Dresden Garden finish!

 I took my newly finished Dresden Garden quilt to guild yesterday, and two quilters held it while I took a picture.

This looks a bit blurry to me although it looks fine on my phone.  I'll see if I can get a clearer one when I show and tell it at my other guild Tuesday night.  I used a pattern on the Riley Blake website for the fabric bundle "Flora" and hummed the tune of the old song while I worked.  But I diverged after making the Dresden Plates, adding the paper pieced butterflies and then the subsequent borders.  

Robin immediately recognized the "potato chip" blocks in the next to the last border.  Those are fun to make although my mom would probably tell me they make the quilt too "busy."   I enjoyed making the pieced binding.  This quilt measures 72" x 72" so will fit a twin bed.  I have no recipient in mind for this quilt - I never do - but I will enjoy having it on the guest bed for a while.

Dresdens and other stuff

 

Right now, my favorite quilt block is the Dresden Plate, so when I volunteered to make the local guild's December block of the month, that's what I decided to make.   I wanted to have one last year when I did the blocks of the month lottery for guild, but all of those blocks were 6" so they could be mailed.  That size would have been way too fiddly for some of the beginners in the group.

Here is a finished one in Christmas colors, and then I also have an unfinished one in wintery colors so that I can demo how they come together.  I usually use my Darlene Zimmerman template for the 20 blades, but this pattern from the state guild newsletter has14 blades.  It works up into a 12" finished block.  I enjoy fussy cutting the centers, although I didn't do that with the blue one.  It will have a glitzy center.   

Now that I've made these, I wonder if I should make them for next year's Rainbow Scrap Challenge, but - oh no! - I told myself I was only going to make pineapple blocks.  I'd like to work on the exploding heart and strippy Vermont quilts in 2022.  And what about finishing the 16" block quilt?   Too many ideas, so little time!