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 Dresden Plate Fan Blades with Jelly Roll Scraps.

This is Part 1 of a 2 Part Dresden Plate Tutorial.

The rain is falling and it is breezy

but the worst of the hurricane is passing us 100 miles out to sea. 

and Nutmeg and I are sewing.

Today is National Sew a Jelly Roll Day.

so I have decided today is a good day to share how I have made

In March, I decided to use my blue, yellow, green and white jelly roll scraps by

Adding Dresden Plates to my Scrappy Irish Chain Quilt

To make scrappy Dresden plate ...

Today for Scrappy Saturday I am appliqueing my Dresden Plates

 to my alternate blocks in my

Scrappy Irish Chain & Dresden Plates Quilt

I used dots of applique glue top hold my pieces in place while I 

To make the green center for my plates, 

Scrappy Irish Chain Plus Dresden Plates

I have made some progress this week.

When I unpacked my plastic bins with my sewing stuff I found my chain blocks

 and the Dresden plates I had pieced and the blades laid out 

for what I thought was ...

... the rest of the center plates that I needed for my alternate blocks.

this is the state of my progress on my 

Scrappy Irish Chain Quilt

 I had just started machine piecing 12 Dresden Plates

 to applique to the center on my B Blocks. 

I have all of the fan blades done

but I can only get a few minutes here and there on my machine,

none of it the last few days.

My sewing machine has been covered.

Mr. Scrapatch has been working when he can on a home improvement project in our living and dining room ...

We’ve made a lot of big Dresden Rings, now let’s try piecing a Mini Dresden Plate!

Click Here to find the new Dresden Template Set – This new set of templates can cut dozens of Dresden Plates and now easily cuts Dresden Rings as well. They are redesigned from the original template set I created in 2017 and are now much more functional!

Check out the new Circle Template Set Here – This set of 5 circles are perfect for creating the appliqued center circles for your Dresden Plates. I’m also playing with fun quilting designs using quarter and ...

We have a second Dresden Ring this month and this time it’s a mix and match of our Curved and Pointy petals! Learn how to piece both styles of petals in this video:

Click Here to find the new Dresden Template Set – This new set of templates can cut dozens of Dresden Plates and now easily cuts Dresden Rings as well. They are redesigned from the original template set I created in 2017 and are now much more functional!

Find True Grips for the back of your templates here – I place these little grips on the backs of my ...

Now let’s stitch our blocks up a notch and piece a Dresden Ring within a Ring!

Click Here to find the new Dresden Template Set – This new set of templates can cut dozens of Dresden Plates and now easily cuts Dresden Rings as well. They are redesigned from the original template set I created in 2017 and are now much more functional!

Find True Grips for the back of your templates here – I place these little grips on the backs of my templates to stop them from sliding when cutting. One pack of True Grips should be enough to ...

Let’s learn how to piece a Dresden Ring! Our new and improved Dresden Template Set is now available and I can’t wait to teach you how to use them!

Note – in the video I mention peeling a film off the right side of the templates. You do not need to do this step. I’ve already peeled the film off all of the templates.

Click Here to find the new Dresden Template Set – This new set of templates can cut dozens of Dresden Plates and now easily cuts Dresden Rings as well. They are redesigned from the original ...

 It is time to reveal the latest Endeavourers Challenge quilt, this quarter the theme was Colour Theory. I thought that I had this theme sussed when I bought a postcard of Munsell's Colour System in a Dundee museum nearly two years ago! Hah!, no such luck, when I started researching the Colour System I realised that it would take a lot more research and a lot of fabric, or fabric painting to do the theme justice, so I ditched that idea :)

Not being of a particularly scientific bent, I wanted to avoid tieing myself up in knots with systems ...