EZ Dresden Quilting Challenge

EZ Dresden Mondo Pack Winner

June 12, 2012 By Sukie 1 Comment

So you guys made me laugh with all the fill in the bubble answers! Here’s the list:

Lisa Markham	Super Dresdenman to the Rescue! Here to help with all your Dresden challenges.
Kathleen	Hi there, this is Captain Dresden Blade
Miranda Evans	I vhant to bind your quilt! Mwha ha ha!
Gwen Windham	Sew many stitches to rip, sew little time! Dresden Man to the rescue!!!
Sally Cleghorn Murray	I am the Sheik of Araby
Vidya	The Monsoons are coming ! But Iam prepared with my rain gear ! ( The Monsoons bring heavy rain and farmers wear woven palm rain gear that looks like this )
Gayle Burton	I’m a cone head under cover!
Mary Rachel Kolb	Sorry I lost my sword Robin Hood!
Fran	does my finger look fat in this?
rosa	Shall we dance?
Shari Butler	How you doina?!?! You like what you see? I know I do! (In Joeyas accent from Friends)
Kate Brown	Please dont make me fly alone !
Heidi Staples	Hey, where did everybody go?
LJ	“Look, Ma. No hands!”
Rachelle Sewsable Crosbie	Hey, where are the ties; I fly in this and itall just slide straight off me!
Jessie Hansen	Quilting saves the world!
Leslie	These are not the droids you are looking for…
Becky	…And away we go!!!!!!
Annie	The hills are alive with the sound of sewing machines…
Bruinbr	Never fear! EZ Dresden is here!
Jeana	what a nice quilt – why didn’t you put me in it?
Ivy	Oh no! What are you going to sew me into? I wanna be free!
Jill	Na na na Batman!
Lauren White	“You, ma’am, are a habitual line-stepper.”
Tracey Rampling	To infinity & beyond!
Rachell Reilly	Yo ho ho, thar she blows! I can float away on my Dresden plate for a ship!
Diann Cornell	I’m off to save the world-I’m superfinger!
Nancysue	Does this make my knuckle look big?
Ali Coe	Fear not! The cape crusader will rescue your quilting nightmares! To my quilt-mobile!
Alexis Arnell	Ha! And they thought dresdens were only for quilting.
Amber Hayford	I’m dresden up for the challenge, join me it’s EZ!
Jitka Oherova	Where is any fork?
Jessie	Captain Dresden to the rescue!!!
Melinda Copelan	Super D to the rescue! Have a Dresden inspiration issue? I can help!
Sew Very Sherry	“Cone heads are cool-blue!”
Page	I hope this Pharoah fashion catches on.
Dolores	I really need some boots.
Jennifer J Rodriguez	Thumbkin ain’t got nuthin’ on me!
Katie B	I enlisted Luke’s help. He says, “I’m on my way to the underwater pyramids!”
Amy Boostrom Martin	Take cover!!!!
MarciaW	Zippity Do Dah! I’m a Dresden Today!
Margaret Wright	ZIP ZIP and AWAY!
Naomi Anderson	singing pharoah, pharoah, whoooooa baby, let my people go! uh! yeah, yeah, yeah, yeaaah
erica	you’d be nuts not to enter!
Lindsay Conner	“I’m sew silly!”
Gill	OK Batman – let’s go!
Kim	“So let it be written, so let it be done” (Rameses from the classic film ‘The Ten Commandments’)
thunder	super dresden…brought to you by suki with thanks to Darlene Zimmerman
lee	Holy dresden quilt batman! We need us that ruler!
Rita Goshorn	‘mighty mini’ takes the plate!
Jennie Bobbins	Look up in the sky!! It’s a bird, it’s a plane…no, it’s Superman. Why does he get all the credit? I’m a perfectly good superhero…
Barb@Witsend	aHelp me Obi-Wan Kenobi. Youare my only hope.a
Kim	here I come to save the day
Evelene Sterling	Yippie Skippie I am yours!
Tiara Rosenblatt	Hey gir, sure I’ll help you with your dresden plate and then how about we pick up some le pearle when we’re done
Deana Wolstenholme	I’m Fabricman and I’m here to save the day!
VickiT	I am Super Dresden. I carry a rotary cutter to protect! I am here to protect your sewing room from those who want to steal your creativity or scissors.
Marion Ford McClellan	Does this hat make my butt look fat?
Hueisei	I know I’m beautiful, stop starring at me!
amy dame	shazamm! off to save the world from boring tone on tone prints! (cause thatas what i love about the V and Co line a finally, tone on tones that arenat florals!!)
Ella	“Our house…in the middle of the street!!” (Sorry…he looked like he was playing house and the song popped immediately into my head.)
Lisa England	I’m off to fly into the great blue yonder…..just hope I don’t hit my pointy little head!
Beth McDonald	Looks like rain! I’d better hurry!
Patti	who ever thought of designing a quilt in Excel, of all things?! Brilliant!
lynn	mullets are back in style!
LethargicLass	I am cape-able of quilting tall buildings in a single bobbin!
Lyn	Watch for me in the sequel to Spiderman. Clever, dramatic, disarming the bad guys with a nod of sharp seaming, I am Dresden Dude! Underneath this cape-hood creeps a true finger pointing the way from idle fantasy to serious stash busting.”

