Double Wedding Ring Quilts with Victoria Findlay Wolfe

Double Wedding Ring Quilts/Victoria Findlay Wolfe/Sewing With Nancy

Double Wedding Ring Quilts with Victoria Findlay Wolfe

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Double Wedding Ring Quilts/Victoria Findlay Wolfe/Sewing With NancyVictoria Findlay Wolfe, an improvisational quilter, and Sewing With Nancy guest, shares her modern, reinvented Double Wedding Ring designs. You might think of the Double Wedding Ring quilt pattern with the signature interlocking rings as a very traditional quilt design. Get ready to change your perspective!

Made Fabric

One of Victoria’s signature design elements included in her quilts is made fabric. Somewhere in her Double Wedding Ring quilts you’ll find randomly pieced fabrics that are cut into quilt shapes. Watch Victoria and Nancy demonstrate this improvisational technique online.

Double Wedding Ring Quilts, is this week’s Sewing With Nancy streaming video feature, watch online with guest, Victoria Findlay Wolfe.   

Iris by Night

Victoria’s quilt, Iris by Night, features made fabric in the concave squares. The quilt is a tribute to Victoria’s grandparents, Leo and Elda whose garden bloomed with yellow irises each spring. Memories and photos of that flower garden served as the inspiration and color palette for this charming quilt.

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A Summer’s Day

Did you ever piece a quilt top that wasn’t perfect and then store it away in a closet? That’s what happened with the first version of Victoria’s quilt, A Summer’s Day. There’s no hint of a Double Wedding Ring quilt, just yet!

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Later, she was inspired to cut it up, add to it, and give it new life. When you watch online, you’ll see how she turned a mistake into a thing of beauty!

Double Wedding Ring Quilts by Victoria Findlay Wolfe as seen on Sewing WIth NancyDouble-Edge Love

Risk taking is great for your creativity! That’s what Victoria’s quilt Double-Edge Love is all about. She took the risk of cutting apart an already pieced quilt top that wasn’t going anywhere. What visually appeared were some sections that reminded her of her roots in the farmland of Minnesota, and the other parts resemble streets of New York City—now her home. Here’s a quilt that visually connects Victoria’s past with her present.

Double Wedding Ring Quilts/Victoria Findlay Wolfe/Sewing With NancyVictoria’s Book is Visually Inspiring

If you need a boost of quilting adrenaline, a walk through Double Wedding Ring Quilts will provide the remedy. With full-size patterns for 10 quilts, the book will teach you the Double Wedding Ring basics plus Victoria’s unique fabric slashing and made fabric methods to create with personality.

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Watch Double Wedding Ring Quilts (Part One and Part Two) on Sewing With Nancy online.

For a chance to win Double Wedding Ring Quilts by Victoria Findlay Wolfe, leave a comment sharing your favorite historic/traditional quilt pattern.

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59 Comments

  • Anne Z
    March 22, 2018

    I love the LeMoyne Star.

  • Margaret Schenk
    March 22, 2018

    I love the colorful, octagonally shaped piecing of Grandmother’s Garden. It reminds me of my grandmother, who taught me to quilt.

  • Gail W.
    March 22, 2018

    I am over 70 yrs old and remember my mother making a double wedding ring quilt for my older sister when she married. My sister’s grand daughter is now the proud owner of the quilt. Still beautiful.

  • Kathy Rosenheck
    March 22, 2018

    My mother was an incredible seamstress who taught me to on sew buttons when I was two. However, she was never a quilter but truly loved the art of it. Now, sixty years later I am a devoted quilter but I have always chosen patterns without curves. My new favorite design is Cleopatra’s Fan. I have made my “test block” and now can’t wait to start the quilt.

  • Susan Spiers
    March 22, 2018

    I have seen a few hexagon vintage quilts on line, all of them hand quilted, just beautiful! Thank you, Susan

  • Helen
    March 22, 2018

    Storm at Sea is my favorite traditional quilt pattern. But I’ve also started exploring Drunkard’s Path and all the variations you can do with that pattern.

  • Linda V
    March 22, 2018

    My favourite is the snail’s trail

  • Twyla Johnson
    March 22, 2018

    Both of my Grandmother’s quilted and pieced by hand. The Double Wedding Ring and the Dresden quilts are two favorites. My mother constructed a hand stitched Cathedral Window Quilt that is just beautiful. Thank You for your inspiration!

  • Julie Kill
    March 22, 2018

    Tumbling Blocks is my ultimate favorite! I love the 3D look and how by changing fabrics in just a couple of places, you get a whole different quilt!

  • Ellen Rittenhouse
    March 22, 2018

    It is hard to choose one favorite pattern. However whatever the pattern I prefer a scrappy look probably because my mother and grandmother made quilts from the scraps of garment sewing projects. In those days there was never enough scraps to do a complete quilt from a few select materials.

  • lynn
    March 22, 2018

    Oh there are too many. Love what Ms Wolfe has done, taking a traditional block and going modern. Enjoy seeing churn dashes treated the same way as she has done here with the wedding ring.

