Rhonda Dort

Another project that’s easy to work on, a vintage well loved Double Wedding Ring quilt. What do I mean by “well loved”? I mean worn out, torn, tattered, stained and full of damaged and/or missing fabric…everywhere.

So many of you wonder why I choose projects like this…in a nutshell I love the opportunity to save a quilt that was well made and well used. Maybe someday one of my quilt creations will be saved by someone with a bent towards vintage, what an honor that would be.

Sadly I forgot to take detailed pictures of the quilt before I began working with it. The pictures above show the quilt on a Queen size bed.

So let me tell you a bit about what I’m doing before I show lots of closeup pictures. If I had to guess I would estimate at least 75% of the original fabrics were either missing, torn, faded and/or frayed. I set out to use mostly Reproduction fabrics. In many instances I turned the fabric to the wrong side allowing the new fabrics a chance to blend in by appearing to be faded.

I also knew I would be using mostly vintage laces and trims to give the vintage quilt little pops of interest and surprise.

And finally, I planned use 10 to 15 of the wonderful built-it decorative stitches on my Bernina 550. Lots and lots of machine decorative stitching on this quilt!

Here’s the same picture from above marked with black dashes showing the 11 “fixes”:

More fixes as well as decorative machine stitching:

I have yet to decide how I will address the damage to the pink and green blocks.

What’s up with the big yellow patch? There is a large hole that will be repaired in a few days.

Wondering what the back of the quilt looks like with the machine decorative stitching? I love the look the stitching creates.

Using my Accuquilt and dies from Crafters Edge I cut the small hearts from a piece of a damaged vintage quilt, let me show you a few pictures:

Stay tuned, lots more pictures to come!

Blessings and happy quilting!