Grammie Q's: quilt monster in my closet

Monday, January 28, 2013

Not Only Did I Dare to Dresden...

...I took tons of pictures. I hope you don't mind. I started with jelly roll strips of red, white and pink polka dots.

I loved the way they went together when I was chain piecing them. So cool...

More fun...

Then I started playing with arrangements...

This is the one I finally went with. It seemed to me to be the best for this application.

And before I even finished the project I had in mind for these, inspiration struck again, so I quickly jumped on it before the idea could be lost. I still had a bit over a quarter yard of my Ombre Dots!

Sew I fussy cut them to come up with this arrangement. I used almost every scrap in this, but I love it.

I put a dark green Kona circle in the middle, and then I stitched in the ditch up and down the fan blades with my machine.

And I did accent stitching with Perle Cotton. I was thinking maybe pillow, but once I did the accent stitching, I wanted more.

So I think I am going to make more of these and make them into a quilt, because I just can't stop at one. Now about that first Dresden...this is what happened to it:

I wanted to make a pouch, but I sort of forgot that it would have a flat bottom. I forgot to compensate for that...

So a lot of it ended up on the bottom. At first I was bummed, because it didn't turn out like I had pictured it, but it is sort of cute after all...

I used Anna at Noodlehead's wide mouthed pouch tutorial. I love the way those turn out every time!
Could I stop now? NO! I had to make more...

I wanted to see how small I could go...these fan blades are 2 1/2 inches, but the circle in the center is still too big. They are Sunkissed by Sweetwater and the center is the new Noteworthy line by Sweetwater. I realized I needed to make the narrow end even narrower to get a smaller center.

This one became my new mug rug for my desk and I love it. More stitching around the outside with Perle Cotton. But I still wanted a smaller one...

This is more Sunkissed, I am almost out of it now.

I adjusted the size once again to make it smaller still. The small Ackfeld hanger is 5 inches wide. Want a little perspective? Here you go...

That's what I wanted to achieve! I love this little cutie! And now, my tale of Dresdens is done. Thanks to Madame Samm and Christine at Quilt monster in my closet. Another fabulous hop and I learned so much and I thought I didn't really like making Dresdens. Who knew? Here is the rest of the schedule for today. Enjoy the hop.

January 28^th, 2013

A Reformed Heath'n

Meadowbrook

Rosemary B @ “that Other Blog”

Stitch Duchess' Crazy & Sane Quilting World

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Quilting Lodge

The Tilted Quilt