Dresden Plate Quilt Block using CHARM PACKS - Free Template in Description Box

hello everybody hello welcome to thursday july the 23rd so great to see everybody hello everybody glad i had a minute to sit and chat with everybody before the live started so great to see you hello everybody come on in and get situated i'm gonna give it just a minute before we actually jump into the good stuff right let everybody get notified that we're live give them a chance to come on in and get situated hello hello everybody so today we are making the dresden a plate block y'all this dresden plate is going to have 20 blades there are hundreds of variations of the dresden plate uh so for some of you this might be the first time you're making one and for some of you who have been quilting for a long time you may have already done the dresden plate right but yes so many different variations i encourage you to go on the googles and do a search of the dresden plate block because there's so many pretty ones out there so many different variations with numbers of blades the shapes of the blades all kinds of stuff out there it's so great to see you so uh i just drew a blank yes if you are watching this video for the very first time hello if you subscribe to my channel and hit the bell notification you'll get notified when i post new videos i love doing t-shirt quilts patchwork quilts art quilts all kinds of stuff like that and i love making journals i have playlists for all kinds of different stuff and uh yes if you hit the bell notification you'll get notified when i post a new video or when i go live if you're watching this video on the replay y'all we are starting from the very very beginning i have not done anything i've just prepared all the things that it's going to take to make this dresden block i did post a video the other day that shows you all the stuff you need to gather but you'll see that in today's video too uh and yeah if you're watching on the replay this is a live video i'm gonna put some time stamps down in the description box y'all did you know you can open up the description box and uh if the video creator has put time stamps in there they're blue and you can click on them and they bring you right to that point in the video pretty awesome right i love that feature about youtube so yeah this we're gonna start at the very beginning until the very end when we have a completed dresden plate block there is a free pattern in the description box as well if you want to jump down there and grab that it's a one page pdf i'm going to show you that here in just a second but it's in my dropbox you can jump over there and print this out uh which comes in really handy if you don't have a dresden plate ruler like me i don't have one so i'm gonna give you the template that you can cut out and use to make this block hello everybody oh it's so great to see you but yeah if you're watching on the replay and you don't want to stick through the whole chat and conversation and you want to jump around to the good stuff jump down to the description box when this video is posted i'll go through and update it and post uh stopping points that you can jump around to so i'm going to tell you i love these lives because i get to have conversation so that kind of makes the video a little bit longer but i'm good with that because i get to hang out with my quilting family all over the world y'all are all over the place so great to see you so great to see you so let me go ahead and switch the screen i'm going to show you the pdf okay cutting mat here we go all right just a heads up everything that has writing on my cutting mat is going to be mirror imaged i know that's annoying but when i'm working today i really want you to have the view that i have looking at the pieces so the words are going to be mirror imaged just so you know it's not your eyes playing tricks on you it is mirror imaged oh creative trish you made your son-in-law a t-shirt quilt that is awesome and i love that you said that it came out awesome good for you i'm so happy for you so this is the one page pdf y'all it has uh the template that we're using today i want you to go ahead and cut out your template just like this right on the line your template should measure two and a half inches wide from the left to the right and down at the bottom this little space here is one inch the blade itself is five inches tall all right so i want you to cut that out on the line just like this and then i also want you to jump down and cut out your circle right on the line just like this and put that to the side because we're going to come to this when we get to this part in the block then i want you to note there's a little diagram this is how we're going to make our blades and then how we're going to assemble our blades and then there's two boxes on this pdf the top one are all the things all the charms that we're going to use to make one block and then i did the math if you want to put together a lap size quilt and all the blocks have a dresden plate on them then this is the number of charms that you need so this is the one page pdf and it's down in the description box uh it's so great to see everybody yes all over the world france the uk wow so great to see y'all so today i am using a charm packs okay i'm using charm packs charm packs primarily most of them are five inch blocks okay this is a fabric square came in a in a stack of five and a half or five inch by five inch squares and they were all color coordinated my friend sally sent me a bunch of charm packs when we did the uh traditional quilt block series live here on youtube so many of you asked can we do a quilt block using charm squares that's one of the reasons why i'm using charm squares for this block you don't have to run out and buy charm packs for this if you have fabric and you cut your blocks five inches by five inches it's the same thing you can also cut strips of fabric that are five inches tall and cut your blades from that too so you don't have to start out this way but i'm using charms because that's what i have on hand and because so many people asked how what's a block we can do with charm squares okay so uh that's what i'm using i'm using charm squares let's see what else do you need to run and grab before we get to this part i have a thin piece of cardboard and this was actually the bottom piece of this charm pack right uh you'll need a thin piece of cardboard to cut out your center circle you can grab a cereal box and cut it from that too as well or macaroni and cheese box i like to say macaroni and cheese i love it but uh so yes you'll need to run and grab one of those uh just a thin piece of cardboard that you can easily cut okay go run and do that if you haven't gathered that yet then you need all your normal sewing notions right your rotary cutter a ruler how many packs for a lap quilt connie wants to know let's see for a lap quilt you need 400 charms and i think like 40 charms 40 or 50 come in a pack it might vary depending on who put together the charm pack right uh so yeah that's a lot of packs you'll see right behind me over my shoulder you can see i've already started putting together a quilt and i did not have 400 charms that all went together so i did a slight variation okay i did a dresden plate every other block and then a nine patch to fill in these spaces right so i did a variation which did not require 400 charms because i didn't have that many that looked good together so if you take 400 charms and you divide it by however many charms come in the packs that will give you how many packs you need right am i doing the math right but you need 400 five inch squares just like this 400 of them if you want to put a dresden plate on every single block all right y'all we're ready to jump in we're ready to jump in oh and just a side note you don't have to put together a nine patch for the base of your block that the dresden place plate sits on if you want to use a solid piece of fabric you absolutely could uh if you want to cut a solid piece for the background of your block 13 and a half or 14 and a half inches works really great so that would also reduce the number of charms you need right so if you want to save your charms for the actual dresden plates the plates themselves and use solid pieces of fabric for your background that would reduce the number of charms you need okay y'all we have a lot to do we have a lot to do so i'm going to go ahead and jump right in jump right in so for our blades let's start there i have 20 or nope sorry i have 10 5 inch squares right here this is going to be the actual plate my dresden plate i have 20. we're going to grab our template and i like using a chalk marker to mark the shape of my template onto my fabrics if you're using a light fabric you could use a pencil or a pen or a marker all of your markings are gonna go in the seam allowance and so it's okay but i like to mark my template onto my fabric and i'm gonna i'm gonna tell you why you could just place it here and start cutting right you could take your ruler and line it up right next to your blade and start cutting when i do that i accidentally cut little slivers off of my plate and if you do that over and over and over again your template gets smaller and smaller and smaller the more you do right the more you cut out so to avoid that from happening i just go ahead and mark the shape of my blades right onto my fabric okay and that just guarantees me that i'm not going to end up with smaller blades down the road because i keep shaving off shaving off my template so i want you to grab something and start marking the shape of your blade right onto your fabric and with a five inch square your blade should touch the edge at the top and the bottom that's gonna just take me a second y'all i'm doing every step with you so you can see there's the shape of my first blade and then i'm going to turn the template over and i'm going to line it up right on that line that i just drew and i'm gonna draw the next line i'm gonna get two blades out of one charm that's why we only need ten so there's my shapes for two i'm going to do that on a couple pieces of fabric and then i'll actually layer them so i'll be cutting more than one at a time just to save some time so how have y'all been how have y'all been just to let y'all know we're not gonna be alive next week we're not gonna be live next week uh we leave for indiana tomorrow and my mom's having surgery in indiana so we're going there to be with her and we actually will get home sometime next thursday so that means no live video next week that's the only stinker about us going to indiana is that i will miss you all next week connie said yep i got slivers yeah every time i would use my actual template i noticed that it got smaller and smaller and smaller and if you do it too much you know if you keep repeating that your actual fabric blade gets smaller and smaller and then you're going to have a hard time getting your dresden to lay nice and flat when you're sewing them together right because they all won't be the same size we're going to be using a quarter inch seam to sew our um our blades together quarter inch just gonna mark this one just like that would it save time to fold the charm in half and draw one it might it might but i'm going to show you what i'm going to do