Fussy Cuts Forward and Backward

Our wedding gift to Mike and Lili was a Dresden Plate quilt called Fussy Cuts Forward and Backward.

This quilt was made in 2008 and finished in 2009 and was given for their wedding on May 31, 2009. I scanned the graphic from their wedding invitation and printed it on muslin to include on the quilt label.

 

 

 This was an interesting quilt to make as each piece was cut individually at the same place on the fabric to form the pattern on the Dresden Plate. It was the second in a series. The name for this once came from the fact that to reduce wasting fabric, I cut one wedge right side up and the next upside down. The flowers on one Dresden block are right side up and the next upside down.

There are only certain fabric patterns that work well to do this. I just happened to have a couple of them in my stash. For the center of the plate, I machine embroidered flowers on gold fabric and appliqued them on to the Dresden Plate. The quilt was machine pieced and hand quilted. It is queen size.