If any of you know me, you know that yellow and grey are just not my colors. Yet, when I was walking through my fabric store, The Cotton Shop, the other day I fell is love with this fabric lines by Jackie Studios (there is also 1-2 fabrics by Camelot Fabrics). I really was drawn to these fabrics and just had to get them. BUT FOR WHAT? Do quilters really need to ask that question when purchasing fabric? No! Yet my husband continues to think there must be a purpose for my fabric purchases.
It just so happened that this store was having a fun class on using the dresden plate. This is just what I have been wanting to do and just what use lots of prints of this fun fabric!
It turned out that the dresden plate was so much easier than it looked.
You will need:
a template, I have the EZ Quilting My an Easy Dresden Quilt template
rotary cutter & mat
at least 5 different colors of fabric
white (or any solid) fabric for the background)
sewing machine & accessories
Tip #1 the Block will turn out much larger than you think it will. I cut some of my wedges with 6" strips of fabric and they create a 14 1/2" circular block. Other wedges were cut with 5" strips of fabric and they created a 12" circular block.
Start out by cutting your fabric into strips the width that you want your wedge length to be. With these strips and your rotary cutter cut your wedges rotating back n forth as shown above. You will need 20 wedges per circular block, so I made 4 of each color per block.
After all the wedges are cut, fold the wide end of the wedge in half (right sides together) and stitch them. You can see I like to chain stich making these steps go so much faster
Next we turn the seam right side out and finger press open. Iron this now so that it will lay straight.
Now you can start sewing the wedges together, make sure you backstitch the top of the wedges so that they will not come undone.
After each addition you will need to iron the pieces to keep them straight. Ironing is VERY important to get your dresden block to lay straight.
Keep all the seams going the same directions while ironing so that it will lay much better.
I stiched 4 groups of 5 together and then stitched those four quarters together
Next the dresden circles all need appliqued onto their background. You can decide which way you would like to applique these on, I am doing the applique by had.
Next circles will need to be appliqued to the center of the dresden 'flowers'. Mine have yet to be finished but I will be using 5" circles for the 6" dresden wedge flowers and 3 1/2" circles for the 5" dresden wedge flowers.
Last of all you finish this like you would any quilt with your backing, batting, quilting and binding. Then I will have a beautiful table runner for my dining room table.
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