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Are they always made with 1930's fabric? Where did you buy the ruler to make one? Have been looking at the ones on Marti Mitchel site but she has several different ones. Unsure which one is best.

Owie - I bought some templates for this from Nancys Notions...I'd check there for your price shopping. It's on my list....I love the look of these and keep coming back to it - that and anything with circles. For some odd reason I seem to be really drawn to circles...

I just got a new catalog...here's the code for free shipping (no minimum purchase) 125424-2199 This code is good untim 12/28

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thanks.

You can make a Dresden Plate from any fabric. There are some beautiful ones made from Batiks. About the only thing I wouldn't try would be stripes. But I'll bet someone has made a gorgeous creation from stripes.

ooooooooooooooOOOOO STRIPES!!!! Never thought of stripes.... I might try it sometime Navy Wife! I have a bizzilion (well, a lot) of blue and white stripes...interspersed with plaids...oh boy...what a greta idea!!!! Cheers me up some after reading about Tipnut.

You can make your own templates too (like grandma). Just take a square piece of paper, fold in 1/2, then 1/2 again, then again.(Once more if you want a bunch of wedges) Curve the top, and a small hole at the bottom. Cut out one of the pie-shaped pieces, glue to another piece of paper and add 1/4" all around. Try a trial run Dresden Plate to check for accuracy. Draw around a small jar lid for the center and add the 1/4". When those pieces are satisfactory, I glue them to an index card and voila! A size of Dresden I like.

Saying all that, I do have the pointy tipped tool which goes much speedier. But I do love the curved edged ones....

I've got a Dresden Plate going with food fabric...plates like at a potluck. Chocolate kisses for the circle in the middle. Oh someday I'll finish it...maybe use red and white checks for the "tablecloth"?????

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EZ quilts makes a tool too. The Missouri star company sells it as well as JoAnn's (and lots of other places!). The Missouri star company has a great tutorial showing how to use the tool. http://www.missouriquiltco.com...rlene-zimmerman.html I have this tool and have made a small quilt using the technique described here.

In addition to this, I have the book Throughly Modern Dresden and the tool described in this book. This is a link showing these items:
http://softexpressions.com/software/books/4L30400.php This book shows great options and layouts and like the title implies, modern looking quilts are presented. This book/tool gives a few different options for the shape of the dresden (pointed, flattened, and rounded). The pointed shape like the easy quilt demoed above is the easiest. I have had these items a while now and they remain on my "to play with" list. This grouping is more expensive, but offers a bit more variety. The one above makes a great quilt and is very easy to use. I thought that I could adapt the EZ ruler to make some of the quilts in the Thoroughly Modern Dresden book, but I found the companion template at a good price and decided it was best to get the combination!

Bottom line: If you like the tutorial and look of the Missori star quilt and just want to play with something, it is the most economical way to go. There are more sizes on that ruler too. There are some other free patterns for it too.

The second combination gives you 3 sizes of plates. The book has great patterns and tips for using the rulers. Tops other than the pointed look require much more work and some hand sewing. JoAnn's used to have these items, but I haven't seen them now for a long time.

I love dresses and circles too! Dresdens can be made with ANY type of fabric and look great!

Thanks, the tutorials were great. I think I am ready to do one now.

There are also Dresden templates online.. I made a reversible one a few years ago..summer on one side, fall on the other, with crazy quilt embroidery on the seams. Sent it to my buddy in Arkansas.. was about 28" across. She wanted a table topper

Check out Eleanor Burns. She has a technique where she lines the Dresden Plate with muslin and then turns it right side out. You just applique the whole plate to your background and add the circle in the middle.

Quiltmaker

Look at this:

And this (found these online)

Another

Black and white

Here's one done in brights with a slightly different way to do the inside circle. sandy
http://happyquiltingmelissa.bl...ight-ez-dresden.html

http://lurlineg.blogspot.com.a...-plate-tutorial.html
this is cute

Those are all wonderful versions of the Dresden Plate. I've never been inclined to make one, but that one with the points on both ends resulting in the double Dresden look is intriguing.

Oh that Eleanor Burns method sounds fantastic!!! She's the cat's meow, isn't she!!!

Found a picture of one I made on my blog. Many of the fabrics are from clothing I made for DS, 1st DH, and myself.

This is the quilt made with fabrics leftover from sewing for 1st DH, DS, and myself. In this particular block, the red with gold was a western shirt for DS. Just below the block in the border is a segment of dark tan with white...that was a western shirt for DH. Looks like everything else is mine from clothing or doll clothes for the nieces.

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They all are so pretty. I watched the Missouri Star Quilt company tutorial. It was good.

I have to chime in on this one as I am the "queen" of Dresden plate quilts and have taught many classes on it.
Marti Michells templates are THE BEST I have ever used in the many years of trial and error and finally finding hers.
#0's fabrics are a nice choice, but I have used EVERY fabric idea there is.
With Martis templates there are 16 "blades", so you can do 16 different fabircs, 8 or 4 or 2 different fabrics. I have done Chris tmas, baby, fall, Amish solids to name a few. I particularly like taking a collection from a maker and choosing 8 different fabrics and then a center circle fabric and then a light background to put the plate on.
Let me know if you need any help, I would be very happy to help any of you!
PS...It is a very addictive pattern. Enjoy

oooh, good to know that Marti Mitchell's is the best template...thanks bunches. I plan on making MANY of these in the future (as soon as I can get out of my pinwheel phase)....

I love Marti's templates...better than any other I own...spendy but worth it to me and I am really a thrifty shopper ...some of my best friends tell me I'm cheap..unless I am bargaining for them of course...