The winner is Rosa:

I’m hoping you’re hopping through the blogs and getting your dresden quilts started, remember the link up starts on 9.1.12 on the Salt Lake Modern Quilt Guild site!

June 1
The Modern Quilt Guild themodernquiltguild.com/
Salt Lake MQG: Kick Off www.slmqg.com/

June 2
Lee: freshlypieced.blogspot.com/

June 3
Katie www.fromthebluechair.com/

June 4
Victoria: bumblebeansinc.blogspot.com/
Tanya: www.squaresandtriangles.com/tag/quilt-blog

June 5
Val: howaboutpinkplease.blogspot.com/
Leigh: leedledeedlequilts.blogspot.com/

June 6
Amy: amyscreativeside.com/
Elisa www.stitchoutsidetheditch.com/

June 7
Katie: www.swimbikequilt.com/
Emily: emsscrapbag.blogspot.com/

June 8
Melissa: happyquiltingmelissa.blogspot.com/
Brooke: pitterputterstitch.blogspot.com/

June 9
Nicole: mamalovequilts.blogspot.com/
Amy sukie.mt-wudan.com/

June 10
Elizabeth: www.dontcallmebetsy.com/
Colleen: www.thebusybean.com/

June 11
Faith: www.freshlemonsquilts.com/
Deonn: quiltscapesquilting.blogspot.com/

June 12
Angela: angelaflicker.com/
Barbie: thequiltingmill.blogspot.com/

June 13
Amy: www.diaryofaquilter.com/

June 14
Jessica: sewcraftyjess.blogspot.com/

June 15
Salt Lake MQG: Wrap-up www.slmqg.com/

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Zippy the lap quilt (EZ Dresden Challenge)

June 9, 2012 By Sukie 37 Comments

Yup that’s what I’m naming this quilt I did for the Dresden Challenge. . .

Rewind a little, when Elisa asked me a month ago if I was going to help promote the EZ Dresden Challenge I thought, “Sure why the hell not.“ But have I done dresdens before? Nope. That’s right – I’ve never done a dresden block.

Luckily for me there’s a boat load of great tutorials online to help me (and you). The best one that comes to mind is from Elizabeth Hartman for Sew, Mama, Sew.
Dresden Block Tutorial

(Dresden Plate Block Sew-Along by Elizabeth Hartman on Sew, Mama, Sew)

Another great resource is youtube.com, here’s a great video by the Missouri Quilt Company on how to make a dresden block:

One of the first things I bought when I got into quilting was the easy dresden ruler by Darlene Zimmerman:

Easy Dresden Ruler

(about $10.00)

With any project, when I need inspiration – I head to flickr. There’s a couple of great groups that are dedicated to just dresdens:

Dresden Plates in Quilting

Delicious Dresden Plates

(Small sample of my favorites)

You know what’s the best for dresdens fabricwise? Precuts! That’s right grab that charm pack, layer cake, or fat quarter bundles and go to town with your dresden rulers.

I had a handful of r.k new kona charms and v&c0′s simply color and thought they would go great together. . what do you think?

