Island Batik Dresden Blog Hop

Welcome to day three, week three of the Island Batik Ambassador Dresden Plate Blog Hop.

This month Island Batik Ambassadors are showing off their take on the classic Dresden Plate Block done up in the new Island Batik Fabric lines coming out now.

 

I got to play with Topical Bliss, a signature collection by Kathy Engle for Megan Best of Bestquilter.

You can visit these stores to get your hands on some of these fabrics.

Creekside Quilts-OR

Fabric and Quilting Delights-HI

Fabric Square-OH

JellyRollFabric.Net

Middlebury Sew & Vac

My Favorite Quilt Store-TX

I am loving this colorway! And it has sea turtles on it! A win-win for me.

I was given a half yard of each print to play with and had a good time rearranging and selecting prints for each unit in the quilt.  At first, I was going to do tradition circle Dresden plates, but after playing around with the layout I came up with the idea to separate my plates with some sashing. I love a good sashing!

I used Kay Buckley's perfect circle makers, along with my Oliso Iron to make the circles for all the cornerstone blocks.

They turned out so pretty!

I hand stitched all the circles down.

There are twenty five of them. 

I enjoy hand stitching, but after doing these 25 circles I knew I would not have time to hand stitch all the Dresdens, so I decided to machine stitched those down with a blanket stitch.

The sashing is made from two triangle in a square blocks.  This is one of my favorite quilt units.  It makes so many versatile designs.

I chain pieced all my plates and turned them with a small crochet hook to get nice points.

I used a 30 degree ruler to get 12 plates per Dresden and added an extra burst of fabric between each seam for a fun starburst and 3D effect.

I am falling in love with the Hobbs Cotton Wool Blend batting. It's so soft and fluffy and quilts up beautifully.

It was a pretty day down by the river for a photo shoot.

Splitting the Dresden plates into groups of three gave me six inch blocks.

 The cornerstones and sashing are three inch blocks.

With the borders, the quilt measures 54 inch square.

The piecing and quilting were done with a Schmetz 90/14 universal needle.  

The needle went through the thicker areas with no problem.

I did some simple custom quilting on this one.

The white background had an all over meander.

all the triangles and Dresden plates got their own little swirl along with the inner borders..

I stitched in the ditch around the cornerstones and left the inside of them open.

The back is made up of left over Island Batik foundation fabrics I had from other projects.

I hope you enjoyed my take on the classic Dresden Plate Block.  

For a closer look check out my YouTube Video:

Be sure to check out my fellow Ambassadors today to see what Dresden Plate pattern they came up with for this same fabric line.

Suzy Webster, Websterquilt

Sarah Pitcher, Pitcher’s Boutique LLC

Island Batik is having a giveaway,  you can enter using the Rafflecopter below.

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This week's prizes are a fat quarter pack of Shadow Blooms and Peach Blossom.

Happy Stitching!

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