fortquilt Greenery - This quilt started with making the center Dresden Plate block as an experiment using a tutorial I found on the internet ( http://lurlineg.blogspot.com/2009/12/dresden-plate-tutorial.html ). Then the idea of using partial Dresden Plates to make the curve going round the center developed into this completed quilt. The straight line quilting in the Dresden Plates looks like a dahlia on the back of the quilt. The white with tiny green dots background was quilted with feathers. All this you can see in more detail here: quiltsbyjoyce.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/greenery/ I had quite a stash of greens and a number of green scraps that went into the plates. The partial plates were sewn together into the curve and then appliqued to the background.