How to Quilt a Basic Dresden Plate
Today we are quilting our last block for the Machine Quilting Block Party and wrapping up a fun year of quilting along together as we stitch more feathers, spirals, and ruler foot quilting. It’s the perfect way to finish up our beautiful Basic Dresden Plate block!
Click Here to find the quilt pattern for block 11 and12. Yes, we combined the last two blocks into one pattern so you can finish your Flower Festival quilt this year!
What are we doing next year, you ask? Click Here to check out the schedule for the 2018 Machine Quilting Party.
This year has been a wonderful adventure piecing and quilting twelve flower quilt blocks. The six Dresden Plate blocks are a beautiful counterpoint to the traditionally pieced blocks and I hope you learned a lot about piecing and applique this year.
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Of course, my favorite part about any quilt is the quilting. This year I included free motion feathers in every block, plus the extra sashing rectangles. It was so nice to have an excuse to play with feathers and find creative ways to slip them into every block.
I also enjoyed digging into three forms of machine quilting. Each month I stitched in the ditch with walking foot quilting, then quilted most of the designs with free motion quilting.
And we really stitched it up a notch with ruler foot quilting! I definitely want to learn more about this easy form of machine quilting and using different rulers as a guide. Just in case you’re just trying out rulers for the first time, Click Here to find my video on Ruler Foot Quilting Basics.
When quilting with rulers, I used the templates from the Dresden Plate Template set on my home machine. These small templates fit perfectly in your hand and are easy to guide even on a small home machine. The best part is you can also use these templates for cutting six different styles of Dresden Plate quilt blocks.
This year has been a great adventure in machine quilting and I hope you’ll join us for next year’s Machine Quilting Party! We’re going to explore walking foot quilting and create three beautiful quilts from start to finish. Click Here to find the schedule and materials list.
Now that all of your blocks are pieced and quilted, you’re probably wondering how to start putting them together to make your quilt! Here’s a series of tutorials I’ve shared on connecting quilted pieces:
And just in case you’d like to see last year’s video, click here to find it.
Let’s go quilt,
Leah Day