here in just a second and uh so you know everybody's brain works differently if you come up with a different technique that works better and faster for you by all means by all means do it that way i'm just going to show you the way that uh works best for me and i'm only really marking four pieces of fabric and then we're going to layer them and cut these out so it does go by pretty quick now if you have one of those handy dresden plate rollers the acrylic clear dresden plate rollers then you don't have to do this right i don't have one of those i need to get one thank you for praying for my mom thank you so much we're excited for her surgery we really are all right so i've marked four of my charms okay and i'm just going to layer them the most i really like to layer them is three squares high because uh after that i start losing control of my blade when i'm cutting so now i have three charms stacked one on top of the other and we're gonna start cutting we're gonna cut directly on the line that we just drew just like that so there's our first cut i'm saving all these little slivers because i have a friend connie who loves them and i'm putting them in a box for her so even though there's a little bit of waste with our charms they will not be wasted they're going to good use spinning it around i just cut the other side and now we can cut these blades apart just like this so there we go we have six blades cut out layer some more vicky it is okay my mom my mom has essential tremors it runs in our family i have essential tremors when you see my hand shaking that's what that is uh but um so she's on medication for hers and we are going to indiana because they specialize in uh deep brain stimulation and so she's going to get the total use of the right side of her body with no tremors and so we are just so excited because she'll be able to do her crafts again she loves to make cards she'll be able to she's been wanting to learn how to play the piano so she will be able to do that and uh yes we are so excited it's a good surgery it's a good surgery i probably need a new blade in my cutter i've been cutting out t-shirt quilt blocks for my next quilt i think it dulled my blade a little bit here's six more blades are you cutting off the chalk line or cutting down the center susan i'm trying to i'm trying my best to uh let's see i only have four more left to do i'll do two layers i'm trying my butt my best to get it in the center of the chalk line okay the chalk line is a little bit wider uh then if you use a pencil or like a ballpoint pen those lines are really thin and then cut directly on the line because of the chalk you know it's kind of stubby right and it doesn't give a really thin line i'm just trying to cut right down the center so just trimming trimming and cutting there's four more and we have four left so two more pieces of fabric one on top of the other and we're trimming i've been really excited about this video for for a week now all right these are our last two blades so now at this point we should have 20 blades for our dresden so there's those these little tidbits get saved in a box for miss connie and you know what we're done with this and we're done with our rotary cutter that's all we needed to use those for i'm going to give everybody a second so if you're sewing with me live you can cut out your blades okay that's also the last time you need this unless you're making several blocks right if you're going to make a whole quilt with them keep this that's your template so great to see everybody it's so great to see you just going to scroll through the comments just like just to let y'all know if you have a uh a question for me if you type it in all caps it makes it really easy so when i scroll through it catches my eye and uh y'all help me out if y'all see someone ask a question and i don't get to it because i'm trying to focus and you know the answer you can type it out that would be so helpful it's so great to see y'all it's so great to see you oh debbie says she cuts five at a time whoa see with my hand shaking so much i have better control with three layers of fabric i wish i could do five at a time but my luck i'd slip with the with the ruler the ruler would slide and i would mess up five pieces of fabric because i'd i'd mess up i have good control with three layers i wish i could do five ooh pat's done some work ahead of time i know several people have done some pre-work with this because i i actually posted the pattern last week so yeah many of you have done some work ahead of time how can i contact you regarding making a t-shirt quilt for me uh if you drop down into the description box uh i have all my contact information so probably facebook or etsy if you jump over to my etsy shop you can send me a message right through etsy i love that so if you don't do facebook go over to etsy go to my etsy shop the links down down below oh goodness and uh yeah you can just send me a message just to let you know i am booking into next march which gives you some time to get some stuff together but uh yeah it's a little bit of a weight y'all give me a second i have somebody who i need to take care of real quick and i don't see that we have any moderators so let me jump over here dun dun there we go okay there we go hopefully that took care of that for a minute the finished block size okay so the finished block size i'm putting together a nine patch and we'll get to that soon as we're done with putting together our plate the nine patch is made of five inch blocks when i put them together it actually measured 13 and a half by 13 and a half i kind of like the 14 and a half by 14 and a half inch block size so if you cut fabric for a solid piece that's what i would cut it at and that's what i put on a pdf but if you're using charms and making a nine patch like i'm going to do in this video it actually finishes at 13 and a half by 13 and a half when you sew together your quilt the block size will be 13 by 13. all right y'all did i give enough time to cut out all your blades here's what we're doing next i want you to take all your blades and you said the hardest part of this will be making my center circle small enough is there a trick to this sewing the blades together well miss amy i do have a trick to give you a finished edge to your circle so i hope you can stick around and if you have to leave come back and watch on the replay but yeah i'm going to walk you through it so hopefully that'll be helpful all right i'm just going to start separating my blades by color because i want them to be evenly distributed through my block right so i have some green ones i have some what is that like maroon maroon colored ones green black green black green i'm just going to go through and sort them out by color black black and there we go so the charms that i'm using for my blades basically consist of three basic colors and then within them there's different shades right so once you've done that i want you to think that when you put this blade together you're gonna have four sections at the end so i want you to divide your 20 blades into four sections and i'm just going to show you how i'm going to do it four blades so let's do a green one a green one a green one and a green one thank you so much valera thank you so much i'm just equally dividing these colors into four sections okay just like this this one gets a black one this one gets a black one a black one a black one a black one a black one we have an extra green one there we go each one of your four sections will have five blades i'm trying to do it so it all fits in the in the camera there we go oh that would be great yes if you could help me dazzling yes let me switch over uh and assign you moderator if if you could help that would be so terrific um and as moderator thank you so much we've had one issue oh and diane57 is here so she can help too thank you so much diane uh yeah trying to keep an eye on the chat and focus on what i'm doing all at the same time it's like i can't even right now okay can y'all see my five sections i'm just going to arrange them oh let's do it like this there we go i'm going to try to put my five sections so that no two colors are the same but if it if it happens it happens right they're all different so that's pretty evenly spread out there we go i want you to lay out groups of four and each one of your group is gonna have five blades hello miss sherry yeah i totally get i know you're working and i just want to let y'all know one of the reasons why i love doing the lives is because we all get together and we can have conversation i hope you take advantage of having the live chat and having conversation with uh other like men like-minded quilters out there take advantage of it a lot of us are going without a lot of interaction like we're used to right so now's a good time to chat with friends yes these colors are so pretty together they're so pretty at this point once you get all of this laid out i want you to jump over to your sewing machine you're going to be using a straight stitch on your sewing machine i want you to set up a quarter inch seam allowance and here's a tip when you're doing these dresden blades i want you to lower your stitch length when i turn on my machine and i have a jukie exceed hzlf600 when i set my quarter inch seam allowance by default my stitch length is at a 2.0 i know all the sewing machines are different whatever you usually use for your stitch length to piece together patchwork whatever that number is i want you to drop it by one i want your stitches a little bit closer together for working with your blades okay so i just knock mine down to 1.8 that's just one notch down hazel it is moda sally sent me some moda charm packs so knock your stitch length down one notch just a little bit shorter y'all we cut our blades out on a bias so they tend to be a little stretchy right the shorter stitch length will help it keep from being so stretchy in the end so get that all set up all right quarter inch knocked down my stitch length we're ready to do some sewing i'm going to take a sip of water and give y'all a second to finish laying out your blades and i'm trying to really take my time because i have a tendency to rush through the stages and i want you to keep up if you can i might get ahead of you a little bit i might get ahead of you a little bit but that's the beauty of doing the videos on youtube right you can always come back to the uh to the replay and pause it cheryl yes thank god no blockage that is good news oh my goodness debbie yes that's one of the beauties about working with pre-cuts right they've done all the hard work for you and color cord everything goes together and it's so pretty and you don't have to try pulling bolts of fabric and trying to match up a whole bunch of different fabrics together and then have you ever tried to pull a full cart stacked with bolts up to the cutting table at the fabric shop and hoping they don't all tumble down on your way to get it cut there's none of that with pre-cuts mimsy you just got done cutting all right i'm going to give you a second so you can lay out your blades i'm going to give you a second so you can do that you want four groups and in each one of your groups you're going to have five blades can y'all hear me okay i adjusted the microphone and made