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Star Wedding Ring Quilt-King

$975.00

Measures 112″ x 114″ long.

This Star Wedding Ring quilt is a stunning product of Lancaster County’s fine quilters. The original Wedding Ring pattern now has stars bursting from between the rings. Take a closer look at the border, and you will see that the scallops follow the form of the rings. The quilt is hand-quilted with 3352 yards of thread by one woman to ensure uniform stitching. On a king bed, choose your drop measurement of 17 inches per side.

Homemade quilts combine the warmth of a bed cover with a unique story told by the quilters from Lancaster County, PA. Every homemade quilt is as unique as the family, busy mother or Amish ladies group who uses a needle and thimble to thread stitch on the quilt. Some quilts involve hundreds of hours and thousands of stitches to create a unique patchwork quilt that will last for generations.

When you peruse our HOMEMADE QUILTS you are shopping for an item that tells a story and adds meaning to your bedroom! Discover more about our unique patchwork quilts and the stories behind them

We have a lot of quilts! Want to see a gallery of the major patterns? Checkout our Common Amish Quilt Patterns.

Community Creating Beauty: How We Piece Scrap Quilts

We source our homemade patchwork quilts from local Amish and Mennonite artisans, who craft them by hand with the care and art of the American quilting tradition. Frequently, families work together to piece and quilt these bedspreads. With their help, we offer you patchwork quilts, each unique and handmade.

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The Postage Stamp is a popular Scrap Quilt Pattern

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Square and Applique Scraps compliment in this Country Hearts Quilt

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A few Scrap Quilt variations.

Frugality Creating Beauty: How Scrap Quilts Developed

Scrap quilts are called a variety of different names, each a thread connected to quilters years ago who first used this pattern.

Called a “charm” quilt in the late 19th century, young women collected hundreds of different fabrics from their family and friends. Perhaps if they collected 999 different squares, their true love would bring them the thousandth–and their happily-ever-after dream, too. One quilting blogger speculates that collecting these fabrics may have given girls opportunities to ask their love interest for a contribution!

The scrap quilt has also been called a “beggar” quilt, referring to quilters asking each other for contributions to their projects. Trying to put together a bedspread without repeating every fabric, they also called the quilts “odd feller” quilts–every piece was an odd feller. Some families recall their mother repeating one square, however, so that a child sick in bed might be entertained looking for the matching patches.

Still another name scrap quilts went by is the “postage stamp” quilt, so called because quilters would use their tiniest scraps, sometimes no bigger than a postage stamp. Perhaps the original motivation was not wasting the smallest piece (historians recall the scarcity of the Great Depression in this), but it also became a challenge at some point. Quilters would collect thousands of pieces to compete with each other in making stitched masterpieces.

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Twin Sized Postage Stamp Quilt

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Ancient Star is another Scrap Quilt Pattern

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A color coordinated Scrap Quilt is an exquisite work of art!

Amish Homemade Quilt Facts

For hundreds of years, a variety of procedures have been developed to make it much simpler for quilters to stitch multi-angled quilts together. One of these methodologies is called paper piecing, which is normally employed to put together the elaborate edges of the Mariner's Compass quilt. Paper piecing, as it name specifies, uses a distinct paper pattern onto which the fabric segments are stitched. The pattern guides the quilter to successfully stitch the pieces together so that the finalized top will lay out flat. Solutions such as this are a tremendous help to our quilters!

A quilt is not merely a cozy bed cover: it is also a piece of artwork. The artists who design our quilts pick top quality vivid materials and organize them into an eye-catching work of art. Select from our stock of over 2 hundred Amish homemade quilts for a quilt that best complements your home design.

Though the pieces of fabric are stitched by machine to guarantee tighter stitching, all the quilting is done by hand. 100% cotton fabrics compose the top and bottom of the quilt. The batting sandwiched between those 2 layers, however, is 100% polyester. This polyester batting warranties both warmth as well as superb washing results.

You will discover our quilts to be rather large in length and width. In fact, most of our quilts are generous enough to take care of the necessity for a dust ruffle and pillow shams. Just as bed heights vary, each and every quilt's sizing varies. You'll find we post the quilt's dimensions along with the calculated drop for you to compare to the size you want to have. Please do your research prior to buying!

Washing Quilts?

Fortunately, these quilts are indeed washable in a washing machine! We suggest the following guidelines for best results:

Did you know?

Our artists hold a truly significant undertaking. They possess the difficult responsibility of choosing complimentary fabrics from an almost infinite selection of fabric materials fabricated by a wide range of pattern artists and companies. Each material chosen is pivotal to the final aesthetics of the quilt. The artist of this quilt did a fine job of deciding on beautiful textures that match each other and combine favorably. That is the reason we regard a quilt a work of artistry!

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