Collectible Double Wedding Ring
Can you please help Anne Copeland locate a missing quilt? In September 2001 she brought
a collection of quilts to the quilt sale and show at Piecemakers Country Store in Costa Mesa, California.
The day of the show she had a very bad fall and she wasn't feeling well, so when she packed up her quilts
she did not inventory them carefully. Recently she was looking amoung her quilts and discovered that her
best and most expensive Double Wedding Ring quilt was missing.
This circa 1930 quilt is 92" by 124". The rings are 15-3/4" by 17" with 2"
deep pieces. Each ring consists of extremely small pieces about 1/2" wide of many different prints in one color so
the entire quilt consists of pastel print rings of interlocking colors. The diamond joiners are in the same color as the
ring. It is very unusual and very striking. It is machine pieced and hand quilted. The backing is green cotton
(typical 1930's green) and a cotton sheet was used for batting. It has a 1/4" applied green
bias binding (not commercially purchased) on a scalloped edge. The quilting is nice but not heavy.
If have any information about a quilt that matches this description, please contact Anne through the Lost Quilt Come Home Page.
Posted April 12, 2002.
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