  • MoeWest
    March 22, 2018

    I have always liked the Lemoyne Star and also the Dresden Plate.

  • Susan Putman
    March 22, 2018

    I love the versatility of a Log Cabin quilt and all of its settings and permutations. I currently am working on two – piecing a curved log cabin in jewel tone batiks and also cutting 1″ Reproduction fabrics into strips – can’t wait to see all my little pieced squares!

  • Carol
    March 22, 2018

    I love these new ideas using the double wedding ring. They are all terrific.

  • Diane L
    March 22, 2018

    My absolute favorite quilt block/pattern is the LOG CABIN. It’s so beautiful and fun to make!

  • Max
    March 22, 2018

    The current quilt I am working on is my favorite quilt.
    The One Block Wonder with the cube is always a surprise block.

  • Marie Kozma
    March 22, 2018

    When I look through patterns, I’m always drawn to “stars” and “flowers”. A favorite that combines both is the Double Peony. With the blocks set on point and the flowers made from scraps, it would make a beautiful garden quilt, right?

  • Mary Frye
    March 22, 2018

    There are many but the one that stands out is the orange and white Lone Star made by my mother. It was on my bed during my teenage years. Sadly, I don’t know what happened to it, but I can still picture it in my mind! Memories!

  • Ida Mae Rypkema
    March 22, 2018

    My mother usually made scrappy crazy quilts so when I see them it brings lots of wonderful memories. My favorite is Double Irish Chainand Wedding Quilts. I love your work, you inspire me to step out of the box.

  • Donna W
    March 22, 2018

    I am always drawn to star quilts. It doesn’t matter what type of star. I just love them all.

  • Callie
    March 22, 2018

    My favorite block is the Peony(similar to Carolina Lily). I have no idea why really! They look so wonderfully historic though.

    Victoria is so inspiring to me- art is a passion I share as well. Art as quilts.

    I loved seeing her on Nancy’s show.. that was my first introduction to her and now she is my favorite quilter by far. She is a great teacher as well- “just play!”

  • Treva Campbell
    March 22, 2018

    My favorite historic quilt pattern is Log Cabin. I made one 21 years ago.

  • Kathy Semone
    March 22, 2018

    My favorite traditional block is the Churn Dash also known as Hole in the Barn Door. I don’t know why I love it so much, but I have made several quilts with this block. I also love Log Cabin and would like to make a Log Cabin with Kaffe Fassett fabrics.

  • EllenB
    March 22, 2018

    Any quilt made with 9 patches is so homey and comforting, though a Grandmothers Garden may be in my future!

  • Patricia Edwards
    March 22, 2018

    I love the double wedding ring and bear paw blocks.

  • Florence
    March 22, 2018

    My favorite historic/traditional quilt pattern is a star, most any star pattern. One day, I would like to make a Lone Star quilt.

  • Debra
    March 22, 2018

    I love scrappy crazy quilts. I have one made in cottons by my grandmother and one in wool and other old coating material by my mother. Both quilts were made for functionality and warmed our beds for year. They are showing their age from years of use, but are still beautiful in my eyes.

  • LaVerne Mullane
    March 22, 2018

    I have always wanted to make a wedding ring quilt but have never had the confidence to try. This book would probably help me greatly and since I have two weddings to go to I may even get one done. I love the disappearing nine patches or disappearing churn dashes. Or anything that is disappearing, I find them so intriguing and I love the things that can be done with HSTs.

  • Darrel Alexander
    March 22, 2018

    My wife has kept a double wedding ring quilt top that her mother pieced decades ago, probably in the 1930s. It has been languishing in a cedar chest for many years but is in relatively good shape with a except for a few stains. I am 81years old and new to quilting but part of my career involved making costumes for the theater. I am planning to get the top ready to be quilted. I have pieced three quilt tops this winter have more in my head. I have no deadlines so I am in no hurry to finish my projects. I like the dwr but I don’t know that I will ever try to make my own.

  • Jennifer Reinke
    March 22, 2018

    I love the Log Cabin block the most, but would love to do a lone star quilt or even a Double Wedding Ring. Ms. Wolfe, what a great way to spring board off of traditional quilt block patterns!

  • Kathy Copeland
    March 22, 2018

    I love the log Cabin quilts and have yet to make one for myself

  • CJ Hines
    March 22, 2018

    I love the log cabin pattern–it can be traditional, modern or both. It’s very versatile and depending on the layout, it never looks the same twice. And to a beginner, it’s a great place to start!

  • Kathryn Smotryski
    March 22, 2018

    Not too long ago I and my cousin made wedding ring quilts for cousins who where getting married. What a step up this design would be. Love to have the directions for this more “complex” design.

  • Jacquelyn
    March 22, 2018

    It’s always been the Log Cabin because there is so many different designs you can do with the pattern; and I haven’t even attempted one yet. The Dresden and the Wedding Ring are fighting for second place.

