Searching quilting designs - Page 4

>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

>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.

>Cool! Sounds like drawing the facets on a cut gemstone -or did I get
>it wrong? (Do I actually have to get a pencil out?)
>Never saw any quilting design like this. Maybe the answer to what
>other folks have done with it is "nothing"!
>Roberta in D
>On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:29:36 GMT, nightmiste@gmail.com (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