it louder so i'm hoping that that it actually that this video is actually louder than my last ones i know i'm hoping oh connie i know i i have so much to do to get ready to leave in the morning but i'm hoping i'm done by eight o'clock so i can watch her video she did so good last night y'all she went live on creative crew group and she's going to be showing quilt as you go methods she's doing two videos on creative crew group and i'm hoping that i get done by eight o'clock but if not i'll catch her on the replay oh good you can hear me good i had to go into the settings and everything to figure out how to make the microphone louder all right miss mimsy i'm gonna go ahead and start okay don't rush i don't want you to rush through but i am going to go ahead and start with the next step we have our four groups of five in each group we have five blades i want you to take the second blade and turn it right side up on the first blade we're going to be doing it oh nope nope i should have i should have watched my notes we're not ready to do that yet we did all this for nothing we're going to redo this [Music] we're going to redo this mimsy stop organizing your blades i want you to pick them all back up y'all this is why i make notes why am i not referring to my notes we're taking all blades right to the sewing machine we'll have to relay them out fortunately it doesn't take that long to do it y'all if y'all want the perfect tutorials i'm so sorry i'm going to be such a huge disappointment here's all of our 20 blades we're going straight over to the sewing machine still with a quarter inch still with a straight stitch and still with your straight stitch length lowered by one notch okay i'm sorry i need to focus we're going to come over to the sewing machine and this is what we're going to do we're going to take our blades pretty side facing up i know the lighting over here is not that great pretty sides facing up let me show you what that looks like pretty side facing up we're going to fold it in half just like this now i want you to match up that raw edge just like this we're going to be sewing the widest part not the smallest part we're going to be sewing a quarter inch along this raw edge right up here for each one of our 20 blades we're going to just fold that pretty sides together and sewing right here with a quarter inch seam allowance i'm going to chain piece mine so it's going to go pretty quickly okay quarter of an inch away from the raw edge [Laughter] and you said that's why i love you i make so many goof ups y'all but it is what it is all right let me switch back to the sewing machine here we go we're going to chain piece and fold all of our dresdens in half and sew a quarter inch seam allowance whoopsies so there's my first one i have my whole stack right here on my table you might not be able to see that i'm just bringing each one over folding it in half and sewing my seam i go through all of this stuff y'all i make notes to keep me focused and help me not mess up and then i don't even look at my notes so just chain piecing each one of them sewing along sewing along we did uh it was sort of like an exclusive zoom meeting yesterday over in the creative crew group about inkscape y'all i love inkscape that's what i use to design my patterns and plan out my t-shirt quilts that was fun just i showed some of the possibilities with inkscape how you could use it in your studio for all different kinds of crafts so you're just going to repeat this process through each one of your 20 blades y'all it is so hot it is so hot here in virginia what is the weather like where you are and i tell you i don't even want to go outside night before last we had a thunderstorm y'all i'm pretty sure something very close to our house got hit by lightning the power went on and off several times oh we're getting down to the bottom just a few more left to do so one two three this is my last one y'all so there we go there's 20 blades with a quarter inch seam up at the top oh that's so pretty that's so pretty let me switch back over so this is what it looks like when you've repeated that process for all 20 blades just like that i'm going to sit here and cut them apart yeah i'm pretty sure something very close behind us got hit by lightning once you remove this great big strand of blades from your sewing machine you're going to cut the little connecting thread between all of them just snip the thread that connects them snip snip snip i can't believe we totally skipped this part oh goodness snip snip and snip i'm gonna give y'all a second to finish sewing your blades are you near richmond yep richmond is about 35 minutes north of me not that far our little blades all different colors i saw a red white and blue dresden plate the other day it was so pretty it was all red white and blue hello miss pamela so great to see everybody so great to see you connie has me up on her big tv screen that's always funny to hear that just to let you know connie i have more little scraps i'm adding to your box more little scraps i'm almost ready to send that out too probably when we get back in a week mary your brother lives in prince george really is such a small world isn't it such a small world vicki usually has me on the big screen tv too but then she can't type yeah that's connie can't type so she sends me little messages to i get them pop up on the side so she can't type using her tv oh cheryl you're welcome you're welcome when you type them in all caps it makes it really easy for me to catch them so if you have questions type them in all caps but y'all if y'all are reading through and see someone ask a question and you know the answers go ahead and let them know what the answer is because sometimes i miss stuff y'all and i feel really bad when i go back on the replay i see that you know there's times when i miss someone's question it's so hard to keep track of everything when you're doing the video and then i feel really bad i'm like oh no i miss somebody susan i'm not sure what's happening maybe close down youtube all together and then reopen it back up and come back to the video sometimes that works to help free up the chat if you're having problems with the chat all right once you have all of your little blades cut apart they look so cute like this right i'm going to show you what i like to do and i know a lot of people don't do this but we're going to be flipping these right side out and then this is going to form a little point at the top it's going to look like a tie right to help keep a lot of bulk in the tip of my dresdens i like to go through and snip the little corner if you do this i want you to be really careful because you don't want to cut into your stitches that you just did with your quarter inch seam allowance but i just like to snip off the little corner just like this to reduce some bulk in the very tip of my blade so i'm going to try to hold that up so you can see i know it's going to be a little bit blurry because it's not focused for close-ups but it just is above that stitch line i'm going to go through and do that for each one of my 20. again you don't have to do this it's just something i like to do so i'm just going to snip that little smidgen right off of that edge right there snip snip which corner okay mimsy uh you have the open blade like this and then you have the closed edge we're cutting it off of the closed edge okay that's the corner that you're going to snip not the open but the side that's closed or folded over snip again you really you don't have to do this you don't have to but i think it just reduces a little bit of bulk right in the tip and it helps my points be nice and pretty and pokey pokey tips right snip snip and this goes by pretty quick unless you're doing 20 dresden plates and then you have what like a hundred of these to do snip and our last one snip so when you're done you just have a little pile of smidgens just like this right we're done with that i'm gonna give y'all a second to catch up i am going to bring my iron over and wake that back up because she's sleeping it's time to go to work let's get you heating heating up wake up your irons because you're going to need them here in just a few minutes we've snipped off the little corner of each one of our blades just want to thank y'all for hanging out with me on this thursday it's so great to see everybody so great to see you even if you're not making the dresden plate and you never want to make the dresden plate just hanging out with everybody is a blessing so thank you so much there she goes i heard her kick on all right warm up do your job do your job once you've snipped off the little corner you're gonna have this seam ideally i like to open up the seams on my dresden plates but that's gonna take forever okay ideally i like to open up my seam and then i stick my thumb into the little pocket inside i kind of do a finger press just like this kind of open up that seam a little bit just like that and then i'm going to flip this blade right side out just like that we're going to have the little pokey just like that and you can take a pencil or an awl something that's not going to poke through the fabric and your seam but if you need to just poke out the little bitty tip of your blade you can do that at this point isn't that pretty nice and pokey right so now we're going to go ahead and do that for each one of our dresdens i'm just going to open up that seam pinch it just a little bit flip it and poke out the little pokey tip just like that and you're just going to repeat that process all the way through now i have a confession y'all i have a confession this is a little time consuming opening up that seam right sometimes like with the blades you see on the design wall behind me sometimes i skip that part and to be really honest i don't see much difference so if you don't want to open up that seam if you just want to take it and flip it and your seam when you press your blade goes to one side or the other that is okay i don't see where it makes much difference in the final block but that's just me all you know me and quilting rolls i don't usually see a great big difference in the bulk of my blade having that seam open or having it pressed to one side when it presses right but if you're someone who loves the open seams by all means take the time to open up that seam before you flip it right side out isn't that pretty patricia says wish i knew how to put you on my tv uh i know that when i watch videos on my cell phone sometimes up in the right hand corner there's this little box and it cast videos to my tv penny come back on the replay thanks for hanging out with us before your appointment i'm glad i got to see you genie said i was lazy and didn't open the mine up yeah most of the time i don't open most of the time i don't open them but i want to show that just in case someone does want to open up those themes they can do that we're all different right we're all different just going through flipping and poking thank you penny thank you me too me too i am so excited for her y'all i am so excited pokey pokey pokey just make sure you don't poke through the very tip with your pokey tool right i don't know that it would be the end of the world if you did but try to avoid poking all the way through that seam oh barbara put me on the big screen