Dresden Challenge Entry

Encouraging Words of the Day:

You thrill me, Lord, with all you have done for me! I sing for joy because of what you have done. ~ Psalm 92:4, NLT

I finally finished my quilt for the Salt Lake Modern Quilt Guild’s Dresden Challenge. And yes, I had all sorts of time to do since I heard about it in May or so but I had all the time in the world.  After all, September was a long way off.  Well, I finished my quilt today and I’m calling it the “Dresden of a 100 Hundred Errors.”  I’m not a strong proponent of perfect and you’ll see that as we go along.  I say that only God is perfect and the rest of us….

This first part is not an error.  My Mother loves soap operas and began cutting out the Dresden Plate pieces as she watched her soap operas.  Well, Mama got carried away and cut and cut and cut.  I do have the “Easy Dresden Ruler” but she prefers her cardboard template. 

Anyway, Mama made a Dresden Plate Quilt, I made a Dresden Plate Quilt last year, my sister started a Dresden Plate Quilt, and there were still pieces left over.  So I decided to enter the “Dresden Challenge” and continue using the pieces Mama cut out.  This quilt has 20 plates, most having 20 pieces and the center.  That’s one of the errors, 2 plates have 21 pieces and the center (I don’t know.)  By the way, there are still pieces left over.

I cut out my white squares (too small) so I decided to go with it since I was running out of time.  I appliquéd my plates overlapping the white squares.  It looks pretty good.  There are a few puckers here and there to add character.  I like the traditional quilt patterns so I went with the plain Dresden Plate, although my sister says that overlapping the white square is not really traditional.

After all the disclaimers, here it is.

You can't really see much difference from the blocks with 20 or 21, right?

That is all.