Originally Posted by weezie

Bridgette, I did the Eleanor Burns' dresden plate from one of her shows/books. A photo of mine is below; in it (which is only a top so far), I only had about 5 colors repeated in the plate, one of which I used for sashing. I was just playing around with some fabric I had given to me and wanted to try Eleanor's method. I would rather have had another row of blocks, but ran out of fabric. (The binding is the same as the sashing.)

There are so many ways to change the look ... you just have to audition and see what you like as far as the plate center circle, the sashing, corner blocks. If you can take a dk. blue background square and one of your plates to the fabric store, you could maybe see what's right for you there before you spend your money.