiful. I'd like to know a little more about it.

Joanie, I keep looking at your picture and it looks like
your roses are appliqued and the leaves are embroidered. It's really hard to tell in the photo. The piece is really
beautiful. I'd like to know a little more about it.

The roses are in the fabric (they are just mofits). On 2 of them I quilted around the complete roses and leaves. On the other 2 I quilted the whole rose (inside and out), so on the back it looks like it was just a quilting design. I used a high loft batting, which I really didn't realize I bought, but I loved how it pillowed it out. My Mom picked out the fabric and we got it at Joann's. I do not now the name of it, sorry. I am glad you liked it.

Joan, that is so neat. Are you making them for gifts, or for yourself?

Thanks, I have made 5 of these where 2 of them were table runners and 3 were wall hangings and I kept one of them. Well, back to work I go... :)

That is so very pretty

Double Wedding Ring

Swan Song.. I went back & looked at your block (gorgeous by the way) but just wondering..how do you do that type of crazy quilt center. I've only done the one with a 5 sided shape, then sew strips in a clockwise pattern till the square is filled. thanks.

LOL That block is called "I have no clue what I'm doing". I started with a random piece of fabric and added around it to fill the square the size I needed. I was trying to make the squares different but they turned out very similar since my mind doesn't like random. I then turned them and tried to use the embellishments to make each look unique. I kind of figured there was no right or wrong just "design opportunities". It got to be fun after I got the blocks finished and started to embellish them.

ok.. so it WAS just a square that you added "strips" of fabric on to till the square was filled, right?... That's why I LOVE Crazy quilts.. they are soooo random. You don't do the same thing all the time.. you can cut pieces, sew pieces or go back & embellish the blocks that are finished.. and then... start on some more LOL. I was so pleased with the one I did a few yrs ago.. I do have to figure how to post a picture & send it for all to view.. and there is also a pretty neat story behind it.
Fannie