Dresden Summer Stitch Along - Progress update! Week 3 sewing and embroidery

Hi!

A little update on my progress on the Dresden Summer Stitch Along - here are my embroidered blocks from Week 3:

Week 3 Susan Ache Embroidery Designs stitched

Here is the back side of the embroidery, I carry my stitches along by catching the thread in the previous stitches. This way it doesn't show through the fabric on the right side.

Backside of the embroideries (fun to see)!

I have been busy preparing wedges for the Dresden blocks too, here are some I've created so far, there are 240 wedges in the quilt:

Some of my prepared wedges - using Riley Blake Liberty London
fabric (a 10 inch layer cake) and Kaufman fabrics (a jelly roll).

And, I even managed to sew some of the wedges together to make 2 Dresden plates. I still need to add the centers. I was thrilled with the result! I think I may be adding some more Dresden Plate projects to my list of quilts to make!

Dresden plate blades sewn together.

I'm enjoying this process, just doing a little at a time. I cut and sew a few hours in the afternoon in my studio, not all day! I have been stitching some of the embroidery in the evening too.

I hope you are creating something wonderful this Summer! It is great for lifting your spirits, and you have beautiful projects as a result, too.

Blessings to you,

Denise A. Buchwalter-Losczyk

Dresden Summer Stitch Along Week 3 - sharing the link

Hi,

A very short post today - I am sharing the link for the Dresden Summer Stitch Along, Week 3, with Aurifil, Moda, and Susan Ache!

Here is the link: https://auribuzz.com/2025/07/18/dresden-summer-stitch-along-week-3/

I am excited to see this weeks' embroidery designs. I have been enjoying working on this project. I'll share my progress with it in a later post.

Happy Stitching and Summer to you!

Blessings,

Denise A. Buchwalter-Losczyk

Progress on Aurifil Dresden Summer Stitch Along - Week 2 embroidery designs by Susan Ache

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!)

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.

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                              .