This morning I am heading up to the army hospital to see the Rheumatologist. This is not my normal doctor, that one is deployed in Afghanistan…oddly enough, at the same base as my husband. Today we will be discussing how my medications are treating me and more options for treatment. So wish me luck that all goes well and I can walk out of there with a new game plan to get my hands functioning at a better level.
Hi everyone! Happy Sunday! Today I have Kristy here again to tell you who won the prizes from the Remember September Project. I have to tell you though, the true winners will be the troops who will be blown away by all of your kindness and generosity! Thank you to everyone who picked up needle, thread and fabric and sewed for this month!
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Thank you all so very much for sewing along this month in support of our deployed service men and women. It has been an honor and inspiration to be a part of this project and I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if our final counts end up doubling our original goal of sending 100 handmade gifts to our troops as our album has 183 items in it! That is wonderful! Melissa and I share our gratitude for each and every item sewn!
Congratulations and Enjoy!!! I know you will! :)
Thank you to all the amazing sponsors that provided these incredible gifts!
And once again, thank you all for sewing along!
NEW PROJECT POSTS TOMORROW!!!
Hey Everyone! I’m alive and so is Anne but we are having a really rough week here. I will be back on Monday with a winner from Fat Quarter Shop and hopefully some weekend sewing to show off!
Have a wonderful weekend!
That’s what I have today, nothing. Well…I guess that isn’t entirely true. I have lots of partially sewn pieces – they just aren’t sewn altogether into one thing yet.
Come back tomorrow – hopefully I will have it done!
It? You may be asking. My new handbag!
Dresden Plates are hugely popular right now across the blogosphere. Everywhere you look you will find a Dresden Plate. The first one I ever made was on Jenna from Sew Happy Geek’s QAL. I really loved how it turned out and thought it would be great to try a few more projects with them. During the giveaway from Fat Quarter Shop last month I asked everyone what notion they wanted to try most and one of the top listed was the Easy Dresden Ruler.
The Easy Dresden Ruler is another ruler designed by Darlene Zimmerman and can I just say that she knows what she is doing! You may remember she is also the person who designed the Tri-Recs Rulers that I loved so much!
The ruler comes with cutting instructions and for the standard Dresden Plate. Like this Big Fat Dresden by Lily’s Quilts:
The cutting instructions help you cut wedges 2″ all the way up to 8″ at 1/2″ intervals.
There are also included instructions for Dresden Fans, here is the one I made following Jenna’s tutorial for the Sew. Happy. Quilt.
The included instructions again are for wedges 2″ all the way up to 8″ at 1/2″ intervals. The block size is 1/2 the finished size of the wedge plates.
Also included, a pattern for a quilt, and then 5 different suggested projects without measurements or instructions. There is also a guide for cutting rounded tops on the edges. There is an image for a tumbler quilt and that is where I got the inspiration for my Flock Quilt that I made for Anne last week and finished quilting Tuesday.
This is the epitome of a mini tutorial, sorry about that, but I didn’t take any pictures, luckily it is so easy you do not really need them!
Easy Peasy!
Things I like:
Area’s for Improvement:
Final Thoughts:
The Easy Dresden Ruler is worth every penny. I see lots of projects in my future utilizing this tool. Do you have this ruler? Do you like it? If not, you can purchase one from Fat Quarter Shop. I would love to know if you make Anne’s new Flock Quilt!