Having taken a notion to use a diamond ring design on a double wedding ring quilt, I decided to look about at the different ways people do that pattern to see how they differ from what I know.
So far I have used three different search strings and gotten a ton of different double wedding ring patterns using diamonds, links to jewelry, and not one single quilting design.
How do you go about searching for quilting designs? The quilting itself, not the top.
NightMist
Having taken a notion to use a diamond ring design on a double wedding ring quilt, I decided to look about at the different ways people do that pattern to see how they differ from what I know.
So far I have used three different search strings and gotten a ton of different double wedding ring patterns using diamonds, links to jewelry, and not one single quilting design.
How do you go about searching for quilting designs? The quilting itself, not the top.
NightMist
Having taken a notion to use a diamond ring design on a double wedding ring quilt, I decided to look about at the different ways people do that pattern to see how they differ from what I know.
So far I have used three different search strings and gotten a ton of different double wedding ring patterns using diamonds, links to jewelry, and not one single quilting design.
How do you go about searching for quilting designs? The quilting itself, not the top.
NightMist
It takes some doing to find quilting motifs since you usually end up with quilt block designs when you search. Here are a couple sites I have found:
Try putting "quilt motifs" (without the quotes) into Google.
Good luck!
Iris
Howdy!
I yahoo-ed DWR quilt images; old & new quilts shown, quilted.
Stencils:
Good luck!
R/Sandy
I particularly like the fern pattern. I may swap that in for the feathers I had in mind for the middles and the surround. My notion was to do diamond rings over the melons, and a feather X in the middles, and then feather around the whole.
What I am trying to find out, which I now realize I was less than clear about, is how do you all do a search for a quilting pattern without having to plow through five pages of tops and non-related stuff.
NightMist
Boy, did I read THAT original question wrong... DUH. Sorry about that Chief... You can eliminate the unwanted hits by putting a "-" (minus sign) directly in front of any words you want eliminated from the search; i.e. if you don't want green pickles in your search for pickles, put - green in the search window. If you want quilting patterns specifically, put them in quotes, i.e. "quilting patterns".
In the google window, click on "advanced search" to the right of the window, then click on "Advanced Search Tips" above and read through them. That's the best I can help at this time.
Doc
I just got the newsletter from the Stencil Company in my mailbox. You can find their page here:
Ah Doc...if only! Google responds to boolean logic about as well as cats respond to drill sergants. They have made it more "intuitive" and "user friendly". The plus sign and quotes still work, but kind of wierdly. It ignores the minus sign beautifully. Worse yet, sometimes it decides that since you have used a minus sign that you aren't getting the results you want and displays a whole new set that are further from what you want than ever.
I did scoot over to Alta Vista to do a full on boolean search. I got a LOT more correct hits over there. I may have to switch back permenantly.
NightMist
I still haven't found what I am looking for. The closest I have come is a whole top design in "The Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns", that is similar in design and identical in name.
Draw this: draw the outline of a "melon" as for a DWR quilt. Find the centerpoint of the longest length. Using that centerpoint, construct an octagon where the centerpoint of the angled sides is on the circumfrence of the melon. Erase melon lines inside the octagon. Using what is now the centerpoint of the large octagon draw a smaller octagon, where the sides are one half as long as those of the large octagon. Join the outside corners of the small octagon to the inside corners of the large octagon. Starting at an outside corner of the large octagon _that is inside the melon_, draw a line following the curve of the melon maintaining the same distance from the outside line until you are opposite the point of the melon. Repeat for all four corners.
Now that is the basic diamond ring quilting pattern as I know it. I figure somebody must call it something else, for I did not invent it. Being as I have it from my paternal gramma, I figure it has been around awhile and has probably been embellished on.
I just wanted to see what other folk have done with it, and if there are any nifty things I might want to adopt of modify. But so far I haven't seen a thing like it anywhere.
NightMist Ash update >I just got the newsletter from the Stencil Company in my
ack!!! i lost ya part way thru that explantion but am curious to see it when it is found. do post a link to it when you find it, as i'm sure you will find it if it exists. if i had been able to follow your explanation i'd probly be able to find it but sorry, i'm lost on that one. unless you can draw a pix of what you mean and post that for us to look at... i'm now using the green search engine that Jennifer in Ottawa posted for us. j.
"NightMist" wrote ... I still haven't found what I am looking for. The closest I have come is a whole top design in "The Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns", that is similar in design and identical in name.
Draw this: draw the outline of a "melon" as for a DWR quilt. Find the centerpoint of the longest length. Using that centerpoint, construct an octagon where the centerpoint of the angled sides is on the circumfrence of the melon. Erase melon lines inside the octagon. Using what is now the centerpoint of the large octagon draw a smaller octagon, where the sides are one half as long as those of the large octagon. Join the outside corners of the small octagon to the inside corners of the large octagon. Starting at an outside corner of the large octagon _that is inside the melon_, draw a line following the curve of the melon maintaining the same distance from the outside line until you are opposite the point of the melon. Repeat for all four corners.
Now that is the basic diamond ring quilting pattern as I know it. I figure somebody must call it something else, for I did not invent it. Being as I have it from my paternal gramma, I figure it has been around awhile and has probably been embellished on.
I just wanted to see what other folk have done with it, and if there are any nifty things I might want to adopt of modify. But so far I haven't seen a thing like it anywhere.
NightMist Ash update >I just got the newsletter from the Stencil Company in my
They're still around? I used to use AV exclusively before my imposed hiatus. Shortly before that, IIRC, they had been absorbed by google and everyone was switching over so I followed the lemmings... I could be wrong but I thought AV disappeared after that. Since you're using them, I'm obviously in error, but thanks for posting this - could be the resumption of a... well... useful acquaintance.
If there are problems with the minus sign on google, I hadn't noticed, but more slips by me nowadays.
Doc
i hope someone draws it up for us to see. i've reread NMs instructions a few times and i still get lost part way thru. i'd love to see this one. j.
"Roberta" wrote ... Cool! Sounds like draw>I still haven't found what I am looking for.
Clearly I overfussed the explanation. Try this, draw an octagon with a little octagon inside it, connect the angles where they match up. Draw a melon over it that passes through the middles of the angled lines, now draw another melon inside the first one that passes over the tops and bottoms of the vertical lines. Erase the melon lines inside the octagon.
Roberta is dead on as to what it should look like.
NightMist
Exactly, a faceted gem with the melon lines being the ring part. It is such an obvious design, and as I said so old (the gramma in question was born in 1896), that I figured somebody else must be familiar with it, and somebody must have embellished on it by now.
NightMist w>Cool! Sounds like drawing the facets on a cut gemstone -or did I get
uhhhh??? i really need a pix. not to worry if you dont have one tho. sorry, my brain just aint what it used to be and might never be again. j.
"NightMist" wrote ... Clearly I overfussed the explanation. Try this, draw an octagon with a little octagon inside it, connect the angles where they match up. Draw a melon over it that passes through the middles of the angled lines, now draw another melon inside the first one that passes over the tops and bottoms of the vertical lines. Erase the melon lines inside the octagon.
Roberta is dead on as to what it should look like.
NightMist
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