My brother and his girlfriend, Becky, asked for a quilt this year for Christmas and lucky for me I started my quilting plenty early. I had just two thoughts about the pattern that I chose, this
Kona Color Wheel Pattern from Red Pepper Quilts. The first thought was that it reminded me of double wedding ring quilts and the second was that it's difficult to keep white quilts clean.
The first thought was fortuitous because my brother and his girlfriend eloped! That's right, they're married. Just like adults! I can't even believe it. This is my favorite picture from their wedding day.
Good thing I was well into making them a wedding ring quilt when I found out! These are the fabrics I chose way back in the summer.
I cut the strips and made up a little assembly line
so that I could make lots and lots of these little arcs.
When I started assembling them Eddy got interested and wanted to see
how I put curves together.
Four arcs make a circle.
I created a layout with a few circles missing because I am artistic and also because I underestimated how much solid fabric I would need.
That inspired me to make a border with a few pieces missing.
Once I had the front pieced, I wanted to do something really special for the back because I took
this really great free(!) Craftsy course from Elizabeth Hartman about Creative Quilt Backs.
Then it was basting day.
Basting day is terrible, but it leads to quilting day which is the opposite of terrible.
That second thought from above? The part about how difficult it is to keep white quilts clean? Well, that thought was just as fortuitous as the thought about wedding rings because right about this point of the project I realized that the quilt somehow had a stain on it.
I have no idea how this happened. Except that I share a workshop with these three dirtbags.
I tried and tried to get the stain out and it looks a little better than in the photo above, but I stopped short of sending it through the wash because new quilts are just so delightfully flat I like to think of people adding their own wrinkles as they send it through the wash again and again. I like to think that all I did was take the pressure off of Evan and Becky. Now they won't feel like they have to keep the quilt *so* spotlessly clean. You're welcome.
Finally there's binding day.
And here's the finished quilt!
But there were still days of burying threads to go. Days and days and days.
At least I had a little help.
Congratulations to Evan and Becky from all of us Westbrooks including the cat!
