Today’s quilt top cupboard offering is a Double Wedding Ring quilt. It’s the ”sister quilt” to the Joseph’s Coat quilt I posted last week. It was aquired at the same garage sale, and was also made by Henrietta King.
The quilt is hand pieced and hand quilted with cotton batting. The quilt dates to 1930′s-40′s and is pieced from cotton scraps and a good quality muslin.
The pieces may have been the scraps from making clothing, but they may have been purchased as scraps from Sears or Montgomery Ward’s by mail order? Both companies sold nice quality cotton scraps for just pennies a pound. I can imagine how excited the ladies were to have the parcel they had ordered arrive!
The quilt is in good condition, having been “packed away for years”. It doesn’t appear to have been used very much before being packed away?
The quilt has a scalloped edge, which is common to the Double Wedding Ring pattern.
The quilting design is very much like a Celtic Knot in the large space and has a cross-hatching over the rest of the quilt.
This pattern was very popular at the time it was made, and the pattern remains popular to this day. Most quilt collectors have at least one Double Wedding Ring quilt in their collections.
I’m usually drawn to the more unusual versions/colors of the pattern myself.
I’ve included the last pic for those of you who like to see a bit more of the vintage fabrics. : )
Please note: Since I changed blog themes the comment icon is now located above the post rather than after, like it used to be. I don’t know why…it makes it kind of confusing!
Tags: Double Wedding Ring quilt, hand pieced, hand quilted, vintage fabrics
And there is ‘that green’ in the 4-patches! I was lucky enough to find a bit of yardage of ‘that green’ so I could finish a top (GFG) that my grandmother started. Love your cupboard offerings. Thanks.
Another beauty!
I love the assortment of the scrap bag fabrics all unified by the greeen and yellow setting squares…
Thanks for sharing your treasures
Tim
Another one on my list to make. The very soft colors make it look very antique and modern all at the same time.
Sister Quilt! you are great…. had a good look at the fabrics and kept trying to think shirts or shirtwaists and thinking… sure glad I didn’t have to wear clothes back then…. much more fun as a quilt…. and the quilt is lovely….. thanks for sharing.
A very pretty quilt!! My dad remembers my grandma getting scraps like that. At just pennies a pound… I wish!!
Ann, this is one my favorite quilts you’ve acquired, lucky you! Hard to imagine anyone owning this and not realizing the value of it, particularly made by a loved one. Thanks for the close-up, it’s wonderful to see the vintage pieces, and her piecing looks flawless.
Another beautiful quilt! How nice that you know who the maker is.
Db wedding ring quilts are so classic. It is a bonus you know the maker’s name. It is a lovely quilt.
How lucky for you – two beautiful quilts!
This is one quilt that I have always loved and hope to make some day. This is a beautiful example of one :0)
Crispy
Hi Ann!
what a love double wedding ring. I purchased a top years ago and hand quilted with the spider web – I gave it to friends as a wedding gift….sigh.
How nice that this one is in such great condition and clean
This DWR is gorgeous and it is so nice for you to own this and the sister quilt.
The other DWR’s that you showed on your latest post are lovely too. I have yet to complete one DWR and it is on my ‘to do’ list and soon I hope to be able to show my version that has been started.
Hi, I was looking on the Internet at examples of 20s, 30′s & 40′s fabrics, trying to date a quilt that I have, when I came across your website. What treasures you have, and are so generous in sharing! I will be bookmarking your blog, and I am sure browsing your quilts will become a favorite activity for Sunday mornings.