pokey pokey pokey we have three more left to do three more two more left to do poke and this is the last one there we go all of our blades are flipped right side out and the little tips at the top center have been poked out now we're gonna go back and repeat the first part of the process that we did right i'm going to sort these out by colors so that i can equally distribute them between my four groups again we're doing this again aren't they cute at this little stage the little pokies they're so cute black black green all right here's my colors and now i'm just gonna start sorting them back through oh not yet at least not yet oh yeah no let's go ahead and do it let's do it we have to press them still but i'll press them i'll press them with them sorted how about that they do look like little houses i'm on the big screen that's so funny so each one of my four sections will have two greens and let's put the reds in there red red black black each one of your groups of four will have five blades just like this and then i want to separate the light colors so we'll swap just like that and this just kind of ensures that i equally divide up my colors throughout the dresden i don't like those two the same i'm gonna swap those just like that just like that there we go i think that looks good they do look like little houses like little townhouses diane says they look like little coffee they do now that you say that they do look like little coffins are you still warm yes you are now that i've divided them equally into four groups i'm going to go ahead and press my little pleats right we want them to be nice and flat before we start sewing them together i'm just going to move my pressing board over a little bit so you can see when we press them i'm going to lay the pretty side down and i'm going to pay attention to this middle seam on the back i want that to be right in the center so that my blade has a pretty little uniform shape right so i'm just going to make sure that that seam whether it's open or to one side to the other you want that seam to be running straight through the middle not to one side like this or to the other side like this you want that seam to be right in the middle and then you're going to press each one of your 20 blades just like that so i just take my finger and hold it down in the center and then bring my iron over and then press that just like that we're going to do that for each one of our 20 blades so nice and flat this seam is to the side it's not open not this one and when you're done it should be nice and flat and pretty from the other side so let's go ahead and do that for each one of our 20. i just hold it right down in the center with my thumb and press that i'll get the next one ready and i sort of get like a chain pressing action going on here to speed up the process put it right in the middle and give it a press just like that i might put them out of order i'll have to recheck that before i start sewing them together so there's our first five nice and flat and this is going to take a good minute bringing each one over and pressing that seam right in the middle i'll have to reorganize them i keep wanting to jump ahead jump ahead today for some reason all right let's re do the order these go in there we go yeah that's pretty we're on to this set so what is everybody working on you know what uh when i decided to do the dresden plate quilt block my intentions were not to make a whole quilt out of them but then they were so much fun preparing for the video then i went ahead and put together a quilt when i realized i didn't have quite enough to do every single block as a dresden plate but i comprom i came up with an alternative quilt layout behind me and i love it i love it it's so pretty and uh so i've been working on that i also got a jump start on my commish on my next t-shirt quilt so i've been working on that all right there's that set of five i have five more left to press ooh baby quilts again just making sure that that seam is right in the middle ooh a b quilt yay janice used poinsettia fabric and made all your blades the same i look you know what i love that too i love it when all the blades are the same fabric there's so many different things you can do with this block right so many different things you could do with it i was showing the block to my dad the other day he's like you know what you could do you could do it in yellow fabric with a brown center and it would look like a sunflower i said that would be beautiful that would be beautiful [Music] it would look just like a sunflower all right all 20 of my blades are pressed there we go i'm going to give y'all a minute because that part takes it takes a good minute to press them all and i'm working pretty fast are you going to do the t-shirt quilt as a class probably not and i'll tell you my reasoning behind it well one reason it's a collage style t-shirt quilt and i already have a couple series here on my channel that you could check out that i walk you step by step through the process but okay so we leave tomorrow for indiana for a week and then we get back the end of next week and then the week after that i might not be live that week either because i'm having two teeth cut out so i don't know you know how that's going to be but i am going to be working on that quilt so i i'm pretty sure i don't want to do a live video and i don't know if i can record it as a normal video i don't know what i'm going to sound like but i can't stop working on that quilt because it is a commissioned quilt and i have to have it done by a certain day so if i wait until i'm all good then i'll be really pushing it to get this quilt done by the time my client's coming to pick it up so that's the main reason why i'm not but yeah i do have a series all about it here on my channel that you can check out yeah two teeth cut out two more teeth cut out oh my glory that's okay so wow those dresdens are so pretty so pretty the colors i'm really trying not to rush i know mimsy's trying to keep up with me who else is sewing with me live today i know several of y'all have already done this part how many of y'all are sewing with me live and you're doing each step along with me because i don't want to rush and leave you behind how many inches wide is the work area of your long arm hmm let me go measure where's my measuring tape oh my measuring tape's over there uh let's see where's my big ruler give me a second i'll go measure it it's about 23 inches my throat space is 24 inches but then of course you know keep in mind the more you do on your quilt it rolls up on that back roller so then you have less and less area to actually quilt but uh yeah if i'm just loading a brand new quilt on there i have about 23 22 inches realistically to quilt but then the more further along on the quilt you get you have less and less but it's a good size working space kim said i got the blades cut does that count yeah that counts kim valera you're watching and you haven't gotten your fabric yet but yeah so this is like a good preliminary you'll watch through the steps and when you get it if you need to come back and watch it on the replay you can't but you'll get the idea of the process pat's at the same place as i am good okay good diana's sewing with me live today i'm just a little ahead of you well you're fast diana but i am i'm chatting susan's living vicariously through the quilting work i do that so much susan i i i watch so many other people's videos all right so i'm thinking that most of y'all are caught up and waiting for me we're going back to the sewing machine so at this point i like doing chain piecing and that's one of the reasons why i've had you divide your 20 blades into groups of four with each one of your groups containing five blades you don't have to do it this way but sewing together our blade goes by faster when i work this way so this may work for you you may love it but you might figure out a different way for sewing your blades together and that's totally fine okay so i'm going to bring you i'm going to change the screen over i want you to see both my cutting mat and my sewing machine okay when do you have time to watch other p at night we want uh harlan and i get together we have some down time in the evenings and we usually like binge watch netflix or something but if he's watching a show that i don't particularly care for i put headphones into my phone and i watch other people's videos at night or when i'm working i'll pull it i'll pull up people's videos and have them playing while i'm working because i love the background noise it's either music or someone's video all right you can see my work table here here are my four groups of five now i want you to look you have one two three four five blades i want you to go to the second one and i want you to put it pretty side facing down on your very first blade and do that for each one of your four groups just like that and y'all i am not pressing in between we're gonna go to the sewing machine back and forth back and forth we are not pressing our seams until this blade is complete a whole circle okay so you have the second blade turned pretty side down on the first blade we're gonna work like this so that i keep everything nice and organized i'm picking up the first group i'm matching up the raw edges right in that middle seam that joins them and i'm going to sew with a quarter inch seam allowance starting at the tip side all the way to the bottom when you first start sewing that seam i want you to take two stitches one two and then do a back stitch one two and then finish that seam that's going to lock that little point in place so it doesn't come unraveled okay i'm going to show you here if your dresdens are different lengths that is okay what's most important is that you match up these two points here because we're covering this down here with a circle in the end i want you to match those two pieces up just like that hold them together and we're going to sew that seam i'm going to take two stitches i'm going to backstitch and now we're going to finish that seam it's just going to lock that right in place and there we go then i'm going to come back over here and i'm going to grab my next two again we're matching these points up we want this to be nice and pretty just like that this blade is a little bit longer i don't know why that happens i don't know why that happens that's okay though that's getting covered up we want these points right here to match lock it in place and then finish that seam i am using the wrong pressing fight i'm so glad i noticed that give me a second y'all i thought it looked funny i thought it looked funny i wonder if it matters or not i hope it doesn't matter come on little thread there you go let's just double check oh yeah it's okay i started to panic for a second very good point susan yes if you start about a quart a little bit down instead of at the tip like i am then you won't have the little threads poking up at the tip good point we're bringing in our third set because i'm chain piecing i'm doing it this way and i'm chain piecing here's my fourth group of two right here i'm chain piecing because it really speeds up the process and all of my groups are going to stay in order so that i don't accidentally switch them out of order all right there's the first seam