Today's projects are a set of three vintage Dresden Plate squares that I've finish with wool flowers and free motion quilting.
Years ago I found a large group of vintage dresden plate blocks. Although they washed up nicely the quality of the stitching was prohibitive to make them into a quilt. However, it's been interesting finding various ways to use them in smaller art projects.
First I quilted the blocks. Quilting is all quite tiny and I experimented with various designs especially on each part of the dresden plate.
To these blocks I added three different wool flowers. The flowers were freehand cut out and attached with thread painting.
Finally I added free motion quilting and wording to make them pop.
Finished pieces 14 3/4" X 15 3/4"
Muslin Backing.
Wool and wool roving for flowers.
Quilting done on my domestic sewing machine.
Unfortunately the maker of the vintage dresden plate blocks is unknown.
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