The Dresden plate

The Dresden plate block is a beauty.  Creating this quilt was a great challenge - piecing and appliquéing - lots of corners to sew around.  The appliquéing was done with the blanket stitch by machine, but the edges were turned with a 1/4 inch seam allowance.  Unless my appliqué is a wall hanging I prefer to turn the edges to avoid raveling with the wear and washing of quilts.
Quilting it was a challenge too.  Feeling more confident to try different designs on my long arm quilting machine I decided to quilt a separate design in the borders of the Dresden plates and the outside border. I watched a Utube with Angela Walters demonstrating how to quilt a continuous leaf design - this worked good for me to apply to the borders.  I am very pleased with the final result and will use this design in the future and I've just completed UFO number 11.

Dresden plate block