It's a Quilt-in-a-Box

Jan's generosity to our Holy Trinity quilters continues to shine through. This week I unearthed a box filled with the makings of a very scrappy Double Wedding Ring quilt, basically a quilt-in-a-box (do they even make jack-in-the-boxes anymore?). I ended up bringing it home because no one else was willing to tackle the curved piecing required to get this to the finish line. 

There's been so much work done already to get it to this point that I just didn't want to see it waste away on a shelf someplace for eternity. From the look of the fabrics, I'm thinking that it may have been cut in the 80s. I checked with Jan and she couldn't confirm but she did say that she bought everything as a kit, so it looks like someone else may have cut all of the pieces.

It appears that just about everything that I need to get started is there, with several oval sections either completed...

or in progress.

There's also a bag of cut pieces all bundled and ready to sew.

And I think that all of the oval and ring centres are cut, too.

There are two columns of seven rings already assembled. I'll have to measure but I think I only need to add three more columns to get it to the 48" x 64" needed for Quilts for Survivors. It may be a little long so there's a chance that I'd take two rings off the bottom in order to make the proportions work.

Job one is going to be to sort all of the bits and bobs and then give everything a good press. Once I know what's what it will be time to sit down at the machine and figure out just what I've gotten myself into!....M