One Woman's Trash is Another Woman's Treasure

I saw another quilt blogger post about cutting up fabric, changing her mind, tossing the fabric, and then feeling guilty.  She ended up posting her triangles of fabric as a giveaway.  I was chosen!  Thank you Rachel at Stitched in Color.  My first thought was to use them as scraps for postcards.  However, once I realized they were all the same size, I thought, "hey!?  why not Dresdens!?"  They just arrived, and I got to work right away folding them all in half with right side in, and chain pieced them...

always pretty in the window : )

Then I clipped them, flipped them right-side out and once they are pressed, they are all ready to go!  I really love the fabrics of some of them.  Since they are all 45 degrees, I will need eight to make a plate (8 x 45 degrees = 360 or one circle )

stitch, clip, press, flip, press, and now stitch again...

I know, that's not much of a tutorial.  But aren't they sweet!?  I plan to applique these onto a wallhanging.  Maybe I'll hang on to this for when I take my hand quilting class at the Studio on 9th.  Oooo I can't wait for that!

I heart Dresdens!