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Patchwork Quilting – A History Summary

Patchwork Quilting goes back many years. Examples of quilting have been found in tombs of Pharohs dating back to 3400BC. Joseph’s coat of many colors was probably patchwork. Even armour was made by quilting heavy fabrics together. Quilted bed covers were recorded in household inventories from the 17th century. Patchwork quilting has even evolved into an art form known as art quilts. The Amish have developed the quilting traditions of other immigrants into America, into their own style.

Emigrants from Europe took their traditions of making quilts from scraps with them to America. Ideas and designs and even fabrics were exchanged across the Atlantic. The Log Cabin Quilt Design that was originally known in Ireland as the Folded Quilt Design, was a good way of using small scraps of fabric to create a very practical piece of art. It is doubtful if women quilters viewed their creations as art, it is much more likely they were simply seen as a quilt to cover a bed and provide warmth, albeit still a beautiful item. Crazy quilts are made from randomly stitching together odd pieces of cloth. In colonial times all cloth had to be shipped from Europe at great expense so nothing could be wasted.

A patchwork quilt was never regarded as being finished until it had been quilted. Quilting combined the three layers of the quilt – the backing, the wadding and the pieced top together, so the woollen or cotton wadding would be held in place. Quilting was a time consuming yet essential task as it provided a hard wearing warm durable quilt that had cost very little as it was made of the scraps from other projects.

Quilting is generally regarded as a female past-time since traditionally men did not learn to sew, while sewing was an essential skill for a young woman. Quilting was also a social pastime. Women would gather together to piece the top together and while they worked they would exchange gossip and tales. Sometimes after a quilting party the men would join the women for supper and often romances would begin.

Lives are displayed in traditional patchwork quilts. Part of the dress of a dead child or part of a cherished Father’s shirt could be pieced in to allow the maker to hold her memories. Quilts have been made over years, lifetimes or even generations. Telling the tales of women’s lives though embroidery, color and embellishment.

One group of special mention is the Amish, a religious group who migrated to America in the 1800s’. Quilting was not a skill they bought to America, but rather a skill they learnt from ex-English neighbours in their new land. In Amish societies, a simple life is a core belief and continues to be today avoiding modern mechanisation. While they do use a treadle-operated sewing machine to piece their quilts together the quilting is always done by hand.

The Amish do not use patterned fabrics in their quilts, the piecing patterns they use readily distinguish Amish quilts from other varieties of patchworking. The patterned fabrics are considered to worldly for use in a conservative Amish home. Some Amish quilts do not even use pieced tops; the only pattern is the intricate quilting designs. For an Amish woman an elaborately quilted design is not extra work but a creative outlet.

Traditionally Amish quilts were made from scraps left from clothes or recycled fabrics. This is another Amish value to waste as little as possible. Characteristically Amish quilts will have borders (almost always at least one and usually two) added because they increase the size and frame the pieced design. Borders are cut conservatively on the grain so as not to waste fabric. The inner border is cut from strips of cloth with a square in the corner to join it. Mitre corners or bias cut borders are rarely used as this wastes fabric. Often the quilts are bordered simply by cutting the backing larger, allowing it to be folded over.

Amish quilts are very striking despite their simplicity. This is usually due to the colors used. Although it is commonly believed that there are color restrictions in Amish quilts, this does not appear to be true. The only restriction is what is available to the quilter and the quilter’s own color sense. Typically an Amish quilt will feature two or three dominant colors with an accent color, e.g. Slate blue, black and deep mauve. White is not often used as it is hard to keep clean.

For the wider quilting enthusiast population, quilting has evolved into more of an art form. While traditional patchwork relies on pattern and color to create an image. Art quilts (or water color quilts) are more like painting with fabric than traditional patchwork designs.

Art quilts range in size but generally they are more often seen hanging on a wall rather than on a bed. There is no form of embellishment that is forbidden in Art Quilting, if you can imagine it you can use it. Because of these rather vague boundaries this is the perfect art form, for any creative fabric artist.

There are many groups for modern quilters to join and sell their works. The internet provides an excellent medium for groups to collaborate with each other to create a quilt together. Thanks to T.V. shows, Quilting is reaching a wider audience and is no longer viewed solely as a women’s pastime. Quilts and quilting have never been more popular.

Erin Mayers
www.readymadequilts.com

About the Author

Erin Mayers is the fashion designer of Costumes Direct Limited. She has a great interest in making quilts. The web site http://www.readymadequilts.com is a marketing arm of Costumes Direct Ltd

Double Wedding Ring Quilt Book Paperback

Now you have 3 options to choose from for my Double Wedding Ring Quilt Book Paperback is available now on Amazon.com, along with the Kindle version and of course the original PDF version here from this site.

This pattern is so forgiving and easy to make.  You can make a full sized quilt in half the time that it takes to make a Double Wedding Ring quilt by the traditional curved and pieced method.

Over the years, I have sold many of my PDF versions of this E-Book.  If you have worked with my method before, I would love to hear from you.  I would also like to put a picture of you and your quilt on this blog to show others just how easy this quilt can be to make.

Please leave a comment below, share with your friends or email me directly ( DoubleWeddingRingQuilts@gmail.com ) with your testimonials and experience while working with this technique.

Double Wedding Ring Quilt Book Paperback on Amazon.com

Double Wedding Ring Quilt Book on Kindle

UPDATE…2/12/2012, 6:48 p.m. EST

I am happy to report that the problem of the pictures not showing up in the Double Wedding Ring Quilt Book on Kindle has now been corrected.  To purchase your copy, Click here>>>  Double Wedding Ring Quilt Book on Kindle

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I have just been informed that the  Double Wedding Ring Quilt Book on Kindle, published through Amazon is not showing the instructional pictures as they are supposed to.  I have “unpublished” the Kindle version for now until I have corrected the problem.

