This Is How It Evolved

Although I have plenty of other projects in progress...

I was compelled to pull out some fabrics and just

play. 

 This is my experiment with making a fat Dresden.

I started at the 4" mark of the ruler so the bottom was the 4" and the top of the blade is 

7 1/2". The result is a block that is huge!
I am going to need to set it on a 20" background!

I found the perfect template...

my Fiestaware plate, turned upside down, to make the center circle.

That's a 12" plate. 

The blocks are fun... I believe I have enough blades to make 13 blocks.

It's going to be a pretty big quilt. 

 This is where I auditioned the fabric for the center of the Dresden.

The more polka dots the better!

And this is where it all started. 

I had previously cut out the blades and then sewed the ends of

320 blades... all in about 2 hours. 

I decided to just work with 20 blades at a time to clip, flip and press.

 I have the semi-instant gratification of one block

I also have been able to work on my Scottie dog quilt...

(I thought it was me, but it was the photo that is blurry, sorry)

I decided that we needed more dogs with bows. The

pattern only had one girl dog. I was originally going to add ric rac and other

embellishments to the dog collars like the pattern suggested... but I have a feeling that

this is a quilt that the soon to arrive grand child will be using...

so  the bows can replace the other embellishments.

I hope to get these rows sewn together tonight!