![]() I don’t know if you can see or not, but there are 20 points on these Dresden Plates. ![]() So, for this quilt, I decided to use one of my Riley Blake jelly rolls. I’m bad about buying jelly rolls, because I figure I can easily make something without having to cut all those strips. Problem is that I really am trying to use fabric I already have. Making a Dresden Plate quilt was on my Bucket List (the mental list of the many, many quilts I want to try before I die). When you think you’ve got them all off your quilt, just take a picture, and you will find more! Did you find any? One of the hazards of quilting is all those loose, runaway threads. Quilting adds the dimension to it.Ĭloser view of the top half of the quilt…Ĭloser view of the bottom half of the quilt… So, I ended up using a muddy batik and drawing the shell on that. I wanted the turtles to have shells, but couldn’t find fabric that would work. I ended up using a fabric marker and drawing the black on. The black would look a little weird if I appliqued it, because I wanted it to look vein-y to show the texture of the fins. There are orange bodies with black and white pieces. One of my quandaries was how to applique the clown fish. I want it to be soft the more thread I add the stiffer it will be. The trick is to NOT add too much quilting to this. So, I added that touch here in the quilting. In my haste, I also did not have enough fish swimming in between the fronds of seaweed. So, I added those items in with the quilting. Besides, the clown fish were already too big for what I was imagining. I was going to put a sea anemone on there, using yarn pieces to float upwards. In placing the applique pieces, there were things I didn’t really have room for, or had forgotten to include, or didn’t know how to incorporate it into an applique onto a toddler’s quilt. Lesson learned… thank goodness it’s for a toddler. I don’t know what possessed me to make all the fish around the same size. The clown fish really are too big, but they are colorful, and I needed that. I also wish I had made the fish different sizes. ![]() That is the reason for the random starfish elsewhere. I was trying to place all those creatures at the bottom of the sea where they “belonged” and ran out of room. With this one, I wish I had made it a little more square. ![]() I always learn something with each quilt I make. So, I took some of the seaweed away, and I wish I had taken more. You can always take some away, but I didn’t want to have to make more later. ![]() I was randomly making different appliques, trying to fill the scenery. Now, how to fill it up? Initially I had too many fronds of seaweed. The picture above doesn’t do the coloring justice. I started out by trying to use up a bunch of charm squares I’d gotten in a fabric exchange (of charm squares) and then randomly placing them with darker colors towards the bottom and lighter closer to the top. Well, I put smiles on the creatures faces… ALL of them. The problem is how to make a sea life quilt for a toddler that does not look like it should belong to someone older. Time has passed and the ideas never left my head. I was already well into another quilt for the baby, so there was no way I could also whip one of these up, too. When my daughter was pregnant, she had talked about making an ocean life quilt for her baby-to-be, but you know how pregnancy sucks up your life that’s exactly what happened. I made this for my toddler grandson, so it’s a little too “involved” for that age, but I ran with it anyway. It started out as a figment of my imagination, and I ran with it. ![]()
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