Island Batik Ambassador's Dresden Plate Blog Hop

This month the Island Batik Ambassadors were challenged to create Dresden Plate quilts.  I have always loved Dresden Plate quilts and I knew I wanted to make something a little different than a traditional setting.  For this project I received the Tropical Bliss collection by Kathy Engle for Megan Best of Bestquilter.  I also pulled out my Dresden Plate die from Accuquilt!

When designing this quilt I knew I wanted to have a planned fabric grouping in each of the fans instead of random.  With all the gorgeous creams and teals in the collection I knew it would be fun to use them in different fans throughout the quilt.  Then I had to decide what else to do.  I decided to use this gorgeous burgundy as the background and when I looked at what I had remaining there were two busy prints that combined all the colors.  I decided to make them into nine patches to tie the quilt all together.

Look at these gorgeous fabrics.  Aren't the turtles fun?  Working with them made me feel like I was on a tropical vacation when I was ironing fabric with my Oliso iron.  I pieced the quilt with my favorite Aurifil 50 weight thread and Schmetz Microtex Needles of course.  I then layered it with my favorite Hobbs 80/20 batting.  

As I was quilting my quilt I decided I wanted to use the lighter pink squares to do some quilting that showed in turquoise.  I mimicked the Dresden shape in the quilting.  I'm happy with how this little detail turned out.  You can also see the feathers in the burgundy background that I quilted in all of the background.

I wanted to quilt minimally in the fans themselves, so I did wavy lines coming from the center of the fan going out on each teal point.  I like how it looks like it's exploding from the middle.

Island Batik is offering a giveaway this week for the blog hop!  Here is the Rafflecopter link.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

This week the prizes are Shadow Blooms and Peach Blossom!

Here's where you can get this gorgeous collection.

Creekside Quilts-OR

Fabric and Quilting Delights-HI

Fabric Square-OH

JellyRollFabric.Net

Middlebury Sew & Vac

My Favorite Quilt Store-TX

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

Check out all the other wonderful Dresden Plate quilts my fellow Ambassadors have made!

November 4:

• Maryellen McAuliffe, Mary Mack Made Mine
• Lisa Pickering, Lisa’s Quilting Passion

November 5:

• Pamela Boatright, PamelaQuilts
• Connie Kresin Campbell, Freemotion by the River

November 6:

• Mania Hatzioannidi, Mania for Quilts
• Gail Sheppard, Quilting Gail

November 7:

• Megan Best, BestQuilter
• Connie Kauffman, Kauffman Designs

November 8:

Blog Hop Round-Up Week 1 and Giveaway

WEEK 2

November 12:

• Lana Russel, Lana Quilts
• Julia Schweri, Inflorescence Designs

November 13:

• Brenda Alburl, Songbird Designs
• Denise Looney, Quiltery

November 14:

• Jane Hauprich, Stitch by Stitch Custom Quilting
• Jennifer Thomas, Curlicue Creations

November 15:

Blog Hop Round-Up Week 2 and Giveaway

WEEK 3

November 18:

• Preeti Harris, Sew Preeti Quilts
• Susan Deshensky, Lady Blue Quilt Studio

November 19:

• Renee Atkinson, Pink Tulip Quilting
• Brittany Fisher, Bobbin with Brittany

November 20:

• Leah Malasky, Quilted Delights
• Suzy Webster, Websterquilt
• Sarah Pitcher, Pitcher’s Boutique LLC

November 21:

• Carol Stanek, Stitch With Color
• Emily Leachman, The Darling Dogwood

November 22:

Blog Hop Round-Up Week 3 and Final Giveaway

WEEK 4

November 25:

• Sandra Starley, Textile Time Travels
• Victoria Johnson, Forever Quilting For You

November 26:

End of Blog Hop + Final Round Up