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Linen Closet- June

Through the years I have made several quilts as gifts for weddings. So in observance of June, the wedding month, I thought I'd pull out pics of the most recent wedding gift. I have always wanted to try the traditional Double Wedding Ring, but its arches and curves kind of intimidate me. I found this pattern, which is completely comprised of straight lines but visually reads as circles, in Judith Martin's Scrap Quilts. (It's title is "Maltese Circles".)



In the past, I considered the time of year for the wedding, or something about the couple, to choose a color palette. This was the first time I used the wedding itself as inspiration for the quilt top. The bride and groom chose plum for their wedding color, which, it turns out, is a color in the eye of the beholder- there are so many shades of purple available! Purple wasn't a color I'd worked with much, so it was a challenge... I like challenges. I went with a purple on the reddish side and chose grays as an accent color. I picked up the mint green, which was in the pattern of a paisley fabric I'd found, for a background color.


And, of course I had to use up the remnants for the backing...


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