By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador So far we've covered some Dresden Plate math and we've seen how to cut blades from strips. The fun starts here—making the blades into plates! Let me say up front that if this seems detailed or fussy, it's because these little things make it work. I've learned these [...]
An acrylic template may be used for cutting the blades to make a Dresden Plate quilt block.
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador I have an ongoing love affair with the Dresden Plate. It began about 10 years ago when I made this quilt from vintage blocks. All Drezzed Up by Diane Harris I’d purchased 20 blocks for 20 dollars (my kind of bargain!) and I made 32 smaller [...]
by Diane Harris I’m always poking around the web for new ideas, and at the end of last year I stumbled on “temperature blankets.” But since quilters hate it when people call the things they make blankets, I’m going to call this a “climate quilt” instead. I first heard about this with people who knit [...]
For the first few decades of making quilts, I never thought about how I stored them—which generally meant that I folded them in the middle, and then in the middle again and so on before putting them on a closet shelf or in a plastic tote. Permanent creases down the center in both directions, [...]
