wow and the quilting looks great

Gorgeous!!

OMG, words just fail me to describe that wonderful quilting you have done. What kind of machine do you have? You sure can make it sing.

I am happy loooking at all of the beautiful quilting.

wow. That quilt top ended up with the right person. How Smart you are to have known so many tricks to make it Beautiful. The quilting in this is specTacular.

awesome!

Really beautiful. Maybe someday.

Beautiful quilting.. and lovely quilt...

Awesome awesome awesome. The quilting is so pretty you could use either side.

simply stunning!

All I can say is..... MAYBE some day I will try to make this quilt...I absolutely love it. You did fabulous job.

Your quilt is gorgeous! The quilting is so elegant :D:D:D

WOWWOWWOW!!THAT IS SSSOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!

Beautiful! How long did it take you to make this? Just curious

This is so beautiful!I love this pattern and you did a wonderful job on it!!

Wow, beautiful quilting and beautiful quilt. thanks for sharing.

WOW. What a beautiful job quilting. You did an amazing job to save that quilt.

Absolutely beautiful!

Beautiful quilt and the work you did is too.
I love the scrappy look too.

You did a beautiful job! Front and back! This is my dream quilt! Someday I will complete one!!!

Beautiful Job! I relate to the challenges you faced.Part of the challenges of piecing a double wedding ring are the curves and sometimes patterns are duplicated on a duplicating machine that can distort the shapes. I wish I had my mothers pattern--the finish top lay as flat as a tabletop! She copied her pattern by putting the original under a piece of paper and taping it to the dining room window!

Thanks for the encouragement everyone! When I first start quilting a top, sometimes I think that my quilting is terrible and I'm going to have to rip it out. This was one of them - I wasn't satisfied I was going to like it until I had finished a couple of passes. I worked on this for just over a week (I have a full-time regular job). It actually went fairly fast because I only had to make reference lines for the feathers in the big blocks. Everything else was freehand and I didn't need to use any rulers.

I have a Voyager 17 machine. I purchased it in March of this year, and I feel like I've found a lost love. :-)

Problems? What problems? It is beautiful.

beautiful!! Your quilting is like, WOW!!

OK? WOW! is all I can say. You did a fantastic job. Your quilting is outstanding and the finished quilt a heirloom for sure. It's not about the magnifying glass, it's about what went into it. Love it.

Girl You did a awesome job!!

Gorgeous!!

Beautiful--I, too, had to save one of these. It had puckering too. It was made in the 1960's. I was told this pattern was called Squashed Wedding Ring as the circles are not really round.

I've wondered about the circles - I've seen some that are much rounder and some just like this one. I didn't know they had a different name. "Squashed" brings to mind some crazy word associations - like an old couple (the older you get the more squashed everything becomes) or like "I want to squash these rings". :-)

That is a beautiful quilt. Betty Lee

That is just Beautiful. Love the quilting on it.(: :thumbup:

Looks like you did a beautiful job!

Joy, I am amazed, astounded and inspired by this quilt, mostly because you have only been longarming for a mere 6 months?!?! That is a real wow to me. I don't think a longarmer with years of experience could have done a better job.

What is your secret to getting your continuous curves uniform? I seem to be having alot of trouble with those. Some swoop way in and others barely have any curve at all. Do you put a reference mark for the deepest part of the curve like a dot? Or do you simply use the width of the hopping foot? Right now I am trying to do it freehand with no marking.

It is beautiful! I don't see any problems.

Wow! I think it looks amazing! Great job!

I did mine all freehand - and believe me they are not all uniform. I got lots better by the end of the quilt - so I'd say practice has more to do with it than anything else. I tried to do a smooth arc and have it be the width of the hopping foot in the middle of each arc. I've also found that moving my body - rather than my arms seems to help make things a bit smoother, too. But mostly it's just practice. I had just finished a large one before this one that was mostly continuous curves, so between that one and this one they gave me plenty of practice.

It's beautiful!!

Wow and Wow! That sounds like an awful lot of work but your finished quilt is so absolutely beautiful. it takes the breath away.

OMG that is beautiful! Did you hand quilt it or was it machine quilted? I have one "in waiting" to be finished but need to get it basted because it's getting harder & harder for me to get down on the floor & do that. But yours is absolutely beautiful. You have a lot to be proud of

OMG that is beautiful! Did you hand quilt it or was it machine quilted? I have one "in waiting" to be finished but need to get it basted because it's getting harder & harder for me to get down on the floor & do that. But yours is absolutely beautiful. You have a lot to be proud of