The pattern for this quilt is a traditional Dresden Plate. I made the “plates” by mostly using fabrics in my growing stash. They were machine pieced, then a circle was hand appliqued in the center of each plate. Once the plates
were completed, they were appliqued down onto a light green background. I then spent a lot of time trying to find just the right color for the sashing and that peachy color just seemed to tie everything together. You can see the
colors better in this detail picture. I wasn’t trying to match anything in my house when I made this quilt, just to match the colors in the quilt itself. This quilt is a large queen, measuring 97″ square. I hand quilted it in the ditch between each plate fabric, 1/4″ around the plate and 1/4″ inside each block, with a design in each block corner. In the sashings, I quilted a rose with feathers and mimicked the rose in the center circle of each plate and in the four patches that join the sashings.
This quilt was displayed in the 1998 Mooresville Centerpiece Quilters Guild show.
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