on all four groups where's my little clippy clips all right i want to keep them in order so i just removed them off the sewing machine i'm going to snip that thread and i'm going to put them back in order right on my table right underneath of my machine that's going to keep everything in order i've organized all my colors how i want them to be and i want them to stay that way so i know you can't see because of the shadow but there's one two three all in order right here this is our first set right up here i'm going to open up that dresden and i'm going to bring in the third one and we're going to do the same thing we're going to repeat that process we're going to match those up i know the lighting is horrible match them up and sew that seam now we're bringing in the second set we're gonna open that up just like that why is the lighting so bad bring in the third dresden from the second set and we're gonna attach that one we're bringing in the third set we're gonna open those dresden plates up we're bringing in the third dresden on the third set of uh groups we're gonna match up that raw edge and sew that seam and then our fourth set coming back over here we're bringing in this one matching up that raw edge and sewing that seam i'm going to take them off the machine now and separate them but still keep them in order so there's the fourth the third the second and the first so everything stays in order right i'm just going to move these right down below we're going to go to our first group and open up that third one we're bringing in the fourth blade we're going to match that seam up and just repeat the process y'all the sewing sewing sewing the second group i wanted to be able to show both my mat and my sewing machine so you could see the order in which i'm taking everything over to the sewing machine so maybe it'll make more sense you know what i'm saying we're on group number three and the group number four match up that raw edge and sew that seam now we take them off the machine and we have one more blade to add to these groups keeping them in order so nothing gets turned around here's our first group i'm going to open those up and bring in our last blade y'all if you have any questions for me give me just a minute i'm going to add the last blade in each group and then we're going to take a break our second set bringing in the last blade our third group bringing in the last blade a lot of repeating the same steps over and over with the dresden plate block but she's worth it y'all she's worth it and our last group i'm gonna bring these off of the sewing machine and bring it over to my cutting table i'm going to separate them it's one thread to cut between each one thank you so much thank you so this is where we are isn't that pretty so we should have four quarters of our dresden plate just like that aren't they so pretty we're not pressing anything yet they're gonna look a little poofy at this stage that's okay that's that's all good oh sorry i'm putting my arm in the way [Music] oh it's so great to see everybody that's so great to see everybody barbara said i like poofy i know it's so pretty right i almost hate to even press that i took a picture the other day i had it was like nine eight dresden plates before i pressed them and they were all poofy like this i love that picture they do look like turkey tails debbie i hate that i'm working ahead of you i'm so sorry work in your own time if i get way ahead of you just put it on just stop and come back on the replay i don't want you to get like stressed out trying to keep up with me we still have several stages to go to before we're done so i'm just taking a short little break just a second you are so welcome cheryl you're welcome so many options to choose for this yes yes you could do fabrics you could do baby fabrics right you could do dresden plates with baby fabrics you could do it with all florals or all polka dots or all stripes that would be fun christmas easter fabrics halloween fabrics so this is where we're at y'all here's four groups of five so guess what we're gonna do now we're going to take this group i'm going to try to make sure that these two aren't the same they're not the same i don't really mind so much if they're the same color as long as they're different fabrics i'm good with that i'm gonna flip this group of five right over on top of that group of five and then flip this one over on that group and we're gonna sew these two seams still using the same quarter inch seam allowance okay so i'm going to bring this first group over and we're going to join this this will be half of our dresden plate still starting off with a locking stitch at the very beginning still lining up those little points right there in that valley lock them in place and finish the seam and then bring over your second half sheila i want to know that too i watch live videos and i can never get it to work for me how do you all get the person's name highlighted that you were replying to is there how do y'all do that sheila wants to know i want to know i watch other people's lives and i try to do it it never works for me it never works i'm bringing over the second half we're going to sew this seam hey huh yes [Music] yo hold on one second hold on one second believing this yeah relieving news okay okay so i drove by work yes they were open yes but last night i messaged our support team and they said that they had tried to call me wow but i had checked through my phone records and i hadn't seen anything so i emailed them back i'm pretty sure they called my old phone number oh they want me to work wednesday i told them that i'd be in indiana from granny we get back thursday and that i'd be available to work friday and you shift they want okay i assume since she asked me to come in that i still still have your job and so i know you're busy that's okay that's i'm glad you told me cause i've been thinking about it i'm really relieved yes me too yay okay good good news good are you heading down to take phillip now i already took oh so you're back um i might run to dollar tree though soon from the dollar tree yeah pick up some craft stuff with some money that dad gave me a slim jim here yeah can you get five slim gems thank you oh that's such good news i'm sorry y'all i'm sorry uh let me finish this theme and then i'll update you all right so we just did that seam at this point we have two halves right two halves so uh that was bethany that's our youngest daughter bethany and bethany works at yank yankee candle the flagship stores right the great big ones that have the christmas room where it snows like every three or four minutes they make candles there and they've got ice cream and all the popcorn and stuff and uh so she was furloughed a couple months ago because you know everything shut down so she's been furloughed and out of work for a couple of months now well uh we drove by yankee candle yesterday and we noticed that they were open and she was so upset because they hadn't called her to come into work she thought she lost her job permanently but so she drove there today to ask him about it and evidently they tried to call her they called her old phone number so yay she still has her job what a blessing oh my goodness she's been upset about that all night what is a slim jim hazel a slim jim is like a meat stick it's kind of like beef jerky except it's a long stick like a beef jerky stick oh that is relieving news i'm glad she came in and told me miss connie you want me and sally to do a zoom together while we're in indiana we might do that i have to finalize some plans with miss sally she has to dream ja i know it's oh yankee candle is awesome right and they are really good to their employees too y'all they are really good to their employees all right so at this point we have two poofy halves just like this isn't that pretty so pretty we're gonna turn this right side up and we have two seams left to do to finish this plate this seam and this seam so we're going to do this one first again we're still matching up right where those tips meet in the valley section right i'm gonna bring this over to the sewing machine let's see let's do that you can see the whole thing gonna match that up raw edges together lock that seam in there and then finish that seam then i'm going to go ahead and take this right off of the sewing machine and while we are still right here i'm just gonna flip the whole thing right over and now we have the last seam for this blade right there i should have really checked out the lighting before i went live today again just matching up those two raw edges this is our last seam to construct our plate together so and there we go there we go that's a lot of sewing isn't it that's a lot of sewing let's wake the iron back up get it heating back up open up our poofy dresden plate i almost wish you could keep it like that now we're going to press it okay and you have all of the seams that's what it looks like it looks a little cray-cray right all the seams at this point we're going to press it i'm going to let my iron warm up for just a second because she goes to sleep really fast yay i'm so glad that this seems so much easier doing it this way again my process of organizing the blades you know if you're working all the same color all the same fabric your blades are all the same then you don't really have to organize them right you can just start sewing just going through making sure i'm not missing anything all right do you sew a scant quarter inch or a quarter inch uh i'm doing mine with an exact quarter inch that's what this is it's right at a quarter of an inch are you starting at the point including point trying to trying to realize exactly what you're asking miss connie when i'm sewing these together i start right at the edge okay when you do that you got these little threads i don't know if you can see that because i'm chain piecing mine when i snip them apart i've got a little thread that pokes out now if that bothers you you can just trim that off right you just trim the thread but i'm starting right at the edge of this valley see the hills and the valley you're matching them up at the valley and sewing down from there you know when someone says a scant quarter of an inch here's my quarter of an inch ruler the liner let's see yeah that's half an inch the line right in the center is exactly a quarter of an inch when someone says scant quarter of an inch they bump the needle over towards the right a notch or two to allow for the thickness of the material that you're working with and the thread because all of that eats up a little bit of space in your seam right and if you're working with some thicker fabric that might actually eat up some of your seam allowance so if you bump over the needle to the right towards the raw edge a notch or two that allows for the thickness of your fabric and you still and so all your pieces match up have you ever done a patchwork block and you used a quarter inch you know that you used a quarter an inch and all your cutting was right but the pieces still didn't match up exactly right it might have been the thickness of your thread and the thickness of your fabric eating up some of your seam allowances in your pieces all right i think my iron is nice and heated up i'm going to scoot this right over because i want you to