Hi,
Hope you are doing well and having a good Summer.
Today I'm posting my progress on the Aurifil Dresden Summer Stitch Along. The stitch along is for a Dresden quilt with hand embroidery designs. I forgot how much I enjoy doing stamped line embroidery! I finished stitching my Week 1 designs, so I was looking forward to Week 2 so I could stitch some more! It is very relaxing, and also working on them has inspired me to get out my embroidery books to possibly try out some more stitches.
Here is this weeks progress:
Embroidered designs (I chose to use 2 colors in one design, and I may add some French knots to the center!)
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Stitched week 2 Susan Ache designs - I chose to use 8 weight Pearl cotton (I have a little stash of it!) You can also use Aurifil thread. |
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Detail of embroidered design - I like playing with combining the thread colors to match my fabrics |
I have been busy cutting out fabric and sewing the Dresden wedges for the quilt. There are a lot of them to prepare. I was tracing the template and cutting them out with my rotary cutter. Since I have a cutting machine (Brother Scan n Cut DX125) I decided to try that. I made a tracing of the wedges to scan into my machine. I was able to cut out 8 wedges at a time from my 10 inch squares (layer cake) of fabric. I am still using the rotary cutter for cutting out pieces from jelly rolls. I could get a little more from the 10 inch square cutting by hand, but it takes a bit more time! I have more projects to work on, so I decided to give the cutting machine a try.
Here is a photo of my chain piecing so far - I pieced these on my Brother PQ1500S straight stitch machine - it did a great job!

Chain piecing makes a fun banner!
You can get the 2 designs for this week at this address:
auribuzz.com/2025/07/04/Dresden-Summer-Stitch-Along-week/2
Hope you enjoy this shared project!
Happy Quilting,
Blessings,
Denise A Buchwalter-Losczyk .