Friday, June 10, 2011

Dresden Plates


I'm between quilting projects - tidying up the quilt room, doing some smaller projects and getting ready for the next big one.

I found these blocks years ago at an antique store in, I think, Wyoming.  I think they deserve to be made into something nice and will be going into my next project.  I've been mentally putting it together for years.


This is a style of blocks I would never make myself.  I'm more into straight lines.  The blocks seem to be huge.  There are 17 sections in each block.  That doesn't make any sense.  Why divide a circle into 17 sections?  But it may explain why the blocks don't lay flat.  I have a plan for dealing with that.





Look at these great fabrics!  I'm sure they lived long useful lives until scraps were cut up for a quilt.  Can you imagine the stories they could tell?

Hopefully there will be at least one more story to tell.

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