$925.00
Measures 103″ x 112″ long.
The Star Wedding Ring quilt is a new twist to a traditional pattern. Gray and blue stars burst from between the intertwined blue and white rings. This handmade quilt is very neatly hand-quilted with 326 yards of thread. This quilt is dated by its designer. On a queen bed, this quilt will have a 21-inch drop 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.
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.
A quilt is not just a comfortable bedspread: it is also a masterpiece of artwork. The crafters who design our quilts select high quality vivid fabrics and organize them into an appealing masterpiece. Choose from our stock of over 2 hundred Amish handmade quilts for a quilt that best matches your taste.
While the fabric pieces are stitched by machine to make sure tighter sewing, all the quilting is done by hand. 100% cotton materials make up the top and bottom of the quilt. The batting sandwiched between those 2 layers, however, is 100% polyester. This polyester batting guaranties both warmth as well as superb washing results.
You will discover our quilts to be reasonably sizable in length and width. Almost all of our quilts are generous enough to reduce the need for a dust ruffle or pillow shams. Just as bed heights are different, each quilt's measurements is different as well. We publish the quilt's measurements alongside the determined drop for you to compare to the measurements you need. Kindly do your homework ahead of making a purchase!As a matter of fact, these quilts are undoubtedly washable in a washing machine! We recommend complying with these guidelines for ideal handling results:
The term handmade is generally used to define crafts produced by a craftsman in contrast to a factory. Each handmade quilt is distinct since it is not mass-produced. Not all the stitching in a handmade quilt is done by hand. Just as the woodcrafter utilizes mechanical tools to create his craftsmanship, our seamstresses use different tools to craft these quilts. The seamstress cuts her items with a rotating knife and sew them with each other on the sewing machine. The quilter collaborates with just thread, needle, as well as thimble to quilt hundreds of small stitches throughout the quilt. Handmade is a gift: it is the gift of time as well as ability to develop an item uniquely for you.