As I mentioned before… I see Dresden plates… where there are none!
Unfortunately you’ll have to take my word for it because I totally forgot to take a before pic.
This will have to do, sorry.
I picked up the lovely completed (or so Jody thought) quilt last week along with the gorgeous coordinating fabric. I had to buy the fabric to complete this project. Big ideas come with big pieces of fabric. You NEVER know just how much fabric a project may take, so you better get plenty so you don’t run out, REALLY!
I’ve been preoccupied with lots of things since purchasing this last Friday, one those things was having friends over for lunch today.
Well, you know how friends can sometimes be, well, opinionated? (What I have to say about opinions, “They’re like elbows, everyone has at least two!”) so the opinion today as they looked at my sewing table was that I shouldn’t put a Mini Dresden plate in the center of this seemingly complete quilt, but instead a Mini Dresden AND a Tiny Dresden!
They even demonstrated their idea.
I just happen to keep some orphan plates hanging in my sewing room.
They may be know-it-alls, but I agreed!
So after our lunch and a trek back to the same shop (criminals frequently return to the scene of the crime…) what can I say… I forgot these Friday!
And one might say, “Is that blue?” yes, temporary insanity? I don’t know why I bought a blue fabric. I never buy blue unless it’s for a patriotic quilt. But it caught my eye and it was on the $5 sale table. Actually it was all on sale.
Unfortunately, Mini Mall in Staunton is going out of business. Jody is retiring :(
Anyway, I set to cutting.
I first made the Mini Dresden plate.
Then I cut and sewed the Tiny Dresden petals.
It sure saves a lot of time to trim the seam allowance with a rotary cutter!
Before long I had the Tiny Dresden plate finished.
Then I made the center with a pretty green fabric.
I glued then stitched the center to the Tiny Dresden plate.
I got it wet to release the glue on the template so I could remove it.
Next I pressed it nice & flat again with Mary Ellen’s Best Press and glued it to the center of the Mini Dresden plate and stitched it down.
Then I glued that to the completed quilt & started to stitch it down.
This is where I remembered that I hadn’t taken a pic of the original quilt!
I sure miss my memory!
And isn’t it pretty?
Now you see what I kind of saw when I first laid eyes on the pretty quilt for sale.
Careful, you may just catch whatever I have!
Just Keep Sewing… Dresden plates!
Susan
Quilting my way through life! 