Continuous Stitching for Golden Wedding Ring

Inklingo Golden Wedding Ring

HAND OR MACHINE?

I included detailed instructions for machine piecing in the Golden Wedding Ring Design Book (free for a limited time), .

However, GWR is fabulous for hand piecers, too—especially because there are so many opportunities for continuous stitching.

How to sew stars by hand

CONTINUOUS STITCHING BY HAND
As usual, when you hand piece, you can sew the seams in any order. It is not like machine piecing which often has one preferred sequence.

In the image above, each star half is sewn with one thread because I sewed toward the center of the star.

Continuous stitching is optional but it has a wonderful benefit for hand piecers because if you “plan your route,” you can often sew several seams before you need to break the thread and start again.

Continuous stitching allows you to stay in the zone, loading one stitch after another.

It speeds things up and it is relaxing, all at the same time.

 

When I join the two halves together, I “circle the intersection” to get perfect points.

I have been teaching “Continuous Stitching” and “Circling the Intersection” for a long time. They are two of the wonderful hand piecing techniques in my Quilted Diamonds books (2002, 2004).

Golden Wedding Ring is a good way to demonstrate this technique, so let’s go.

Inklingo continuous stitching

When I add the green shapes around the center star (above), I can start anywhere. At the end of each seam, just turn a corner and keep on going. If your thread is long enough, you can sew 12 little seams before you stop to break the thread.

You can consider continuous stitching the same way you think of chain piecing when you machine piece. It is an efficient way to get a lot accomplished in a short time. It can also get you in a very relaxed mood.

Hand piecing Golden Wedding Ring

Continuous stitching works perfectly for adding the next 6 shapes to complete the center.

 

Hand piecing Golden Wedding Ring

Next, this empty ring is quick to sew (6 sets of 2 seams) and . . .

Sewing sequence for Golden Wedding Ring

. . . then add that ring to the center with 6 gently curving seams. Perfection.

This is just one way to get a finished GWR “block.” As always with hand piecing, you can sew the pieces together in any order you like. You don’t have to follow this example.

Assembling Golden Wedding Ring

Join the “blocks” together with more continuous stitching around the melon shapes.

Inklingo Golden Wedding Ring

This sophisticated, elegant design used to be for the most elite, expert quilters but . . .

Print Wedding Ring shapes on fabric

. . . when you print the shapes on fabric, you might be surprised by how simple and straightforward the preparation and sewing become.

Cut on a line. Sew along a line.

 

Inklingo Golden Wedding Ring

HAND OR MACHINE?
Cathi hand pieces everything and you can see her first GWR rings on Quilt Obsession too.

I must admit that I sewed most of my GWR samples by machine because it is so fast and easy that way. I included detailed instructions for machine piecing in the Golden Wedding Ring Design Book.

BOTH!
For most quilters, I think a combination of hand and machine piecing is the best of both worlds. Hand piece for portability and machine piece for speed.

 

How to press wedding ring quilt

AND . . . whether you sew by hand or by machine, it presses perfectly, so every ring looks fabulous from the front. There is more detail about that in the design book too.

Introduction to Inklingo

It is easy to imagine that printing on fabric is more complicated than it is, so I ask everyone to start with the free shape collection!Main Beginner’s Page.

 

Golden Wedding Ring Design Book

Main Golden Wedding Ring Page  The Design Book is FREE for a limited time.

Other GWR pages you might like:

I hope you love sewing this design as much as I do. I would love to see your rings. Thank you for visiting.

Linda & Monkey in Canada

3 thoughts on “Continuous Stitching for Golden Wedding Ring”

  1. Hello Linda,

    This is so much fun to make. I use both, hand and machine. Mostly hand stitching, but sometimes machine helps.
    So tank you for these little lessons, they are so useful.

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  2. Continuous sewing and circling intersections are both lessons I learned from you in person and through your Quilted Diamonds II book and am SO grateful that I did! Those two lessons alone make sewing any block fun and bound to turn out perfectly!! I’ve become so accustomed to circling intersections that I do it even for 3-fabric intersections

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