A Dresden Dilemma

Well after looking at my photos I decided I was not loving the dark blue blade in the Dresden.  What was I going to do?  I really didn't want to go shopping for stash enhancement. (I know, I know she doth protest too much) I wanted to find something in my stash that would work.  Which means stash shopping, especially after my latest discovery of two boxes full of fabric in my closet underneath and behind my rolls of batting.

These are all of my fat quarters except for the batiks, and solids.  Piles of orange, green which is toppling over onto the neutrals/black and white pile, which is severely leaning on the pile of blue, which is barely staying up because of the red/coral.  I think I need to organize maybe by shade, as well as maybe strips, polka dots, homespuns, florals, and novelty prints.  DH recently brought me home these baskets.

They are baskets out of freezers which have been sent to the dump.  He said, maybe you could make a fabric liner, and then stack your fat quarters in them so it would be easier to see them. 

Anyway back to my Dresden dilemma.....doesn't that sound like some kind of quilting mystery?  I pulled several florals out of my stash and decided on this yellow.

I think this is a scrap that I have left from a dress that I made the middle daughter Rebecca when she was about 2 years old---sshhh don't tell anyone but that was over 25 years ago!  If I remember right it had lace, and bright pink ribbon accents on the dress,and with her coloring it was so cute.  Jack the ripper and I removed the offending blades, and replaced them with these lovelies.

Much nicer and softer and sweet looking. 

Here are the 5 Dresden plates I am going to use.  I want to do a quilt with once in the center but I am thinking about making it a double layer, with a solid behind it, then the other 4 at the corners kind of like the layout of a playing card.  I also need to decide on what colors I am going to use in the center of each of these, and get my foundation ready to lay them out.  I was thinking that the centers should be pink, lavender, pale blue, pale yellow, and maybe a coral color sticking with the low volume look. 

DH also found these going into the garbage pit.

There was also a picnic basket with the hinged lids, but he didn't get to it fast enough and it was crushed.  As you can see these baskets are quite large. 

I think my Dresden dilemma is solved, now to clean up the ginormous mess I made in my sewing room.  How do you organize your fat quarters?  By color, by style, or willy nilly?