CQG Dresden Days: Day 1

This month, and honestly, for the next couple months since we're lucky to meet 5 hours a month, my local quilting group is working on a Dresden Plate quilt. 

After picking fabric and cutting over 300 blades, last night was our first chance to sit down and work on piecing. Following a very simplified tutorial based on the amazing and picture heavy tutorial by Amy Gibson at StitcheryDickeryDock, the four of us who braved the ice were able to make five Dresden Plates in about two hours. Four of the five are completely appliqued to our background fabrics, and the fifth is partly done. 

Considering we previously had little to no experience with Dresden Plates or applique, I think that's great progress. 

Only about ten more blocks to go. The goal is to sash our 15 blocks into a twin size quilt. That part should be fairly easy. Quilting it all -- including some kind of pattern on the petals of each plate -- on domestic machines will be the challenging part... but we'll face that bridge when we get there!