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Dresden Plate Quilt

Posted on June 9, 2009June 9, 2009 by Martha

This quilt was started in 2004 when I purchased 15 vintage Dresden Plate blocks on ebay. A few of the blades needed to be replaced, and I exchanged the yellow centers for pink ones. The additional 5 plates were made up from some of my vintage scraps and the blades for the ice cream cone border were purchased on ebay the following year. Although I think it would be great fun to find the quilt pieces I need at estate sales, I doubt I would have much luck. Ebay has been a great resource for vintage quilt pieces and scraps (my favorite) or old blocks and tops that I can cut up and reuse. I’d rather spend my time sewing than searching for vintage fabric. It’s gotten awfully expensive, though, so I’m glad I have a pretty big collection.

Every step on this quilt was done by hand and it took a long time, but I loved working on it — especially the quilting. I copied the quilting pattern from a photograph of a Dresden Plate quilt in McCall’s Vintage Quilts magazine.

Dresden Plate
Martha Dellasega Gray, 2007
hand pieced & appliqued, hand quilted
70″ x 85″

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7 thoughts on “Dresden Plate Quilt”

  1. Jan says:
    June 9, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    Martha, this is a beautiful quilt! I so envy your talent in putting together pieces to make such a work of art. I have some Dresdon ‘plates’ that I got at an auction 4 or 5 years ago, they are beautiful and I take them out and admire them from time to time, but I don’t have the skill (yet) to put them together into a quilt that would be ‘worthy’. When I retire (hopefully in the next few years) one of my goals is to find a quilt guild to help me become a ‘real’ quilter!

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  2. Janet says:
    June 9, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    It’s a stunning quilt and the hand quilting is stupendous. I love everything about it.

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  3. kathie says:
    June 10, 2009 at 2:21 am

    oh my another stunning quilt I am in awe of your work
    the hand quilting is just incredible
    I am so impressed!
    I need to make a dresden plate quilt RIGHT NOW!!!!!
    and of course I will send it to you to hand quilt for me!
    Kathie

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  4. Bunny says:
    June 14, 2009 at 9:04 am

    Another gorgeous quilt. You’re right, vintage fabrics have gone up in price. It can get to be an expensive hobby!

    xoxo

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  5. Patty says:
    June 29, 2009 at 12:49 am

    Wow!!! Like everybody else said, this is stunning, gorgeous and beautiful. You do incredible work, Martha! I don’t know if I will ever make a quilt but I’ll just drool all over yours for now. 🙂

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  6. Ann Champion says:
    July 25, 2009 at 3:45 pm

    Your Dresden Plate is stunning! I love the way you quilted it, especially. I have one I’ve been working on too…from vintage fabrics. It got set aside for now, while I’m waiting on repairs to my machine. Yours is just fabulous!

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  7. Sarah says:
    October 26, 2015 at 12:41 pm

    Oh my, this is breathtakingly beautiful. Your quilting is just lovely. I am inspired to replicate your quilting patterns on an unfinished half-Dresden plate that I was given from my mother-in-law on my first Christmas after getting married. It was her Ma Mas (grandmother’s) and it would be such a tribute to her if mine could even turn out half as beautiful as this.

    Yours is just startling in its perfection.

    Thank you for sharing your gorgeous work.

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