see the whole dresden plate y'all don't mind my messy messy pressing board it's cut fuzzy bits all over this is just a flannel pillowcase everything sticks to it we're good we're going to place that dresden plate right down pretty side facing down all of our seams are up when i press this you want to be really careful because these are all sewn they're all cut on the bias see how that is stretchy a little bit you want to be careful when you're pressing your plate that you're not really pulling and tugging on your plate and giving it an odd shape it would be really easy to make it sort of like an oval right because it's stretchy you just want to make sure that you're not really messing with the shape of your blade you want a nice circle and when i press this i'm using a dry iron i'm going to be pressing all of these seams to one direction i'm not pressing them all open i'm pressing them all in one direction debbie thank you so so much that is so sweet of y'all thank you so much debbie i'm gonna go ahead and just take my hand and get these seams started in that direction i'm not really shoving the fabric i'm just sort of giving it a little bit of a memory this is the direction i want to go in with my seams i'm going to take my iron and very carefully just start working those seams all in one direction i'm slightly picking up my iron a little bit so that i'm not tugging at the shape of my plate pick it up move it around and we're just working all of those seams around in the same direction just like that you might have to pick up your plate and move it just like that y'all are so sweet y'all don't have to do that you know that right you don't have to do that i appreciate it so much i appreciate that so much see how all the seams are going all in the same direction and once i get them to where they're laying pretty much flat just like that then i'll flip it over and press from the other side and make sure everything is nice and flat nice and flat see how all of our valleys meet right there that's why we start sewing our seams right there and match those edges up when we're piecing together our blades isn't she so pretty she's so pretty all right we're just gonna scoot that out of the way for just a second so here's our plate just like that now i want you to grab one charm for your center circle and i want you to grab uh the circle from the pdf you're going to trace that onto your cardboard and you're going to cut out a cardboard circle this is what we're working with you're also going to need a needle and some thread and a pair of scissors okay i'm just using some all-purpose thread it's the ak trading company thread it's my go-to thread for piecing and quilting my knulting loves this thread for quilting and i use it for hand sewing so yeah i use it for just about everything but you just want some kind of thread that we're going to do a little bit of hand sewing it's not complicated it doesn't have to be pretty so don't get worried and you're going to need a needle do you continue the same pattern cheryl is that question for me or you having conversation with someone else i want to make sure if it's a question for me that that i can help it's a question for me do you continue the same pattern you mean the dresdens over and over and over again yes if if you want to make a dresden plate quilt you'd repeat all of these steps to make these plates and repeat these blocks over and over again for your quilt i'm hoping that that is what you're asking me sometimes i wish this was a zoom sometimes because sometimes i have a hard time knowing exactly how to answer someone's question with your center circle we're just going to lay it right in the middle of that charm just like that i'm going to take a pair of scissors and i'm going to trim the four corners just like this in a little curvy motion it doesn't have to be exact and pretty i'm just really trimming the corners just like this all four of them it's going to give us a little bit of an odd shaped circle just like that these little tidbits go in connie's pile then we're going to take some thread just a good little pinch of thread like that we're going to thread this needle we're going to tie a knot at the bottom of our thread oh good i'm so glad i answered your question right thank you miss devi y'all are so sweet thank you so much i'm going to get this needle threaded i'm going to tie a knot at the end of it i'm just wrapping it around my needle a few times and then sliding that right off the edge of my needle and pulling it down to the end of my thread what is connie's pile connie uh you don't see any of connie's comments because she's watching from her tv so she can't comment in the live chat but she sends me messages that pop up on my screen connie's a member of the creative crew group and we've gotten to know each other so well well connie loves the little tidbits all the little off cuts like this the little tidbits i save these in a pile and i send i'm going to send them to connie connie does uh all kinds of creative things with them right she makes her own fabric uh by just collaging little tidbits together and sometimes she'll put tulle over it and then some like eyelash yarn and sequins and beads and all kinds of decorative stitches so she uses all those little tidbits i have a little pile off to the side that i'm sending to her there's my little knot i know you can't see that it's gray thread it's just one single thread i'm gonna take my uh my odd shaped circle coming in starting from the inside the the non-pretty side we're gonna take the needle we're going to go in we're going to do a basting stitch all the way around the edge of this circle not really close to the edge but about a smidgen like that far away from the edge just a basting stitch i'm just going to run my needle right around the edge of the circle in and out in and out in and out all the way around this circle what this is going to do is give us a nice pretty finished edge to our center circle okay you could do a raw edge circle and stitch it down i've done that on many of the dresden plates but this technique will give you a finished edge to your circle okay so there's little stitches all the way around the edge of this circle i'm just going to repeat this all the way around till i get back to where i started all the way around in and out to the front back to the back front back front back just poking my needle in and out until i get back to the uh where i started and and out in and out you can uh do this center circle with freezer paper too if you have freezer paper and you want to manually turn the edges of your circle you could do it that way too but this is nice and fast for me and it makes such a pretty finished circle when we're done you're gonna see in and out we're almost to the beginning my stitches are about quarter of an inch length in and out some might be a little bit closer together that's okay you're not going to see them all right i'm back to where i started i'm just going to pull that thread through and open this up a little bit just like this it's going to look like a little ruffled edge right it's already starting to pull together our circle see that like a little cup i'm going to take this cardboard template if it has a shiny side like ours like mine does put the shiny side down you want it to be a paper side uh facing up i'm gonna put that shiny side of this cardboard right into that circle right into the circle you might have to work with it just a little bit there we go you want all that little ruffled edge poking up just like that and then we're going to take our needle that is still threaded with the same thread and we're going to pull on that and draw that thread up just like this a nice pretty finished edge all the way around and when we turn this around look at that perfect circle finished edge no raveling right so with it pulled up nice and tight just going to hold that thread and i'm going to take a couple of little lock stitches i'm just putting my needle through a couple little bits of that fabric right there and i'm going to tie a knot and lock that right in place just like that and that's all we need the needle and thread for so there's our perfect pretty little circle we're going to bring the iron over one more time i'm going to go ahead with the cardboard in there i'm going to go ahead and press that joyce you've made your own template and you made 10 of them that is so awesome do you cut that cardboard smaller than the template nope nope this is a four inch cardboard circle i'll show you here in just a second i'm gonna press that down on the back side and then flip it over and give it a good press it still has the cardboard in there and then i'm going to let that cool off here is my template where's my pdf here it is four inch circle on the pdf you cut that out it's still four inches trace it out on your cardboard and then cut it out it should be your cardboard template should be four inches and then once you've pressed it and let it cool off for a second because we've pressed it's going to keep the memory of our seams so now you can just reach in and grab that center circle cardboard template and pull that out of there now you can reuse that for your next one and there's our center circle i'm just going to give that one more press because we kind of ruffle it up when we pull that cardboard template out nice and pretty circle finished edge and she's perfect right she's so perfect so now we have our plate and we have our center circle made that's going to go right over top of that just like that and finish that off really nicely now if you're looking at the circle and you want yours to be a little bit smaller you could do let's see like a three inch circle you have some leeway see when i lift this up it does hang over this edge a little bit so if you want to do a smaller circle i think you could do a three inch circle if you wanted that to be smaller this is what it looks like with a four inch circle all right y'all we're gonna put that aside because now we're gonna put together a nine patch for the background i have nine charms again you could just do a solid piece of fabric if you want i'm just going to lay these out make sure no like fabrics are side by side oh let's put that one there let's play with that a little bit yeah that looks okay the only downside to using the charms when i was making my other dresden plates is that this charm gets completely covered up so if you want to conserve your charms if you want to use your charms to make this nine patch but you want to make the charms go by a little you know you want to stretch them out find some fabric that you don't like and cut a five inch piece for this center part of your nine patch because your dresden plate is gonna cover that up right you're gonna cover it completely up so find some fabric that you bought and now you're not crazy about it replace this charm with that fabric i'm going to go ahead and go with this because this is what i have right now but yeah you completely cover up that center charm at this point we're just making a nine patch okay you're gonna sew together this as a nine patch i'm gonna bring up both my cutting mat and my sewing machine i'm still using a quarter inch seam allowance i'm going to knock my stitch length back up to my normal setting though because i'm