When Pat and Jane asked me to be a part of the Splendid Sampler I immediately decided to use the Dresden wedge.
The Dresden has always been my favorite shape and so versatile!
My color palette is usually very different but when I received my fabrics I thought my little block needed to be more traditional. Once again I have completely fallen in love with hand stitching so I decided to quilt my block by hand.
Its been so exciting to watch all the creative and beautiful blocks and quilts emerge from all over the world through the Splendid Sampler project. You ladies are really amazing!
The Dresden has always been my favorite shape and so versatile!
My color palette is usually very different but when I received my fabrics I thought my little block needed to be more traditional. Once again I have completely fallen in love with hand stitching so I decided to quilt my block by hand.
Its been so exciting to watch all the creative and beautiful blocks and quilts emerge from all over the world through the Splendid Sampler project. You ladies are really amazing!
I used the EZ Quilting mini Dresden ruler by my friend Darlene Zimmerman. They are made to work with jelly rolls as well so super easy to use and cut out.
At first I played around with the shapes to decide what I wanted to do but of course the circle won out! Hence the name of the quilt block "Circle of Friendship" just seemed right.
Also got to play with my favorite iron from my friends at Oliso! I actually love raw edges so I was very tempted to leave it as is. Please don't look too closely at a few of my wonky seams.... I did take them out and redo but forgot to take a new photo! Really!!!
Aurifil sent along some beautiful thread for me to work with!
Playing with the seam allowance will give you an open circle in the middle of your plate. I like to often use that trick to make different size circles with the same size wedges. Next I just folded under the raw edges and pinned to the background strips.
My stitches are not always perfect but I'm ok with that. I find hand stitching so relaxing so I don't want to put too much pressure on myself. I's been hard to find a thimble that I really like so if any of you have a suggestion I would be so happy to hear it. You will occasionally see me with a bunch of band aids on my finger tips!
I hope you try my little block! It's super easy and so much fun!!! Come back to visit my blog so you can see what other fabrics I am going to use or look for me on Instagram under Michele Muska. Please request to follow me if you like.
So happy I could share my block with you all!
Michele
So happy I could share my block with you all!
Michele
