After much procrastination, I am finally committing to this new old project. We are very close to my husband's grandparents. About a year ago, grandma asked me to repair a quilt that her mother had made many years ago. It is a beautiful dresden plate of which I neglected to take a full picture...
Sixteen blocks sashed in solid blue. You get the gist.
When it come into my life, there were a number of issues. I don't think I really knew what I was getting myself into. Not because it is so difficult that I can't handle it, but because it needed more love than I initially thought. I got it all taken apart and repaired the appliqué and then panicked. They sat like this for a really long time.
All of the squares were different sizes and not one of them was actually a square. There was up to three-quarters of an inch variation in them. The first thing I had to do was find the center of each plate and mark it.
I also bought a new large Omnigrid and marked off a 13 inch square.
Once I had my grid taped, I could use my center mark on the dresden plate and the marks on my grid to get the squares cut correctly.
You can see how uneven the sides were when I went to cut them.
More later!
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