Serving Plates

 Dear Readers,

This year I am on the program committee for the Jackson Quilters.  So this month we were doing the history of quilt blocks and I was going to do the Irish Chain.  About 3 weeks before the meeting, Linda, also on the committee, texted and said she wasn't going to make it as her family was coming into town and would only be there a day and she could not make it.  She was going to do the Dresden Plate.  So I said I would do hers and thought, oh my I don't have a Dresden plate quilt.  

I knew I had a stack of 8 Dresden Plates that were done by some quilter that Lauren had picked up and asked me if I wanted them, and I said yes!  So I was trying to come up with a layout for eight blocks and decided I would put each one on a different neutral and offset the center row so that it would be big enough but it would be square, so I added a 2.5 in strip on top and bottom and made the top and bottom borders a bit wider so it would be rectangular and a bit more usable for a throw.   

The backing was some fabric I bought on a whim from the sale table at Delta Threadz in Cleveland, MS.  It turned out to be just exactly the amount I needed.  I quilted it with a modern take on the Baptist Fan and bound it with some binding I had made for a different quilt, but decided it did not look good with that quilt after all.  It was a bit off with the backing but it was great with the front.  

Sew on,

Terry