Time to dig through your scraps!

This is a great project for making a dent in your stash and learning how to use scraps to make beautiful projects.  In this class Lynne will be taking you step by step through the process of making an outsized Scrappy Checkerboard Dresden.  You have the option of just making one and having a wall hanging or making four and turning them into a beautiful quilt.  

Scrappy is Happy!

If you are making all four Dresdens, Lynne will be showing you how to quilt each of them first and then join them together.  This Quilt As You Go (QAYG) method enables you to quilt four (or more) smaller sections of a quilt with less bulk to wrestle through your machine so that the quilting process is more enjoyable.  Joining strips are then used on the front and back of the quilt to join the sections into a larger piece. 

Week 1

We will be chatting about how to choose your scraps for a scrappy project, pick out the fabrics we want to use.  We will then cut our strips for the scrappy Dresden leaves and sew those into strip sets. 

Week 2

We will be cutting our strips sets into Dresden wedges, sew them into pairs, add the section on top for the triangle at the top of each point and sew them into one (or four!) circles.

Week 3

We will now appliqué the Dresden plate(s) to the background pieces and add the appliqué circle or circles using the foil and cardboard method or the raw edge applique method.   

Week 4

Time to quilt the whole block or blocks – since these are only 35” square, you can have fun experimenting with your quilting and maybe trying something you haven’t tried before.  And we will then work through the process of joining the four blocks using the Quilt As You Go (QAYG) process.  Even if you don’t use the process on this quilt, you may find it useful for future projects.