On Thursday, March 6th I was out at Mineola, NY at a quilt guild presenting “The Legacy Lives On – Five Generations of Quilters”. The next morning I unpacked my suitcases (not usual, I would have probably waited a few days and just left the suitcases hanging around. But when I was in Utah I liked what Emily did, she unpacked everythng right way so it was not hanging over her head.) I am really glad that I did unpack on Friday morning because I realized that I did not have my piece of the double wedding-ring quilt that my Great-grandmother had made. I was wondering if I was going to have to change my lecture to Four Generations of quilts. Anyway, I called my contact at the guild and she said she would make some calls. She called about 1 week later and said that she had finally tracked down my quilt piece. A member of the guild was collecting items for a sale the guild was having in a couple of months and while this peices was being passed around she got alittle confused and thought it was for the sale and just put it with all the other stuff that had been for the sale. Anyway, the above pieces arrived home last Friday. I was very glad to have it.
(This my remake of that quilt and below is the information on the quilt label)
The original Double Wedding Ring quilt was made by Hannah Maria Jensen Mortensen for her granddaughter Carma Mortensen Ricks as a wedding gift around 1942. Carma stored her precious quilt on the top shelf of a closet. The quilt was accidentally pushed up against a light bulb and was scorched and burned beyond repair. Years later, for a Young Women’s project, Hillary Landon (Carma’s granddaughter) cut pieces of the quilt and framed them for family members.
In 2002, Mary Anne Ricks Ciccotelli (Carma’s daughter) decided that she wanted to make a reproduction of the original quilt as a tribute to her great-grandmother and mother. To make it as authentic as possible, she collected feedsacks on eBay. Because of knee surgery in 2004 and not being able to get to her sewing machine, she opted to hand-piece the quilt top. During a visit to Idaho in August of that same year, Deanna Ricks Wade, Susan Ricks Landon (Mary Anne’s sisters) and Connie Christensen Andersen (Mary Anne’s childhood friend) helped hand-quilt around the rings of the quilt. Mary Anne took the quilt home to New York to complete the hand-quilting.
Color Wheel Magic Worhsop Preparation
On Saturday, March 15th – National Quilting Day I had the opportunity of teach my Color Wheel Magic workshop. In preparation for the workshop I played around with a couple of more colorwheel variations. I decided to try one with a printed background. What do you think?
I was in the process of redoing my handout (and in preparation for publishing the pattern) so I started to make another color wheel so I could take pictures of the different steps.
Here are 11 of the 12 quilters who attended the workshop with their color wheels. 
Here is my sample color wheel..JPG)
On March 4 I got a touch of the flu and didn’t feel like doing the things that I should so I started a new quilt (big surpirse). Anyway, I loved the rainbow quilt that Jennie just made and I wanted to make my version of a rainbow quilt. I decided to use the disappearing 9-patch block. This quilt has been well received and will probably be a workshop that I am going to offer in the future.
Here is the completed top. I guess this is another project on my UFO list (or maybe it is not a UFO until it has been around for a few months).
I like reinbow color.
Nice patchworks.
Wow! you have been busy, I’m glad you got the dwr block back!
Teri
Mom, your rainbow quilt is stunning!
Looks like you got to it before I woke up. Yay! 🙂