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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Rotaries in Bloom Quilt Blocks

I am making quilt blocks for the block-of-the-month row-by-row mystery/swap, called a Quilter's Garden. Deana from DOD Mystery Blog is designing these blocks. September's blocks were called Good Vibrations and they were cute sewing machine blocks. October's blocks are called Rotaries in Bloom, which are Dresden Plates with a rotary cutter in the center and are just darling! You can purchase Deana's patterns as they come out each month at Craftsy or Etsy. If you join the Mystery Swap like I have, then you get the patterns for free, but you have to swap at least one block and post your finished blocks to her blog each month. If you join now, you will need to purchase the September pattern. You can go to Deana's blog to read all about it, if you want to join in.

I finished my Rotaries in Bloom Blocks right away, but wasn't sure what I was going to do for the "rotary blade". Deana suggests using a metal washer and sewing a black button on top. I was going to to do that, but then I decided to fuse silver lame' on as the blade. Since I know this quilt will be a wall quilt and not be washed, I thought that using lame' would be fine. I just need to stitch the blades in place on my blocks. I photographed these with the lame' and button just sitting on top and not stitched down yet. The block I am trading will not have the blade because I do not know who will be receiving my block yet and whether or not they will be washing their quilt, so I will let the recipient add their own blade to this block. I made 5 blocks and will swap one block.

The block above is the block I will be swapping.

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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Dare to Dresden Blog Hop

Another blog hop from the creative mind of Madame Samm of Sew We Quilt and cheerleader Christine from Quilt Monster in My Closet.

Dresden Plate blocks can have pointed tips, rounded scalloped tips or be straight. I made pointed and straight ones.

From the Red, White & blue blog hop. I made this Dresden Plate block.

I just finished the above block by making it into this mug rug.

This is actually a variation of the Dresden Plate which is called Grandmother's Fan. It's a quarter of a Dresden Plate. I arranged this quilt in the Mohawk Trail setting. This is an old quilt I made before I was married when I was in college. I had an art class and we needed to make a final project that we had all school year to work on so it had to be something that took time to complete. I chose to make a quilt. It was made all by hand. I traced around each wedge using a cardboard template that I made. The rotary cutter and ruler had not even been invented yet! I made each block and quilted it and then put them all together, so it was a quilt-as-you-go quilt. I took this quilt with me everywhere to work on it in order to get it done by the end of the semester. I wish I had a photo of when I first made this quilt. This photo was taken last year.

Christmas tree skirt I made for my daughter. It's a Dresden Plate with a large hole in the center.

I made this Dresden Plate block for the 2011 Sisters Quilt Block Challenge. The challenge was we were all given 5 fabrics and had to make one quilt block. We could embellish any way that we wanted to. I didn't win, but this block was won by one of the 5 winners and became part of the quilt they made.

I used rick-rack, a yo-yo with beads and embroidery stitches sewn by hand.

Close-up of beads.

Close-up of center with yo-yo.

Another close-up

I designed and made this Dresden Turtle just for this blog hop.

I added a head, legs and tail to make the turtle and embroidered in blanket stitch by hand.

Center swirl of Dresden Turtle. Embroidered by hand.

I made this Dresden Plate pillow using several fabrics that were leftover from making the Twister quilt I made for my husband out of reproduction Civil War fabrics. I hand quilted the top of the pillow.