Dresden Variations…..

Yesterday I posted about my initial foray into making Dresden Plates….

And while I enjoyed making them, I didn’t want EVERY plate to look exactly the same…..

Since I want these to look like flowers, my first thought was to round out the corners.

I accomplished this by drawing the rounded version onto lightweight interfacing…

I placed each one of these on top of the “ray”…..

……. and sewed around it…..

Then I turned it, leaving this, slightly uneven, Dresden ray…..

No….it’s not perfect….but neither are flowers!!!

This is the final plate…..

I LIKE IT!!

My other thought was to make a set of plates where the background fabric was used in half of the rays so that it basically disappears.

For this one, I chose to NOT make the points of the rays.

My first step was to cut and sew the pairs of fabrics…..

When pieced it looked like this…..

Now I needed to finish the edges, so I placed a piece of interfacing over the circle and sewed around it……

After a quick turn…..

…..and I have a circular plate….

The question will be whether or not I can quilt it so that the background fabrics basically disappear…..

It looks promising……stay tuned!!!

I will get back to this piece on Thursday, showing you some REALLY fun Grid Quilting, but between now and then, I have a great quote, some inspiration and ideas for a great gift for your quilting friends…….

Stay tuned!!!

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