I do apologize to you if you have purchased the Kindle version and found no pictures showing.  Please contact me if you have purchased the Kindle version and your copy did not show any pictures.

I appreciate the support and encouragement from all of you throughout the years while working on getting my book out there and noticed.

Double Wedding Ring Quilt Book on Kindle

Easy Double Wedding Ring Quilts Pattern Available on Kindle

Since the Kindle has been released I’ve been completely hooked on it. I enjoy reading books again without having to fight with a physical book; pages flopping, trying to hold a book open, etc.  Kindle solves all of those problems.  I decided that if I love my Kindle so much that maybe quilters would be interested to see my Easy Double Wedding Ring Quilts Pattern Available on Kindle.

So, for the last few days I have been busy updating and reformatting the Easy Double Wedding Ring Quilts E-Book so I can release it on Kindle.  There will also be a physical book available soon from Amazon.com.

As this is a Kindle version, the paper templates are shown in the E-Reader but not able to be printed out but if you would like to get a paper version of the templates, email me and I can send a copy to you; Please Send Me a Paper Copy of the Double Wedding Ring Quilts template. (It is required that a PDF copy or Kindle version of my book be purchased in order to receive a paper copy of the template).

The benefits of having the Easy Double Wedding Ring Quilts Pattern Available on Kindle is that you can take it with you to the fabric store and all of the items that you need are right at your fingertips.  So easy to flip to that page, purchase your supplies and out the door you go to begin your new project.

There are many, many different variations of the Double Wedding Ring quilt.  There is an unlimited variations that you can choose from in your quilt, from being a planned 2 or 3 color quilt or a scrap quilt with thousands of different fabrics included.

If you don’t have a Kindle yet, there is a free version that you can download to your computer to read Kindle books on the computer, iPhone, Mac, Blackberry, iPad and Windows Phone 7. Get Your Free Kindle Application Here

As always, if you have any questions about working with the Easy Double Wedding Ring Quilts Pattern, do not hesitate to contact me; Question about Easy Double Wedding Ring Quilts Pattern Available on Kindle

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Double Wedding Ring Quilts Made By Other Quilters

In trying recreate this blog, I am only able to re-post the pictures of the quilters and the quilts made and shared by 2 other quilters, Christine Austin and Sharon Jones (next post).

The interview I had with Christine is also gone.  I remember Christine telling me that she made this quilt from pieces of her grandmother’s clothing, so it is a very special Double Wedding Ring quilt for the whole family.

ChristineAustin-DWR Quilt

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Christine’s quilt is made a little differently, in that she chose to make the Double Wedding Ring the center of her quilt.  A very different look but that is what quilting is all about – making it your OWN and the way YOU choose to.

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It is a sad thing when someone destroys the work of others just for their own enjoyment. As I mentioned, this blog was hacked a while back and I thought I had backed up my files completely but now I am finding that I didn’t, so as a lesson learned, if you have a blog or thinking about starting one, make sure you have an up-to-date back-up file that also backs up your photos and depending upon how often you post, back it up regularly. I didn’t

Monna Ellithorpe

WELCOME…

Have you always wanted to make Double Wedding Ring quilts and just didn’t know where to start or how to start? Maybe you have started one and gave up and it sits as a UFO (unfinished object) in a pile somewhere?

• Do you like to hand piece and think there is “There is no way I can take this with me?” You can with the instructions in this book. You can take it with you wherever you go; waiting on your children while in dance class or at a softball game; at the doctor’s office or any where you have some extra time.

• This is also perfect for a fast machine piecing project.

• It is your quilt, make it by hand or by machine or a combination of using both methods.

• I provide the templates and the measurements needed to make the quilt. It is up to you how large or small you want to make your quilt.

How much money have you spent in the past on different patterns for Double Wedding Ring quilts to only put them aside because you got frustrated or it is too tedious or time consuming with your busy schedule to ever see yourself finishing the quilt? This book will solve that problem for you.

In this book I will show you with detailed instructions and pictures showing each step of how to make this beautiful quilt. Do you hate curved piecing and pinning? No more of that with this wedding quilt pattern. You will have a beautiful quilt to pass along to generations in your family and only you will know how easy it was to make.

With these easy quilt pattern instructions, you will be able to make and finish your Double Wedding Ring quilt in half the time it would normally take. You will have the traditional look without all of the frustration.

The instructions in this book are the results of my efforts through many trials and errors and finally success in what worked for me to finally get that Double Wedding Ring quilt finished. The Double Wedding Ring quilt instructions and pictures in this book will work for you too.

A mere $ 7.00 via PayPal or Payza (formerly AlertPay) and you could be working on your own Double Wedding Ring Quilt tonight.

I will show you how to make Double Wedding Ring quilts, block by block and produce the beautiful quilt you see in the picture above.

Once you click on the “Buy Now” PayPal or Payza (formerly AlertPay) button, you will be taken to the site to complete your transaction and then redirected to a DOWNLOAD page.

This is an electronic book/E-Book downloaded to your computer in PDF format. You are allowed to print the E-Book but nothing will be sent to you via regular mail.

There is a 15-day money back guarantee. If for any reason you are not satisfied, I will refund your money, no questions asked.  Contact Me:  MonnaEllithorpe