Wow! Best double chain I`ve ever seen. You should be very proud. Bessie Stephenville NL

The back is indeed every bit as beautiful as the front, so you essentially look like you have two quilts there.

Absolutely beautiful!

Beautiful piecing and gorgeous quilting. Superior job. Take a bow

Absolutely beautiful

Absolutely awesome!

The quilting is beautiful and so is the quilt.

WOW that is absolutely beautiful great job!

Lovely, lovely work - Well done!

Beautiful!!!

This double wedding ring reminds me of the one I had and wore out using. The intersections were yellow and green, and the rest was all done with scraps. Loved that quilt. It is still a pattern I think I want to make sometime.

Well Done!! The quilt is just beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Now that's just beautiful! I've never seen a scrappy DWR; and yours is so nicely done; also, the quilting just suits it so perfectly!

What a beautiful quilt. The quilting is wonderful and I love the colors.

It is gorgeous!

Looks fantastic to me! What a wonderful quilter you are!

From your pics, I would never have known that you had all those problems, it looks great to me.

You did a beautiful job. Love the quilting! Iwould not have known to use double batting. And then to use a combo of poly and cotton.
How did you know to do that?
marla

Oh my , this is beautiful! What a good job you did on it. I would never have thought of using two different battings on it. Is it really heavy? Love the quilting designs. Jan

Oh my , this is beautiful! What a good job you did on it. I would never have thought of using two different battings on it. Is it really heavy? Love the quilting designs. Jan

It's a little heavy because it's so large - 118" x 94". But not overly so. The cotton was a low loft Legacy batting and the poly was low loft Microsafe from Joanns. So together it gives a nice loft -not flat like a traditional quilt, but not puffy like some were in the 80s. The cotton will shrink at a slightly larger rate than the poly, so it should help fill in the quilting and extra fullness of the blocks - almost like a mock trapunto effect on the feathers.

I read on another site - mqresource.com - in one of the forums there that some of them do a double batting for their show quilts. I had been wanting to try it, and when I got this quilt I thought it might help disguise the problems this quilt presented. The owner is gung-ho with whatever I want to do and I always give her a discount on her quilts (loyal customer, etc.). Anyway, I'll be doing the double batting again in the future. I think it really added something to the quilting.

Thanks for the kind words everyone. I really appreciate it!! You guys are the best here!!!

Your colors are so beautiful, and your quilting is just exquisite. Congratulations!

What a beautiful job you did. You rescued this heirloom!

Outstanding!

I just found your quilt, it's beautiful, did you quilt it on a regular machine. :thumbup: :thumbup: :lol: :lol:

No, I quilted it on a longarm (Voyager 17). Thanks! I quilted several on my domestic sewing machine prior to getting my frame and longarm in March.

This is absolutely beautiful work. Love, Love, Love this quilt. You did a great job!!!!!

beautiful work!!!!!!!!

Fantastic !!!

I want to ditto everything everyone else has said! You have two, two quilts in one - a pieced quilt and a whole-cloth quilt! Fantastic.

Holy cow! What an incredible job. Simply stunning.

Wow Stunning !!!

that is one of the prettyest quilts i have ever seen

That is a fabulous quilt and would be a treasure to have!!!

you did an amazing job...no flaws can be seen...its really a beautiful quilt and the quilting egually as magnificient...its one of the quilts on my "to do" list

Oh my gosh, the quilting it gorgeous. This is one of my all time favorite patterns.

your quilting leaves me breathless.I believe you have a two sided quilt! :thumbup:

Just lovely! Great quilting.

Very nice!!!

I love it. Absolutely beautiful top and quilting. Well done.