(the coke can is to show you how tiny the dresdens are)

I thought about layout for a while and made them alternate like so. . and in all honesty, I wasn’t thinking of making a quilt just a small mini in hopes to inspire the group:

I had so many blades that I thought I should put them in a quilt. . so I zig-zag stitched them to 12.5×12.5 kona white squares and then sewed the blocks together and it looked like this (doesn’t it remind you of a zipper??? Hence the name of the quilt):

At this point, I’m starting to doubt my design, but I’m too far down the rabbit hole.

I did a random excel spreadsheet to show what the quilt would look like. I’m really drawn to green, pink, blue, and orange colorways right now.

Well after some really late night sewing sessions here’s what my EZ Dresden quilt looks like (if you’re interested in the pattern I’ll update this post later on with the dimensions of each block):

I hope my quilt inspired you to start on your dresdens and make something awesome to enter!

Fabric used:

2.5×2.5 charms: Simply Color & New Kona Solids

Solids: Pink (Kona Camella 190 & Kona Sour Apple 144)

Sashing: Kona white

Orange: Lucy’s Crab Shack Green Apple and Orange Beach Blanket

Blue: R.K Dimensions – Surf

Giveaway time! I haven’t done a giveaway in a long, long, long time! Here’s what’s going to (1) lucky winner:

Your very own EZ dresden Ruler
(2) Pack of We Love Color buttons (they’re stinkin cute!!)
Scraps from my project above – you’ll be getting some generous fabrics leftover from the green,blue,pink, and orange I used in the quilt

How to enter! Ever fill did a comment for a picture. . Well fill in this word bubble of Mr. Finger playing dress up with a dresden blade as a cape. What would he say? (keep it pg-13 please!)

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EZ Dresden Quilting Challenge

June 5, 2012 By Sukie 2 Comments

Oh no. . . Purse Palooza 2012 will have to be put on the back burner for a couple days. . .(yeah ever get those days where you’ve over committed to things, trust me they’re awesome things if I only had all the time in the world)

It’s actually time for the EZ Dresden Quilting Challenge!

The Salt Lake Modern quilt guild has partnered up with EZ Quilting to host this awesome challenge. The challenge is to celebrate Darlene Zimmerman‘s 20th anniversary with EZ quilting. Here’s the details:

Follow along June 2-14 with some of our favorite bloggers (some you may know, and others who might be new to you). Plus meet some of our talented guild members along the way.
Work like the dickens from June 15-August 31 on your project.
Come back here Sept 1-6 for a Linky Party to enter your creation(s). MARK YOUR CALENDERS
Wait patiently while the judges do their thing, then see who wins on September 17.
Winning quilts get tons of prizes (with random drawings too) PLUS they get to have their quilts displayed in the EZ Quilting/Simplicity booth at the 2012 Fall Quilt Market. How awesome is that?!

You can find all the nitty gritty details here. Be sure to grab our button (on the right) and add it to your blog so others can play along.

(this is the prj I’m working on to show ya’ll)

We’ve planned three categories (small, traditional design, and innovative design) to cover quilters with all styles. Plus, the bloggers cover a range of styles as well so you are sure to be inspired! Along the way bloggers will be giving away rulers to lucky winners. No worries if you don’t win, you can order a ruler here or pick one up at your LQS. NOTE: You aren’t required to use the ruler on your project but it sure would be a nice way to support Darlene.

To get your creative juices flowing The Alliance for American Quilts (one of our generous sponsors) has put together a Pinterest page with examples of Dresden Plate quilts included in their Quilt Index. Feel free to pin Dresden quilts that blow your skirt up if you’re into that sort of thing.

Prizes:

Judges will select their five favorites from each of the three categories then decide as a team the 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rdPlace winners. We’ll use a random number generator to divy up the rest of the loot.

Prizes include:

Singer 7469Q Confidence Quilter Sewing Machine
An Oliso Iron
Gutterman Thread (In-home Cabinet) 100 spools, 100 m, 100% cotton
Photo of the Grand Prize project in 1/3 page Simplicity advertisement in Quilting Arts Magazine
Small quilt made by Darlene in her latest fabrics
Simplicity Deluxe Sidewinders
American Spirit by Fairfield queen-sized batts
One year membership to The Alliance for American Quilts
Subscription to Quilting Arts magazine
FQ bundles of Robert Kaufman Kona cotton & Feedsack Lady prints
EZ Quilting Rulers designed by Darlene Zimmerman
Darlene’s latest pattern book