Dresden Plate Quilt
 

Hi, I have made several quilts (I still considermyself a beginner) but I do not send them out to be finished. I stitch in theditch or zig zag around my design (usually squares, triangles, etc.) tocomplete my “sandwich”. I am making a twin size quilt for my granddaughterusing the Dresden plate. I am making the 20 blades and sewing them together.
Here are my two questions: What I would like to do issew by machine the finished blades onto a 14” square, batting and the bottommaterial (sandwich) all at once (just following the points around and then addthe circle) How do I connect the finished squares (4 across and 5 down)? If Isew by machine the finished plate and middle onto a 14” block how do I finishthe final quilt? If I stich in a ditch the 14” squares, won’t this be too big(when the batting usually says10” apart)? Any help or suggestions would begreatly appreciated.

I think you are talking about quilt as you go....if you go to YouTube, search for quilt as you go, there are several videos on that technique.....

GeriB said what i was going to say. a picture is worth a 1000 words!

If you plan to sew the Dresden blades together and adding the circle; then will applique them (by machine?) to the 14" square, I would suggest that once you put the completed blocks together and sandwich, that you machine quilt around the dresdens and then maybe SID the blocks--that way you should avoid problems with not enough quilting or not close enough.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...e-t263002.html

Above is a link to the DP I did using QAYG.

What I did was make the points on the blades first. Then I assembled the blades.

Then I made the circles around a heavy plastic circle template that was wrapped in foil. I basted around the circle and pulled the threads tight around the template and pressed it with an iron. Then I gently popped the template out and pressed again.

I appliqued the circles to the "flower" using a tiny ZZ stitch, then appliqued the plate to the background using the same small ZZ stitch.

After that, I assembled my sandwich blocks. I quilted 1/4" around inside of each blade and did decorative stitch in circles to look like center of a daisy.

I then outlined the plate very closely, echoed a few times, then went from point to point in a variation of a stop sign shape.

When I quilted the squares, I left enough room at the edges to join them.

First, I sewed the backs of the squares together to make a row. I used 1/4" seam, right sides together, pinning the batt out of the way.

Then, I flipped it over and trimmed excess batt, folded one side over onto another and stitched flap down, leaving enough unstitched to join next row.

When the quilt was assembled, I quilted a little medallion in each place where four squares met. I made a border and quilted it before I attached it to the quilt using the same technique I'd assembled squares with.

I stitched the layers together at the edge.

Then I sewed binding to the back, flipped it around to the front, used straight stitch to stitch down, mitring the corners as I went.

Then I put a decorative stitch on front where binding met quilt.

14" is too far apart. You will need to add some additional quilting. If you don't, the batting will bunch and/or tear thru use and laundering and the quilt will be ruined.

A photo would help but like in the old days, Dresden plates had the background crosshatch (that is all straight stitching with a walking foot). They would outline the inside of each plate 1/4" from the outside edge. Looking forward to see a photo of the quilt.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Dres...He0VAPEQ7AkIKA

Thanks for all the suggestions! I have a lot to think about and decide which will be easier for me.

Here is a video where no hand sewing is used and it is a QAYG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pL36s08wg4