Dresden Garden (we're getting there!)

Ta Da!! The continued evolution of my Dresden plate/flower garden hits
another milestone. I finished up the appliqued strips with vines, leaves, flowers, ladybugs, and butterflies (learning an awful lot about applique in the process!) and fiddled around with how I should lay them out. I had originally though I should place them between the columns like in the picture above (note the quilt being inspected as usual)



But when the strips were finished (and yes I moronically did them as all one piece instead of subdividing --- never again will I make that mistake!) my Quilt Inspector and I decided that they really did look better in the border rather than in between. It was a tough choice ... maybe I should have stuck with my original layout but who knows! I think the change I made might have just satisfied my need to make a border that wasn't plain and boring for once :D

Comment from my boyfriend that tickled me: "Oh honey can we keep this one?"

Hope all of you out in quilt/blog land are having a good weekend!