On our way out of town to go to St. George for a weekend with Jamie's family, we stopped at the fabric store to buy Christmas socks for the kids. I thought a new quilt magazine would be a good thing to have to read during the trip...of course, I found a new quilt that I just had to make.
I chose this quilt because I already had a stock of batiks to use. I got them all laid out after washing, ironing and starching each one as instructed to in the pattern. I was really excited to get started on this colorful quilt.
These are a few of the dresden plates that I made. They were easy and went quickly. I appliquéd each on a black background. The next step was the border. That wasn't necessarily hard, just very time consuming and I had to really be careful that the colors would flow together.
By the time I was deeply into getting this quilt top done, my sister, Donna, asked that I would ship it up to her to display at a quilt show in Idaho Falls. That gave me an incentive to get it done.
I really had a tough time deciding how to quilt it but was so happy with the decision to do an all over meander. I was thrilled with the results!
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