Cozy Christmas Sew Along - Sew simple Shape Dresden Tutorial!! | Bee In My Bonnet

I LOVE sewing Christmas decorations... and I LOVE dresdens. So... I've been making these little cuties... do you want to make some too?

YaY!
Grab your Cozy Christmas fabric...

And your B-14 Sew Simple Shape

My 2 1/2" x 4 1/2" rectangles leftover from making the Cozy Christmas quilt for this sew along work perfectly for one dresden. Place the triangle upside down and even with the top edge... trace down both sides...

Like this.

Cut on your traced line.

Six of these make one cute little dresden.

To sew the point on top of each dresden blade... fold like this with right sides together.

And sew 1/4"... I like to chain piece mine:)

Open the seam like this and give the seam only a little press with just the tip of your iron....

Then flip it right side out and use your Clover Turning Tool and gently push out for a nice point.

Lay out on your design board... and stitch them together using a 1/4" seam allowance.

Cute!!!

It's super important to press your seams open so that they will lie nice and flat.

You could make fabric circle centers for a more traditional dresden if you want and that would be super cute!

But I thought it would be fun to use the largest size in my Cute Little Buttons jar for the centers of these:)

I made a few more because they're so fun!!

After cutting... I separated them into sets of 6.

And sewed them together! (This is BEFORE pressing the seams open)

They look like cute little Christmas Cookie Dresdens!

They would make super cute coasters... all you would need to do is back them with felt or wool... or appliqué each one on a square or a circle:)

I just love these cozy dresdens... they're so fun to play with:) You could even hang them on your tree!

I decided to use 5 of them to make a pillow. I grabbed 16 - 3" squares that were leftover from the sew along and laid out the pillow like this.
(I sewed one four patch using four squares:)
I chose 5 different buttons but didn't sew them on yet until after appliqué and trimming.

I decided to appliqué mine onto 6" squares... then I trimmed them down to 5 1/2" using one of my new Bee in my Bonnet Trim-It Rulers! (available in January)

It's super easy to make sure that your dresden is centered before trimming by using the centering lines on the ruler:)

After trimming... I sewed each button on using the matching Aurifloss

I laid it out on the design board and sewed them blocks together.

I had a 20" pillow form on hand so I added borders and I love how it turned out!
I hope you enjoyed this "cozy" tutorial and are inspired to make some of your very own Cute Little Dresdens:) xx Lori