Tuesday 20 March 2012

EZ Dresden


This quilt has been finished for a bit, I've been waiting to post until Katja could get the Dresden ruler in.  I started with an assortment of 5 1/2" strips of reproduction 30s fabric, 2.2 metres of background, an assortment of 4" scraps of solids and an EZ Dresden ruler.


Using the ruler I cut 5 1/2" dresden shapes from several different fabrics.


I used a pencil to lightly mark the centre of the dresden shape on the wrong side.


With right sides together I sewed across the top of the dresden shapes.  I trimmed a little off the centre corner to make the point easier to turn.


The fabric was then turned right side out.  I used my small screw driver to help turn the point out to a fairly crisp shape.  Using the pencil mark for a guideline I pressed the point with the seam matching my pencil line.

I sewed twenty dresden blades together to make a full plate.  I made ten full plates.  I sewed ten together to make a half plate. I made four half plates.

I cut 16" squares of background for the full plates and 8 1/2" x 16 rectangles for the half plates.  I machine appliquéd my plates onto the backgrounds, but you could hand appliqué if you want.  After the appliqué was finished I trimmed the squares to 15" and the half squares to 7 3/4" x 15".

For the centres of the plates I found a cup that was 3 1/4" in diameter and used it as a template.  I cut a piece of cardboard to size, cut the fabric a little bigger, basted around the edges, pulled the basting around the cardboard and then ironed the fabric in the circular shape.  I also machine appliquéd the circles.

8 comments:

  1. it looks great, i love these quilts where LOTS of fabric come together and look FANTASTIC xx

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  2. It looks even more lovely in person : )

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  3. I've used this Dresden ruler before. It works very well and is fun to use. Beautiful quilt!

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  4. Love that quilt. Amazing! Never thought of machining them on. One i would like to try one of these days!
    Donna

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  5. I love dresden plates!! One day ......I will make one...sigh....I have soooo many things started...I just cant start something new....sigh.... Thanks for sharing!! Love it!!

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  6. Love it!! this is my "Someday Project" I even went out and bought the dresen ruler!! getting closer to starting??

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  7. I love Dresden plates. I now have the regular sized ruler and the mini ruler.

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  8. easy? it wouldn't be for me and i wont to try

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