eye2quilt

A great book to have in your library..........".Mastering Machine Applique" by Harriet Hardgrave. This will help you tremendously!!

madamekelly

When I did my first one, I got the idea to put heat and bond light under the points, so that as I got it laid out flat, I could iron it down. I then safety pinned the center, and hand stitched it down with a blind stitch. Easy Peasy.

JCL in FL

me too. use the tiny little pins that are for applique, you don't get stuck as much

Greenheron

Are you blanket stitching by hand? When I finished a friend's quilts for him I didn't know about starch, glue, web, etc. I pressed the assembled and hemmed plates carefully and then basted each one to its block before blanket stitching by hand. I hope you solve your difficulty.

piccupstix

I've done a couple with no trouble but I stitched a back to each plate wrong-side out,pressed it, and the turned it right side out through the middle of the plate before I stitched the circle in the middle. The time consuming part was the pressing but the plates were easily placed after that.

Latrinka

All I did was pin plate to background fabric. Pin center and pin each blade close to outside edge of blade. I didn't use starch or basting spray or glue.

piccupstix

Trish,
Love your Dresden Plate!

fran624

Must remember this about the starch and glue with these plates when I start

maggiemuggins

If your blades are puckering in the center and are not lying flat,my LQS lady suggested taking a small tuck in the joining seam of the blades but just enough so that they will lie flat...the circle then covers the little tuck and you cant see it.

MadQuilter

I find that when the plate doesn't lay flat, either the angle isn't right, or the seam allowance is off and there is too much to bunch up. I have. Normally I don't starch my fabric but I mark my seam line to make sure that I have an accurate seam allowance.