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Here is what has been occupying my time, while I plan the Double Wedding ring quilt for my nieces wedding gift. I had these few boards of cherry laying around in the basement shop and they called to me about their need to be moulded into a useful purpose; other than a stack of boards in the basement. I decided to make what is known as a Hunt Table, for our front hall entryway. Now the purpose of this table is traditionally a place to lay out the water foul or field game that are brought back from the local squires hunt. Being a committed vegetarian of long standing, I have thought it more appropriate to call it a Vegetable Table. Just imagine those bunches of carrots, and leeks and other greens laid out in all their splendor, instead of those lovely little flying and hopping creatures, that would normally be found on such a table. I think it paints a much nicer picture, but if you must think of the game placed there, then that is fine also, just not in my house. The bowl positioned on top is one that was made by my brother-in-law, whose daughter is the future blushing bride to be, who this whole thing ties together somehow. The bowl is what is called a stacked turning, and is accomplished by gluing various colored woods in various crisscross positions, and then turning the bowl to produce this rather stunning bowl. He is a wonderful craftsman at the lathe. I am torn as to the colors for the double wedding ring quilt. I have a Template set for the quilt but there are about 6 different color themes that could work and I don't know which one to do. I am leaning toward a random scrappy color palate, and white background, rather than trying to guess what are their "favorite" colors, and having to make a quilt that I don't personally like the colors. Is that a bit selfish on my part? I hope not as I have gagged while making a couple of things for people who wanted something that I thought was horrible, but committed to making them something of their choice. I swore that I wouldn't do that again. Anyway. Here is the table, and I am going up to the fabric store this week and search out some of the scrappy colors that I hope will work. Enjoy,

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John
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John, The table, as all of your projects, is fabulous. Is that trim on the legs or square coasters. I'm guessing trim given the nature of your typical projects. Delightful detail. The bowl, also, is magnificent. I've always been attracted to that type of work but would have a hard time actually 'using' such a work of art.

As to the color issue for the wedding gift...I feel your pain as to painful color choices. I've had a few of those but have somehow managed to work out schemes that fit the recipient's color preferences. Is it possible to get some hints and clues as to the happy couple's preferences overall that wouldn't be too offensive to you? I know there are a lot of 'scrappy' folks here...just not one myself. I just finished a pale green/light grey/dark grey quilt for a friend. Not my personal favorites, but I made the pattern work for me with the colors and the recipient, as well as others, thought it was stunning. The palette and pattern, mind you - not necessairly my efforts, although all were very gracious with their praise.

Good luck shopping.

Kim in NJ

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AuntK

Those pieces at the bottom are wooden Pads not attached. I use them for things with legs that require a bit more stability due to the narrow separation of leg spacing on this table. It gives the table a bit more stability, with the enhanced "footprint". I could have possibility designed an integrated pad onto the leg but I was working with a finite size of lumber and almost ran out as it was. I wanted to use only the lumber I had already on hand. I am still not locked into the scrappy color scheme, but I refuse to do things that are based on color choices that tend to make me ill. You have to work too long and hard on a large sized quilt to endure that sort of indignity. My feeling is that whatever I choose, they will like it, because it has so much effort put into it. And even if it spends most of it's life in a trunk, I will have gotten satisfaction from doing it. I guess that is the persnickety side of my nature, rearing it's ugly head. John

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John

The table is lovely (of course) and really sets off that wonderful bowl. But I'm not jealous (much) -if it were in my house, it would soon become DH's collection spot for pocket change, bits of paper and all the other stuff that seems to breed in his pockets. Better to admire it in your house!

You are absolutely right to go ahead and make the quilt YOU like for your niece. You have to look at it for many hours, after all, and a gift should reflect the giver, not so much the recipient. >Here is what has been occupying my time, while I plan the Double

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Roberta

Usually, John, I'm not to be taken seriously but just this once, please do. Please don't use plain solid white for your background. We can hope that your creation will be a thing of beauty (and joy forever) for decades. Plain white just doesn't do well. Life happens. Roofs leak, coffee gets spilled and the cat steps in anything he wants to and bathes on the quilt. Our own firstborn took a bottle of nail polish and did some artwork on our only wedding gift quilt. There are lots of 'almost' white or cream blenders that would be beautiful. Since I'm enjoying my first cup of coffee, I wandered around the net inspecting all manner of DWR quilts and came across many that were dismal fabric choices, IMHO, of course. I saw 3 that I want you to see. John Flynn has a good one, so does Connecting Threads. The one I believe you would really Really enjoy, given your penchant for precision and bold colors is at

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Just one more humble opinion: Choose fabrics/colors that you love. Creating with colors you do not enjoy will make the production so miserable. My quilting friend finished a 'requested' quilt of purple recently and we can't even say 'purple' in her presence. It will take a long time for her to recover the agony of trying to make something wonderful with a color she despised. ( go figure how she could hate purple but indeed she does). Thank you for inviting us to chime in. Please do give us progress reports. Polly

