Originally Posted by mlaceruby
My MIL used to use the butter bowl lids!
I still have some of her plastic butter bowl templates!
and I made my first several quilts with them.
I traced around them with a pencil or fine pt pen and then cut them out.
That's what I used, margarine tub lids. I still have a Dresden Plate one in a bag of the blocks that I was hand piecing. Since it's by hand, the seam line is marked instead of the cutting line.