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Monday 16 January 2012

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!

8 comments:

Cheryl (Grandma Coco) said...

Definitely treasure!!

HollyM said...

They are sweet! I like the colors too. What a lucky win.

Heather A said...

These are deadly cute! I'm newish to quilting so, if you were so inclined, I would love a few more details on how you made these.

Sheila said...

Great use for those fabrics , the dresdans are so pretty!

Deb said...

Treasure for sure!

In stitches and seams said...

wonderful job on the dresdens...one persons scraps......

Peggy said...

Hmmm....I kind of like the string of banners! What a great gift!

Katherine said...

Brilliant idea! I love Dresdens too. Wow... think of all the time you saved not having to cut these blades. Truly trash to treasure. ;o) (I say this tongue in cheek, because I have the hardest time trashing ANY fabric...lol)

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