Double-Pointed Dresden Plate

Calling this appliqué is probably correct, but it may be stretching the term a bit, too. Still, the plates were appliquéd onto the pieced background, so the term does fit. This was a pattern created by Susan Cleveland, and I really liked the double points on the plates’ wedges, made easy to do with Susan’s Prairie Pointer tool. The background is made from pieces of linen I’d purchased at a Houston show, and the wedges are bright batiks I had in my stash. I quilted straight lines in the background, dividing the quilt roughly into quarters and doing two of the quarters with horizontal lines and two with vertical lines. I added a few leftover plate wedges to the embroidered label on the back and used the narrow corded piping I like so much next to the binding. I finished the quilt in May, 2015, and it measures 26.5″ x 24″.

Double-Pointed Dresden Quilt

Double-Pointed Dresden detail

 

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