Go Back  Quiltingboard Forums > Main
Great Big Dresden Plate >

Great Big Dresden Plate

Great Big Dresden Plate

Old 09-18-2012, 12:25 PM
  #1  
Super Member
Thread Starter
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Here and there
Posts: 1,669
Default Great Big Dresden Plate

Someone asked about how to enlarge a Dresden plate pattern to make it 30 inches. I would have pm'd her, but I can't find the link. Unless I missed some of the answers, those of us who told her to get the pattern she has enlarged were probably wrong. It you do that, (I know because I tried) the hole in the middle is too big.

This is what I did and I just finished a Dresden plate that is 36 inches from the tip of one blade to the other and the hole in the middle is just what it would have been if I had used the smallest template possible.

I have the Easy Dresden ruler by Darlene Zimmerman. I laid that ruler down on computer copy paper that I had taped together to make a sheet about 8 1/2 by 22. I then laid a 24 inch ruler on top of the Easy Dresden ruler along each edge and drew a line 15 inches long. Of course, I did that on both sides. Then I drew a straight line across the top and across the bottom, cut the pattern out with a rotary cutter and voila, a Dresden plate pattern that will make a 36 inch plate.

If you don't cut it the whole 15 inches, you can make a smaller plate.

I think you could probably make the pattern out of something sturdier than copy paper. Whatever you decide to use, the big plate that I just finished--except for putting on the background and putting the circle over the middle-- is a stunner. froggyintexas
FroggyinTexas is offline  
Old 09-18-2012, 12:27 PM
  #2  
Senior Member
 
liont's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2012
Location: USA
Posts: 475
Default

I did something similiar but with plastic folder material - those transparent stuff they use as report cover.
I did a 40" gigantic dresden.
liont is offline  
Old 09-18-2012, 12:59 PM
  #3  
Power Poster
 
QuiltnNan's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: western NY formerly MN, FL, NC, SC
Posts: 51,433
Default

i have also extended the length of the EZ template. it came out just right
QuiltnNan is offline  
Old 01-18-2016, 10:19 PM
  #4  
Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Santee, CA
Posts: 14
Default

Thank you so much for this! I am making a 36 inch dresden plate. I unfortunately do not understand the directions. Please if you could show me a picture of when you placed the 24 inch ruler on top of the dresden ruler.
Quiltaria is offline  
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
ontheriver
Pictures
62
01-22-2013 06:47 AM
chuckbere15
Pictures
203
02-15-2012 07:54 AM
craftybear
Links and Resources
0
03-18-2011 06:03 PM
craftybear
Links and Resources
1
03-11-2011 07:23 AM

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


FREE Quilting Newsletter