A CLOUD OF QUILT PATTERNS: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PATTERN IN BLOG FORM UPDATES & ADDITIONS BY BARBARA BRACKMAN

Monday, August 27, 2018

A Wedding Ring Chain

An unusual pattern.

Both of these vintage examples from eBay seller
GB-best

I've had a lot of questions about the pattern over the years.
And few answers.

Here's the four-block repeat

And here's the block.

It's NOT in BlockBase. I guess it should be in the category
of Miscellaneous with curves, but it's not.

It must have been a published pattern. All the photos of vintage examples
seem to be from the 1940s, '50s, maybe 1960s.

Some better pieced than others, but looking pretty much the same.

Until lately:

Cathy Kirk's Chain Reaction from Denyse Schmidt prints



Cathy Kirk sells pattern and templates for Chain Reaction:

And I do believe Nancy Landon might sell a pattern
for Unchained Melody at her Cactus Quilt Shop.

The templates come in three sizes.

Ivan and Lucy made a version in 1930s reproductions:

Which they call Chain Link.
Here's their Etsy shop:

But it must have been a published pattern with a name seventy years ago or so.


UPDATE:
Someone called my attention to a vintage example that quilt dealer Julie Silber posted a few months ago. It looks to be appliqued...and round. Roundish.


UPDATE: I should have asked Merikay Waldvogel before I posted this.
It's from the Laura Wheeler/Alice Brooks syndicate. Link of Friendship
published in 1944.



And one more version:

3 comments:

  1. that is a neat pattern I have not seen it before

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  2. I saw a version of this pattern in the Stories Unfolded exhibit in Jackson Mississippi from that state's department of archives and History. It was a quilt from the 1930's called slave chain. ISBN-13:978-0-938896-05-7

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  3. I love the updated chains. They kick it up a notch and look great.

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