twinkie

I am what you call an average quilter. Some of the quilts I see on this board absolutely amaze me. Our quilt guild has an annual show. We have our own cottage (it is pretty large) in a beautiful park in Alabama. We do a lot of good for the community, St. Judes and quilts for the Sheriff's Department so I am proud to be a member. I never win any ribbon unless it was for an antique quilt I own. This year I won a 2nd place ribbon for my mini quilt but there were only 2 entries in this category. I have decided to try to do a quilt that someone says, "WOW, look at this one!" whether it wins a ribbon or not. Here is what I am working on. I am going to do 12 22" blocks of the dresden and then do a 10" border. In the border I am going to do a miniature dresden "flower" in each corner with a winding stem with leaves going down the border. Then have a miniature half dresden in the middle of the border with the stem coming up to it. The first dresden I have completed is 20" across.

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This is the center. It is only laying under the finished block

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I just completed one of the 6" "flowers"

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I would love to hear your comments (good or bad) and suggestions. Thanks for looking.

sinceresissy

Looks really good to me. I love the center flowers.

twinkie

I forgot to mention that the 6" flower has 81 pieces of fabric in it.

Patched

Looks really good to me. You are doing a good job.

toverly

Love it, this one is on my bucket list, one day. You hit the nail on the head for why I participate in my Guild's show. I don't do it to win, I do it for the comments. I love to hear people say, "Wow, I didn't know you could do that." or "How did you do that?"

popover

Thats going to be lovely

Homespun

Beautiful!!!

Tartan

​Pretty Dresden!

grannie cheechee

WOW!!! Your quilt is going to be BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!

cjsews

That's turning out pretty. Love the center you are using