Mini Dresden Plate

This simple, small version of the traditional Dresden Plate block has eight segments, each with a pointed edge – good to look at and easy to construct.

Fabric choices

Two fabrics are used alternately for the plate with a third fabric as the centre circle.The plate is placed on a square of background fabric to complete the block. Audition the fabrics to make sure that the alternating fabrics of the plate are equal in strength without one dominating too much over the other.You can do this by folding down both candidate fabrics to the same size as each other andand ).