Dresden quilts ideas

Tips and ideas for sewing beautiful Dresden quilt blocks. Also included are two videos with step by step instructions for these blocks.

How to Make a Dresden Plate Quilt Block. Free Sewing Tutorial and Pattern

Photos above © Jessica Gamez What a beautiful quilting pattern! Dresden Bloom Quilting & designed by Jordan Fabrics. This quilting pattern/tutorial is available for free... Full Post: Dresden Bloom

This is Linda’s Dresden Plate quilt and it is made with reproduction fabrics. This will be a wedding gift for her granddaughter who loves vintage things so this will be the perfect gift! Linda’s friend Nadine made the blocks and machine appliqued the Dresden plates. She gave them to Linda and then she pieced the blocks together and then gave it to me to quilt, so it has been a real team effort! She asked for traditional quilting which is exactly what this quilt needed. Since the border was…

Well here it is, my last finish of the year, my Dresden Plate quilt! The fabrics are a cute winter collection called JOL by Moda and the sashing is brown Essex Linen. All the information about how I made and appliqued the blocks can be found in this earlier post here. I wanted the quilting to be traditional so did feathers ( because I love feathers) on the outer border and in the horizontal sashing. I wasn’t sure what to do in the vertical sashing and my friend Desley suggested the Egg and…

Finally a friday finish to share: my pushing up daisies is 67" by 85" partly quilted by hand (the background) and partly by machine (the daisies) started a year ago, inspired by Kathy Doughty's quilt garden party from her book making quilts. My aim was to use the growing pile of scraps and bigger left over pieces of blue and green. I also finally got a chance to play with the dresden block. The process has taken some time, including a bit of considering how to proceed. The background came…

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Hello Sew Cute-ers! I’ve had a wonderful week of getting to know my new sewing machine! Oh I am so in love! Having a needle down function, and a thread cutter, and a knee lift… *swoon* I’m yet to decide on a name, but I’m thinking it’s a she… A She-Beast, that’s for sure! She’s […]

I've started a new quilt! AGAIN! BUT, this time I finished a quilt before I began a new one so I feel okay about it. This is the start of my Civil War Fabrics Quilt. I am SLOWLY collecting some very pretty civil war and 1800's repro fabrics. I'm not sure how I'll be putting this together just yet. I have two options... I might make 16" blocks with this plate in the center and then just do a straight setting OR I might use this as the medallion center and work lots of different blocks around…

A Dresden plate is not your typical quilt block, but it doesn't mean they are hard! Continue reading for an easy tutorial to make your own.