Thanks for this. I have fabric for a dresden plate and only wanted to do 12 blades so this will be great. Your fabric are really pretty.

Than you for sharing your tut with us. Great directions!

I hate to show my egnorance, but I think it's widely known anyway. How did you figure that you needed a 105 degree angle. I understand that 360/12 = 30 degrees, but I'm lost between there and the 105. Hope you don't mind explaining. I'm envious of your geometry skills.

Thank you!

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

very good. love the colors and all the flowers. i am going to give this a try. thanks for the tut

Thank you all, I'm glad you appreciate the explanation. I'm an engineer so figuring angles and lengths comes easier to me than some of the other parts of sewing. I'm hand appliquéing the plates down and my stitches look like chicken scratch on the back!


Each petal covers 30 degrees of the circle, which you can imagine might be 15 degrees on each half, away from the center. A square angle is 90 degrees and the petal sides are each 90 + 15 = 105 degrees.

Wow There's no way I would've figured that out. You are awesome!! :thumbup:

How smart of you to make a dresden plate without a template! Thanks for a great tut!

Thanks for the tutorial.
I bookmarked it. Hugs, Sharon