By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador We're ready to applique our Dresden Plate to a background block. I always cut my blocks a little larger than necessary and then trim them up after the applique is complete. If you're working without a pattern, measure across the Dresden Plate and add 3" as a guideline [...]
By Diane Harris, HQ Stitch Brand Ambassador We're well on our way to making a Dresden Plate. Today we'll join the blades we made in Part 3. If you missed them, see Part 1 and Part 2. Use a stitch length of 2mm or about 13 stitches per inch. This is a normal stitch length [...]
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, [...]
I'm making the Quiltville Mystery Quilt by Bonnie Hunter this year, along with tens of thousands of other quilters. I've done it twice before and I enjoyed it each time. This year's quilt is called Good Fortune, and it has some string pieced units. My HQ Stitch 510 made short work of them. I needed [...]
I've been working on a new Christmas quilt called Christmas Figs. I started with a fat quarter bundle of Moda by the same name, and then I added in more reds and greens from my stash. I cut the first few blocks before I went to a retreat in September. They looked a lot like [...]
I have one more strategy I employ when cutting up fabric to make scrap quilts. Once I've done the work of pressing, layering and squaring up fabrics that I'm going to cut, I never cut just what is needed. I make other cuts, too. Here's what I mean. I've layered these four fabrics for an [...]
