Victoria Findlay Wolfeauthor, painter, photographer, and award-winning quilterlearned to sew and quilt at age4. Victoria organizes a large quilting charity project and is active in several guilds. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and their daughter. bumblebeansinc.com
Double Wedding Ring Quilts-Traditions Made Modern: Full-Circle Sketches from Life
Paperback
(New Edition)
- ISBN-13: 9781617450266
- Publisher: C&T Publishing / Stash Books
- Publication date: 02/01/2015
- Edition description: New Edition
- Pages: 128
- Product dimensions: 7.90(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.60(d)
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Get ready for new adventures in conventional piecing with celebrated quilter Victoria Findlay Wolfe. Create stunning Double Wedding Ring quilts with breathtaking innovations on the classic pattern. With full-size patterns for 10 quilts, the book will teach you the Double Wedding Ring basics. After you’ve mastered curved foundation piecing, try your hand at Victoria’s unique fabric slashing and “Made-Fabric” methodsit’s easier than you think! You’ll feel liberated as you improvise on her designs, with full instruction for some quilts and others that invite your creative discovery. Read the stories that inspired each of Victoria’s designs, and then take inspiration from the artist at work in her studio, with photography of her creative process and 3 bonus quilts to jump start your own art.
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Although boasting a fine-arts degree, Wolfe (15 Minutes of Play) writes accessibly about her double wedding ring quilts as if she’s jotting bread-and-butter letters. Her words are warm and nostalgic as she remembers arriving in New York City with $200 to her name after practically running from the Minnesota farm of her girlhood. But she found that she never quite left that farm behind, for her quilting grandmother becomes her inspiration. “Everything started with this quilt,” she says of “Double Edged Love,” a best-of-show winner at the first national conference of the Modern Quilt Guild. Embedded within her breezy reminiscences are solid suggestions for 10 projects: besides “Don’t sweat the small stuff,” Wolfe offers fabric requirements and cutting instructions for the melons and arcs, as she names parts of the wedding ring pattern, and also additional creative possibilities, laid out like yardage; hints for development of craft; and a list of “ideas carried over” from quilt to quilt. Wolfe is boldly mining her heritage. (Jan.)
This is creative dynamite, blowing up preconceived ideas of what a pattern “should” look like. You need this book in your library, friend!
"Double-Edged Love," Wolfe's modern take on the classic double wedding ring quilt won Best in Show at the inaugural QuiltCon modern quilting show, and her second book explores her process for making quilts using elements of this well-known design. "Double-Edged Love" is the first pattern in the book, and quilters who wondered how Wolfe took the double wedding ring and turned it into something fresh need wonder no more—it's a combination of her trademark "made fabric," creative fabric choices, and thoughtful use of solids to have the rings stand out. Each pattern is introduced with a short essay in which Wolfe describes her creative process and inspiration, from fabric choices to decisions about how to quilt the finished quilt top. Wolfe's two primary inspirations are her grandmother's quilts, which made use of scrap fabric in a bright palette and urban living (Wolfe makes her home in New York City). These motivations lead to some unexpected choices, including a quilt top made from double-knit polyester, a fabric that most modern quilters would eschew. VERDICT The double wedding ring is a design that many quilters, both traditional and modern, aspire to, and Wolfe's exploration of the modern side of this classic will draw quilters in. However, this book is more about enlightenment and process than the actual practice of assembling a double wedding ring quilt—the "basics" section is relegated to a skimpy appendix that glosses over the information needed to successfully duplicate Wolfe's designs.