  • Karen
    March 22, 2018

    I like snowball blocks.

  • Bonnye
    March 22, 2018

    I love log cabin quilts. My first quilt was a log cabin and since then I have made 3 more.

  • Diana Pals
    March 22, 2018

    The crazy quilt is my favorite traditional quilt. It becomes not only a quilt for warmth, but also a personal history for the owner. When my daughter graduated from high school, I made a crazy quilt for her college dorm room using all the fabric leftovers from 17 years of sewing her clothing, costumes, ballet skirts and even maternity dresses I had made for myself before she was born. When I asked her if she wanted to take photo albums with her to college, she replied: “Oh mom, I have all my memories right here in this beautiful quilt!”

  • Laurie Devers
    March 22, 2018

    My favorite traditional quilt pattern is the double wedding ring quilt. As I am new to quilting, I was warned not to start with this quilt. I plan on making one just as soon as my quilting skills are up to the task.

  • Martha
    March 22, 2018

    My favorites are Lone Stars, Wedding Ring and hand-sewn Cathedral Windows.

  • jo Wray
    March 22, 2018

    The new book on new sewing book would be nice to update my techniques. This will be a nice book to have for children.

  • Margie C
    March 22, 2018

    I have made two traditional Double Wedding Ring quilts for family members’ weddings. I LOVE these variations on a terrific traditional pattern. The first example with the cream and light green rings maintains the traditional, but looks so modern by eliminating the arc sections and replacing the centers with created fabrics. Victoria and Nancy are truly artists. I love it.

  • Crystal Conrad-Kauffman
    March 22, 2018

    I love biblical blocks like carpenter’s star and jacob’s ladder!

  • Ann
    March 22, 2018

    I love all the traditional designs, log cabin, double wedding ring, and lone star.

  • BevM
    March 22, 2018

    I really cherish my grandmother’s Double Wedding Ring and Lone Star quilts.

  • Therese Parker
    March 22, 2018

    I love the Double Wedding Ring the best. But, to me, the beauty of quilt making is the ability to ingeniously turn scraps of fabric that are too small to use otherwise into a useful family heirloom. We are currently teaching our Girl Scout Troop basic piece quilting. They are making baby quilts for children in the Foster Care system. This book would be a great resource for them.

  • Jacqueline Brawley
    March 22, 2018

    My mother was an incredible seamstress, with six daughters, she taught me to sew at the age of five. I made a dress, back then they were called shifts. She loved piecing guilts when she was a little girl. The first one I remember her finishing was a star pattern. I took that quilt with me to college in 1972. The star was the first traditional favorite for me. Thanks for letting me share.

  • Dory H
    March 22, 2018

    I have a treasured double wedding ring quilt that my grandma won at a church drawing in 1925. She loved that quilt and so do I!

  • judy
    March 23, 2018

    There are so many that hold special meaning for me. When growing up we had quilts that were meant to be used for warmth (grew up on farm in North Dakota). My favorite block is one of pinwheels. Was my Mom’s too.

  • April Martin
    March 23, 2018

    I have a traditional wedding ring quilt my grandmother made for my mother when she married my dad. So this double wedding ring is my favorite quilt. Love the modern twist Victoria has taken on the quilt. My mother loved and had iris too! Her main color was purple!

  • April Martin
    March 23, 2018

    I have a traditional wedding ring quilt my grandmother made for my mother when she married my dad. So this double wedding ring is my favorite quilt. Love the modern twist Victoria has taken on the quilt. My mother loved and had iris too! Her main color was purple!

  • April Martin
    March 23, 2018

    Double wedding ring quilt. My grandmother made on for my mother when she married my dad.

  • April Martin
    March 23, 2018

    Double wedding ring quilt!

  • Maria R
    March 23, 2018

    Wow. Amazing quilts. I love log cabin as it was one of my first blocks

  • Patricia Wester
    March 23, 2018

    I love pineapple designs, especially skewed ones.

  • Julie
    March 24, 2018

    My favorite would be log cabin. It seems I am always going back to it.

  • Bonnie
    March 24, 2018

    What an amazing collection of unique double wedding ring quilts! It is fascinating to see how Victoria has created very modern quilt designs from a traditional pattern. My favorite traditional quilt pattern is the log cabin because of its versatility. Thanks for the great giveaway.

  • Svitlana Kuzmych
    March 25, 2018

    I like different stars. I am quilting only 2 years.

  • Kim Grady
    March 27, 2018

    I love doing 9 Patch and English Paper Piecing, along with other of course. But nothing satisfies my soul or sewing machine (ha Hhhaahaha) like a good ole scrappy quilt. Taking any size of bits of material and creating something warm, comfy and filled with love, there’s nothing better. Maybe it is time to branch out and try something new as seen in Ms. Wolfe’s Double Wedding Ring Quilts!

  • Chococraft
    April 4, 2018

    Wonderful post. The information is very useful. Thank you for sharing this here.

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