Double Wedding Ring

Despite this creative confidence, the DWR pattern still presents as complex; it is one that puts off beginners as it includes a lot of building units and curved piecing.

Just over three decades ago, in my early 20s, I joined a class by (then well-known tutor) Noreen Dunn to make a Double Wedding Ring quilt using the method that Mary Ellen Hopkins (also very well known) had shared in her (then) recently published book.

I hadn’t been quilting long enough to be wary of curves, so when I was told this is how you do it, I just did it. Fortunately for me, my curved piecing turned out okay. It certainly helped that I had a patient teacher peering over my shoulder, giving me guidance.

At the time, the technique was ‘modern’ and Mary Ellen’s book included the templates and instructions needed to make this curved pieced beauty. Back then, many people were put off by sewing curves. The pattern I used in no way diminished the need for sewing curves,