Double Wedding Ring Quilt // Vintage Quilt Sunday
This quilt, like many of the era, are hand stitched, both the quilting and the block assembly. I have so much admiration for the patience required to hand stitch a double wedding ring quilt!
I particularly like her use of the yellow and purple solid running throughout the quilt.
Quilt historians seem to agree that the Double Wedding Ring pattern first appeared in the 1920s, and became much more popular in the 1930s, with kits and instructions available to makers. Many from that era are made with beautiful feedsack fabrics, similar to this one.According to Why Quilts Matter (and I have heard this folklore elsewhere), the the Double Wedding Quilt was often made as a wedding gift--the interlocking rings perhaps were meant to echo eternity, similar to a Celtic Knot or Roman etchings patterns. The folklore goes "that a newly wed couple will be protected from bad dreams and bad luck, and their marriage will be a blessed one if they sleep under a Double Wedding Ring quilt received as a wedding gift." (A Most Romantic Quilt, Why Quilts Matter). There are some beautiful and unique quilts in the essay, so make sure to click over.If you like this quilt (which would be pretty much everyone, I would think) you might like these too:From the International Quilt Study Center & Museum: An Ombre/Solids Double Wedding Ring made in the 1930s/40s.Also from the IQSCM, a Double Wedding Ring with a red background that has a very different feelMore inspiration/resources in this Craftsy post about Wedding Ring QuiltsVintage Quilt Sunday Posts
Vintage Quilt Pinterest BoardI am looking for quilts that are beautiful, quilts that have great stories, quilts that are funky or fun, quilts that are unique, quilts that were made by your great great grandmother--basically, great vintage quilts. I will be posting on Sundays, and once a month I plan to post a block tutorial based on one of the vintage quilts featured here.