What are all these fabrics that I’ve had squirreled away for? A Double Wedding Ring table runner!

I knew there was going to be an Inklingo Double Wedding Ring collection. It was released on Sunday night. It’s incredible. This is going to be like making a Double Wedding Ring with training wheels on! The planning sheets that come with the collection are some of the most useful tools one could have when planning a Double Wedding Ring. It makes it absolutely foolproof when it comes to calculating how many of each shape one needs and the yardage for that particular shape.

I have now printed enough to do the first full ring of my DWR table runner using the fabrics in this picture.

I’m going to use the floral for the centre and my arcs will have 4 pieces along with 2 end pieces. The fabrics for everything but the melons and the centres are hand dyes that were chosen to go with that print. This will be a fairly good-sized table runner.

I have other plans for other types of DWR small quilts. One of the variations that comes with this shape collection has the centre in quarters. I’m thinking of a black and white with accents of red or yellow for that. There are so many possibilities!

The grandmother’s flower garden quilt that I unearthed late last week will get finished! I tried stitching a .75″ hexagon printed with Inklingo to an edge and it works perfectly. All I had to do was undo the basting so that I had the seam allowance to work with. Much faster and much easier than basting and whip stitching more and this way the quilt will get finished. My initial choice of a green is a bit too vivid I think, so I’m going to look at something a bit more muted.

It has been a rather tough few days. My hands are worse than they’ve ever been before and, as I can’t take anti-inflammatories, it’s hard to get under control. It got so bad that I could barely lift a small glass of water without pain. I guess it’s this wild weather, with the incredible barometric swings as well as temperature swings. They’re saying we may even get some snow today. Mostly rain for us, but there is a chance of snow. I hope they’re wrong!

Lester at his post by the window. I think he’s only interested in a DWR quilt if it might be a quilt for him to lounge on!