just piecing and i'm going to knock this nine patch out really fast i'm not even going to press it in between my seams okay because i want to move on to attaching the plate to this block so we're going to knock it out really fast i'm just going to bring you along with me sewing so i'm so glad bethany still has her job oh i'd hardly even slept last night worrying about it i'm so glad she loves that job so we're just sewing sewing sewing a huge machine vicki it looks really big because of the angle of my camera although it is it's a decent sized sewing machine she has like an eight inch throat space which is really nice but i think with the angle of the camera it looks a lot bigger than it is piecing together our nine patch now i'm going to leave all these connected and just go right back up to that first one and add from there open it up and bring in the next one open up the second set and bring in the next one and the last set open those up and bring that one in thank you so much vicky y'all are y'all are so nice thank you so much y'all are so sweet just to let you know if uh if you give this video a thumbs up that also helps my channel so much y'all that would help me a lot if you gave this video a thumbs up so here's my three rows they have little connecting threads i'm gonna trim those just like that ooh diane's new machine has a 12 inch throat space holy moly all right i'm not even going to press these i'm just going to do this and when i get to the seams at the sewing machine i'm going to push one in one direction and the other in the other direction so that everything lays down nice and flat when i do press it 12 inch throat space holy moly that's nice all right my bottom seam is facing me and that seam is facing that direction they'll lock right in place and then just match them up as you go down so there's those two and now we're going to add this third row right to the bottom just matching up those raw edges and those two seams [Applause] that seam goes that way and this seam goes that way all right so just like that we've sewn together our nine patch we're coming right along y'all coming right along let's get this pressed yeah my machine is a jukie and it actually came with the extension table but uh i know for a lot of other machines if it doesn't come with one you can you can order them right i'm just going to finger press these seams the way that they need to go just like that and press them y'all we are coming right along coming right along i'm gonna go ahead and press this from the other side too not bad for a quick nine patch not bad yep it's a shame that that pretty fabric right there is gonna be covered up so if you're using charms pull out your fabric that is your least favorite and use it for your center square right in that nine patch oh that's going to be so pretty so pretty so there's the three pieces that make up this block i'm going to give y'all just a minute to catch up so oh that's good water good water okay y'all you know me and my glue basting i'm gonna actually glue baste my dresden into place now you don't have to do it this way you could pin your dresden plate to your background i'm going to show you how i glue based mine in place because all that we have left to do at this point is to sew the plate to our background right so you could pin it in place and let me show you how i just eyeball this right i kind of just eyeball this see this little point here and point here i kind of line it up in the center of this block so it's kind of lined up and lined up and then i do the same exact thing with these two points kind of hitting in the middle of these side blocks right i'm just eyeballing it if you want to be really exact about it you could pull out your ruler and make sure it's exactly in the center right but i just kind of eyeball it using the little the little tips of my dresdens to eyeball it to the center and then i'm gonna break out my elmer's glue you could use elmer's school glue it's got like a chalkboard on the front this is elmer's glue all it does wash out of your fabric the first time you wash your quilt to me i just love glue basting but you don't have to do it this way pin everything in place okay with my hand now that i've found exactly where i want this plate to go in my block i'm just going to sort of anchor down half of it with my hand i'm going to flip over the other side and i'm going to add a little bit of glue in several different areas not that much lisa don't squeeze the bottle so hard several different areas around the tips of this blade just like this several little dots don't squeeze it really hard like i did the pin the glue is going to act like liquid pins right i'm adding a little bit of glue right on the seams right in the center it's going to anchor that down in place and then i'm going to flip her back down just like this little taffy tappy nice and flat i'm going to dry the glue with my iron my iron is set on a cotton setting i sometimes like to use steam because i think it dries the glue faster that's just my thoughts on it but you'll not be bringing any wet glue over to your sewing machine right we're drying the glue right now and i didn't even put any glue very close to the edges anyway so just like that now we can lift up this other side just like that and add a little bit of glue to hold this down see how i'm not even really even going right next to that edge anyway and she's gonna keep our dresden plate right in place with no pins i'm going to flip her back down tappy tappy nice and flat and then dry that side just drying the glue i do think my iron actually y'all this is a black and decker iron i got it from walmart this is the second one i've had in five years because i make quilts on commission this is my full-time job my iron is on every single day this purple iron has lasted about two and a half years i love it but you can see i don't have the steam on and she's putting off some steam i think she's getting ready to go bye bye i think she's getting ready to go kaput because i don't have the steam on but she's releasing a little bit of steam but daily use for two and a half years being on all day long at least five days a week she is a trooper and for the price you really can't beat it right all right so that should be good and dry now watch when i lift this up i can move my block all around just like this she's not coming off she's there and i don't have any pins poking my fingers when i'm sewing i'm going to go ahead and glue baste my circle right into place right now too while we're here just gonna try to eyeball the center does that look good maybe a smidgen over this way that way that way that looks good again i'm going to anchor half of it down so i don't move it and i'm putting a little bit of glue not really close to the edge so much just like this little dots and a little right in that center and dry that side and then we're going to lift up the other side and add a little bit of glue y'all we are coming right along we are almost done with this block i hope you've had fun today even if you're not making the block just chatting with everybody and now we're gonna dry that and then we're done with the glue thank you kim right isn't that so pretty i just want to thank sally for sending me these charm packs that was such a huge surprise when she did that they work so well in a dresden plate don't they they are so pretty together just making sure all that glue is nice and dry and guess what we can pick this up and the circle stays right in place and we can bring that to the sewing machine so before we do that before we bring this over to the sewing machine let's have a discussion about how you sew this down because y'all there's about a million different ways that you could do it a million different stitches that you could use the quilt that you see right over the shoulder on my design wall i stitched down each one of those dresdens with a different stitch so and you know what if you're standing away from it you don't even see it because i used a thread that sort of just blends in with all the fabrics right one thing i will say is if you want to use the same exact stitch and you're making a quilt with dresden plates whatever stitch you use write it down on a little post-it note and keep it next to your machine because i guarantee you if you go if you make some dresden plates today and then you come back next week and make some more you might forget this the exact settings that you use on your machine so write them down if you want all of your dresdens to look identically the same write down the stitches that you used the stitch width the stitch length so that you have that and you're not going to forget if you're going to take a long time to make a bunch of dresden plates right the quilt behind me i have used a zigzag stitch to sew down my dresden and my center circle i've used a blanket stitch i used a really pretty decorative stitch that has little leaves on it oh it's so pretty i used a straight stitch and just on the inside of my blade right close to the edge did a straight stitch all the way around that's what i'm going to show you today because it's the fastest right but yes you can use a variety of different stitches a satin stitch would look pretty too this is a lot of chunks of fabric to be going through there and a satin stitch is going to take a little bit longer because your stitches are so close together with a satin stitch but yes you could absolutely do it i'm gonna go with a straight stitch okay for this dresden because it is the fastest and i want to be able to finish this block with you but that doesn't mean that's what you have to pick right that doesn't mean that that's what you have to do i'm going to take this off and that's why i had this other foot on foot on is because it's all clear and i can see through it i'm going to move you over to my sewing machine we're going to bring this block right over how many dresdens are in the quilt behind you let me count them one two three four five six seven there's seven up on the wall and this one you can't see it but there's a space missing at the bottom this one makes eight and then i just did a simple nine patch in the other blocks to fill in this space so this makes eight a slight variation from the count that i gave you for a lap size quilt because i didn't have 400 to do that we're going to bring over our plate our block let me see what i want to do a straight stitch and uh let's see i'm going to bump up my stitch to a 3.0 that sounds good what are you doing with earrings on the side remind me here in a second chair i'll show those to you my daughter made them she brought them to me last night all right so we're just doing a simple straight stitch i'm going close to the edge all the way around i know you're not going to be able to see so close up and i wish i could change that actually i want to start in the valley i'm going to start in the valley and then we're just working our way around all the way around back and forth back and forth actually i like to be a little bit closer to the edge than what i'm doing but i'm kind of going a little bit faster than what i like to do i like to be a little bit closer to the edge than this back and forth just rotating the block as we get to each one of the peaks and the valleys and this part's going to take a minute