Searching quilting designs - Page 3

> 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
> --
> Legolas is my house elf

>I just got the newsletter from the Stencil Company in my
>mailbox. You can find their page here:
>http://quiltingstencils.com/
>I buy from them but even if you aren't buying at the time
>you sure can get a lot of ideas from all their options.
>Everytime I see them at the quilt show I just am overwhelmed
>with all the choices.
>Hey NM I was thinking about Ash and wondering how the
>school year has started for him. I hope well.
>HTH, Taria
>> 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
>> --
>> Legolas is my house elf

>I just got the newsletter from the Stencil Company in my
>mailbox. You can find their page here:
>http://quiltingstencils.com/
>I buy from them but even if you aren't buying at the time
>you sure can get a lot of ideas from all their options.
>Everytime I see them at the quilt show I just am overwhelmed
>with all the choices.
>Hey NM I was thinking about Ash and wondering how the
>school year has started for him. I hope well.
>HTH, Taria
>> 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
>> --
>> Legolas is my house elf

>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 in seperate post
>>I just got the newsletter from the Stencil Company in my
>>mailbox. You can find their page here:
>>http://quiltingstencils.com/
>>I buy from them but even if you aren't buying at the time
>>you sure can get a lot of ideas from all their options.
>>Everytime I see them at the quilt show I just am overwhelmed
>>with all the choices.
>>Hey NM I was thinking about Ash and wondering how the
>>school year has started for him. I hope well.
>>HTH, Taria
>>> 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
>>> --
>>> Legolas is my house elf
>--
>Legolas is my house elf

>ack!!!
>i lost ya part way thru that explantion but am curious to see it when it is
>found.