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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I have recently become enamored with the Dresden Plate design and decided that it would be a perfect pattern for my guild challenge (due this Tuesday)!!

I had never made Dresden Plates before so decided to make a video to help myself learn as well as teach those who are interested.

They are amazingly easy to make so please enjoy……

If you are reading this via email, follow this link to see the YouTube Video....  https://youtu.be/E6sif4NZcU

After making a few larger Dresden Plate Designs, I pulled out some rulers that I had purchased when I was in Sweden……

The first was the MINI Dresden Plate from SuzN Quilts…..

…..and the second was the TINY Dresden…..

The MINI Version can be purchased HERE

The TINY Version can be purchased HERE

These templates are 30-degree angles, so it only takes 12 spokes to make a full plate.

For the Mini plates, I started with a 3-inch strip……

….while the TINY version started with a 2-inch strip…..

At this point, I was working with some fairly small pieces…..

The TINY template produced a 3-1/4 inch plate…..

But, then I got REALLY crazy and cut them even smaller, cutting the initial strip at 1.5-inches and only using a portion of the TINY template…..

At this stage, I found it too hard to hold the ruler in place, so I drew in the cutting lines and then cut them separately.

Interestingly, as I stitched it together, I only ended up needing 8 of the wedges to complete the plate…..

This one ended up being 1-3/4’s inch in size!!

So small but WAY TOO CUTE!!

Tomorrow I will show you some of the other alterations that I made as I proceeded to piece my Dresden-Plate flower garden!!

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