Here it is, my latest start! I have to fess up, I love to start new projects and try new techniques! I stick to my creed "I'm not dead yet!", and so I will start more projects with no thought of the ones I have not yet finished!
So here it is, project #412, my favorite number for exaggeration (although at this rate, I may have have to pick a higher one)! Here is the new block I have just made, a Dresden Plate. I have always wanted to make this block, it is one of the first patterns to draw my attention as a young person. I say young person as I don't know when my mania for quilting began, I might well have been a teen or even a pre-teen at the time? (The womb perhaps?)
This project was inspired when I was innocently wandering through blogs of fellow quilters or some group or other on Yahoo, in any case the point is, I was innocent.
One of those clever people told me of a video on YouTube, a tutorial on a Dresden Plates by Missouri Star Quilt Co.. After watching the video (actually, truth be told, 20 seconds in) I was sold on the technique and was off to my local quilt shop to get the new tool with which I would begin my new project. Yippee!! I am inspired! Unfortunately, Roxy did not have the ruler in the store, but she was placing an order as we spoke and she would be glad to order one for me! Good ole' Roxy, I can always count on her to supply my addiction!
Ahhh, anticipation.....
A few days later I got the email I had been waiting for, your ruler is in! Yayyyyy! Off to the quilt shop I go! With a new ruler and inspiration I start cutting out blades. I have decided that this quilt will be one of the many I make from my large box of scraps and fabric on hand. The plate blades themselves will be from scraps only, the center from fabric on hand (oh please don't let me need this piece of fabric for another project), and the background also a fabric on hand. I figure I can make at least 5 or 6 quilts from just scraps and dozens of quilts from my stash, but that is a story for another day.
After making a bunch of blades I confidently sew my first plate. It is wonderful, but something is off? I see that I have not been careful in selecting fabrics, I have cut up anything that fell under my blade and my block is looking, for lack of a better term,Off! I have used fabrics with too much contrast and my plate looks just, wrong. So I dismantle nearly the whole plate and decide, as I should have in the first place to use only mediums and darks with a cream background with pink flowers. The center are made with a black and gold grid, a fabric that I hope I didn't buy for another project and Viole`. I reassemble the plate to find that I am smitten!
What is the power those bits of fabric have over me, in all those wonderful colors, with all those wonderful patterns. I am smitten, powerless. I am Innocent, really I am. Have a wonderful day, I know I will.
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