you got 20 20 blades well that one was really close to the edge whoopsies usually i would slow down and really be a little bit more precise about this let's see if you get a bunch of dresden plates up to this stage and then you just turn on some music and sit here and stitch them all down then it doesn't actually seem like work it's just fun right all right back to where we started i'm gonna lock that in and then i'm gonna pick a zigzag stitch for my center circle i'm gonna change it up a little bit i'm going to set that at a 4.0 for the width and a 2.4 for the length and i'm just going to do a simple zigzag stitch to stitch the center circle in place i just realized i have not even eaten lunch today what i mean anything today about three quarters of the way done keep going till you get back where you started i go past where i started just a stitch or two back stitch and then remove that from the sewing machine and that is our finished dresden plate let me switch the camera over that's a lot of work y'all for one block right that's a lot of work she is one of those she's uh she's very needy she requires a lot of attention and details and different steps for this block but isn't she worth it she is so so pretty look how pretty she is i know i have not eaten anything i just realized i didn't even eat breakfast or nothing these are the little earrings that bethany made me last night they look like cheez-its they look like cheez-its see that isn't that so cute y'all know me and my snacks and eating snacks and stuff she made me some cheez-its because i love cheez-its little earrings i can't wait to wear them robin you are sick with covid oh my goodness we'll be praying for you is there a way we can get updates from you to see how you're doing just going to snip these little threads where i stopped and started there we go whoa she's so pretty is there a reason uh you could not do a straight stitch around this absolutely you could do on one of my blocks behind me i did a straight stitch in the circle i'm doing them all different for my quilt uh but yeah you could absolutely do a straight stitch in your circle as well i just changed it up and did a zigzag stitch piper said dresdens are so worth it they are right look how pretty that is so pretty it's so great to see everybody thank you all so much for hanging out with me this thursday so that is what they are called peaks and valleys i don't know cheryl if that's the technical name for them that's what i call them because they look like little mountains and valleys right peaks and valleys that's what i call them i don't know if that's like a technical term for them or not what is the name of the charm packs oh i had that out just see oh here yes i saved them it's two different charm packs this is gonna be mirror image i'm sorry but they're by moda and uh remembrance and icicle kisses they went together really well right i think this is different than this i combined two different kinds of charm packs to get this block like this was remembrance and this was in the icicle kisses i do believe but they kind of go together right so that i had enough to do the quilt behind me i combined them to remembrance and icicle kisses by moda ah y'all are so welcome you're so welcome it's my pleasure to show you uh y'all and i come up with ways of organizing in different steps that doesn't necessarily mean that that's what works for you right but uh i like to show how i do it in hopes that you know if you've been intimidated with a block or a technique you can see how someone else does it differently and uh yeah maybe get some tips from that taco salad oh that sounds delicious phyllis i'm so glad that this video has been helpful for you i'm so glad mimsy i'm sorry that i worked so much ahead of you thank you juliana yep we're excited we leave first thing in the morning first thing in the morning so yes the dresden she requires lots and lots of little steps and i kept wanting to do them out of order today if you just now joined in or if you're just getting here a few minutes ago and you come back on the replay i kind of skipped ahead and had to pedal back some steps but that's okay how would we quilt that miss jeannie uh so i've done i've done like i think maybe four total dresden plate quilts it was just made with dresden plates right when i quilted them uh two of them were quilted on a sit-down machine and two of them were quilted with my long arm what i do is i stitch in the ditch next to my dresden right i just stitch in the ditch all the way around and anchor that down in place and it shows up really pretty on the back side of your quilt and then i do come in and i anchor this center down too with some quilting here's something that you could do like if you wanted to wait on stitching down this center circle maybe you just have it pinned or glued basted in place and you put together your whole quilt when you bring your quilt over to quilt it then at the same time you're quilting you're stitching down your center circle with a straight stitch and just right on the inside i like to anchor that down too so then this is kind of poofy right after you're done quilting this is a little bit poofy and then you have a little bit of definition with your circle and uh so that's what i like to do and then you could do any kind of quilting in your background or you don't have to do any you could stitch in the ditch around your block right yes miss glinda you'll have to come back on the replay it's a little bit of a longer video i will be putting time stamps sometime this evening in the description box and that'll help you skip around if you want to do that can you make the dress and play just using 10 blades you could fill this but you're going to cut your blades at a different size right there's like hundreds of variations of the dresden plate uh go to google and search dresden plate with 10 blades and see what comes up there might be a template out there but uh it won't be cut exactly with these measurements it'll be like wider at the top or the bottom you know uh but yes yes i've seen dresdens with only let's see 16 blades eight blades lots and lots of variations what size are the blades the blades there's a free print off if you want to jump down to the description box i know that this is mirror image is because of my camera facing down okay but uh there's a free pdf in the description box the blade is two and a half inches tall uh wide at the top from side to side at the bottom it measures one inch exactly at the bottom and the blade itself is five inches tall okay five inches tall you can print this out it's in the description box it'll bring you over to dropbox you download it and print it out i know it's been so great to see everybody today thank you all for uh sticking with me thanks for sticking with me during the dresden plates very very traditional quilt block very very traditional again so many different variations different sizes that you could do different shapes i love some of the dresdens where they have a peak a pointy blade and then a curved blade pokey curved there's a name for that dresden and i don't recall what the name of it is y'all but it has a pokey and then curved those are so pretty those are so pretty so yeah if you uh if you do a google search on dresdens just take a look at all the different variations i'm hoping that this video here has inspired you to give it a try how do you do corners when using double fold binding sewing front and back at the same time oh okay i get it bridget i would love to know the answer to that too i think you're talking about putting binding on the edge of your quilt and you want to sew the front on at the same time as sewing the back like a double folded binding when you get to the corner i don't i don't know that there's a way to do a mitered corner if you're using a double folded binding i do have some binding tutorials it's a single folded binding you take your binding strip and you fold it in half and press it you sew it to the front first and then you flip it over to the back and sew it again i will show you how to do the corners using that kind of binding but i've never done it with a double folded binding before because of that reason i don't know how you do the corners i don't know how you do it all right everybody i'm gonna go fix someone i cannot believe i've gone all day without eating i'm surprised i'm not like hangry it's been so great hanging out with you today remember next week we will not be here live it's kind of iffy about the week after that because of some teeth extraction stuff going on but uh either way i'm going to try to post a video before that it might not be live but i'm also kind of hoping that while we're on the road maybe i can pop in too i don't know it's easier to pop in from my phone over on facebook so if you haven't ever joined me before and you do facebook go down to the description box i have a link to lisa cape and quilts facebook page and i have a link to um the creative crew group y'all uh linda's doing some videos quilt as you go if you want to learn that she's going to show you some tips over on creative crew group jeannie miss genie is hosting a zoom not tonight tomorrow i think i might have my days mixed up lots of fun stuff going over there lots of fun stuff and you can share your pictures and get help and answer ask questions all the fun stuff the links are in the description box here we go my finished dresden plate she's going to go up on the bottom she's the only block i have left to do for this quilt top i'm going to add a couple borders and call that finished if you want to see pictures when i do that join me on facebook that's where i'm putting the pictures of this quilt when i get done what's up for the next time good question susan i have not planned that far in advance yet i do have okay so before we go i do have a art quilt coming up i want to start it in august it's going to be called garden archway it's an art quilt it's gonna be about six foot tall i think and about four feet wide maybe a little bit wider it is an art quilt just to pique your interest a little bit if you haven't heard anything about that before we go if you like paint by numbers if you like uh counted cross stitch where you know the pattern is already on the fabric and it's got little markings for the different colors if you like diamond painting kind of along those lines it's going to be kind of like paint by numbers except we're using fabric paint by numbers thank you all so much for praying for my mom she's going to do great we are super excited for her surgery it cannot get here fast enough oh genie is going to do her zoom at 8 p.m eastern time i'm going to try to jump in it depends on what we're doing i just want to come and say hi yeah it's not a mystery quilt anymore nope it's not a mystery quilt all right y'all have an awesome blessed week i will update y'all soon but um i'm really active over on facebook so hopefully you can join me there thanks for following along with me today thank you for everybody who did the um the chat donations y'all are so so sweet i appreciate that so much if you like my video it helps me too thanks everybody bye you

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Length: 159min 27sec (9567 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 23 2020