I agree the quilt is beautiful. The Dresden Plate quilt is an easy quilt to make. My first was made about 10 years ago and is all scrap - full size (5 inch blades). Then last Christmas started making the mini-Dresden plate quilts - one with 9 plates, another with 28 plates, one with 9 plates, another 12 plates and the current one with 40 plates. I have 10 batik plates sewed together, but not sewed to the background. Think I'm addicted to them. Enjoyed reading your blog entries and my start in quilting is very similiar - wife's grandmother gave me a log cabin quilt and I said I could do that. That was just the beginning. Keep up the good work. Robert, in northern Iowa.