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Polly Esther

I do agree about the white. When I said that, I was thinking off white, rather than bed linen white. There will be a thread stitched design in the center of each ring, and the thread for topstitching is natural color so it should mate well with the off white. I have an Omnigrid Template Set with a bunch of examples of finished quilts of various color choices, plus instructions, and the plain background was the one that struck me as what I was looking for. That along with the scrappy color flow seemed to be a nice balance of yin-yang. Some of the more formal, or studied color choices, seemed, to me, to be a bit too rigid. But that was just these choices and in no way reflect all the other possibilities. John

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John

I am not even remotely surprised at how wonderful that table looks. Just beautiful. I am trying to really enjoy the vegetarian life but having a tough time at it. I have learned a lot but low fat and vegetarian is just tough for me. If you are using the Shar Jorgenson templates for the DWR you will be very pleased. They go together quite easily and create a beautuful quilt. I like both scrappy and organized DWR's. Having seen so many of your quilts I have no doubt whatever colors you end up using will make a quilt that will be enjoyed and appreciated for many years. It is kind of fun to work out of your comfort zone with color but to work with what you really hate is tough. That is a labor intensive quilt and you will put in a lot of time on it. I'll look forward to see what you end up doing. Taria

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Taria

That is the set I have. It looks to be very thorough in it's directions and approaches. I can't wait to get going on it. John

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John

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Susan Laity Price

You've very welcome, Susan. I just happened upon it when I asked WebCrawler to show DWR. I had no idea what doddlehead might be. John's got quite an adventure ahead of him; especially in choosing fabric. I saw several that only Jill's rescue pups would appreciate. Polly

"Susan Laity Price" thanks for introducing us to "Doodle-head". Love the way she has

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Polly Esther

John:

The table is lovely .... I love spare designs that allow the beauty of wood to take center stage. As to the name, you could call it a Fox Hunt Table and use it to provide refreshments to the hungry hunters. FYI: here in the USA the fox is NOT killed, nor injured. Fox Hunting is a typical activity in certain areas in Virginia.

Now, about the colors of the DWR quilt. Go for scrappy, so YOU will enjoy making it. I agree that it is very unpleasant to work (the operative word here is WORK) on a project that one does not admire. Quilt making is my hobby, not my work, so I want to admire the fabric, colors and style while I cut, sew, and quilt.

Pat in Virginia

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Pat in Virginia

Wow, that table is beautiful, John!!!

-Irene

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IMS

this is truly a very special peice! It's beautiful and I'm putting my name in for second grabs!

Donna in WA

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Lelandite

So pretty, Polly! thanks for the link -those ARE batiks, right? The only thing I don't like about that quilt is the backing. But one of my projects-in-mind is a DWR in batiks with a navy background. Someday.

The Shar Jorgensen templates >Usually, John, I'm not to be taken seriously but just this once, please do.

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Roberta

Oh,John, your woodwork is always gorgeous! and i love the bowl.

I agree that scrappy or 30's prints with WOW would be perfect. the colors tend to be softer and easy on the eyes for such a busy pattern. good luck and lets us know how you're progressing!

amy in CNY (who wants 3rd dibs..=))

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amy in CNY

Howdy!

The one-piece (solid) arc is my favorite way to make the DWR. Esp. good when hand-piecing. I used the John Flynn templates when I made my first DWR, 17 yrs ago (his pattern did not include finishing instructions at that time).

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I got Shar's set, very nice, lots of ideas.
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Quilt what you like; like what you quilt.

R/Sandy

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Sandy E

Every year when winter comes to Ohio, I stop riding bicycle, (exercising) as much because of the inclement weather. We eat the same healthy diet year round. I gain about 5-10 pounds. Ergo: you have to burn more calories than you eat. That has proven the rule for us. and it works. You have to burn up more calories than you consume or you will not be able to keep the weight off. I start riding bike in the summer and drop the weight to the regular level that I feel comfortable at. then the cycle begins again. John

John, Yep, when it all comes down calories coming and going are the real deal. I am lucky that I like to physically move and burn a lot of calories just in my day since I like to eat a lot too. Fat has lots of calories. That is just the way it is. Good or bad fat.

Calories counting kind of makes me think of people and money. With money you have to have at least as much coming in as going out. Folks in this country don't seem to get the money or the calorie counting too well. : (

So how is the fabric decision coming on the dwr? Taria

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Taria

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Taria

I piece strips together to make a solid block, and then cut the arcs out of that. I have taken to making seam notches on my templates and transferring those to the arcs, ovoids, and pointy doos, so as to make matching them up faster. Those two things save hours and hours of time on a DWR.

NightMist

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NightMist

On Wed, 5 May 2010 08:52:16 -0500, Allison wrote (in article ):

I like that advice. I also read somewhere that he said to eat food your great-grandmother would recognize. I try to remind myself of that ever time I want Cheetos instead of an apple.

Maureen

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Maureen Wozniak

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