Dresden Poinsettia Table Mat Sewing Tutorial

Dresden Poinsettia Table Mat Sewing Tutorial

Sew a festive Dresden Poinsettia Table Topper in an evening—with the Easy Dresden Ruler Template and coordinating fabrics from the Marbleized Fabric Collection by Kansas Studio for Benartex. Plus Shop our 12 Days of Christmas Sale at ShopNZP.com. 

We’re illustrating our Dresden Poinsettia Table Topper with coordinating fabrics from the Marbleized Fabric Collection by Kansas Studio for Benartex Designer Fabrics.

Dresden Poinsettia Table Topper Supplies

1/4 yd each Coordinating Fabrics, Fat Quarters work well for this project

Easy Dresden Ruler Template

Pellon ShirTailor Fusible Interfacing

Clover’s 5-in-1 Sliding Gauges

Clover’s New! Hot Hemmer Square

Clover’s Point 2 Point Turner

Clover’s “Quick Cut” Thread Cutter

Clover’s Flower Head Pins

Clover’s Straight Tailor’s Awl Stiletto 

Frixion Marking Pen

Scissors

Clover’s Rotary Cutter, mat, and ruler

Rotary Pinking Blade

Metrosene Plus Thread

Schmetz Chrome Universal Sewing Machine Needles Size 80

June Tailor’s Quilter’s Starch Savvy

Sewing Machine

June Tailor’s Eze-View Pressing Cloth

Iron

Tailor’s Clapper

You’re the designer, choose your favorite fabrics to create the Dresden Poinsettia Table Topper, Team NZP chose the following.

Prepare your fabrics! Pre-shrink fabrics by steaming and pressing. Then, stabilize fabrics for the sewing process by pressing and starching fabrics with Quilter’s Starch Savvy.

Dresden Poinsettia Table Topper

Approx. finished size 18″

• We chose four coordinating fabrics, three fabrics for the Dresden wedges, and one fabric for the center circle.

• Cut 8″ Crosswise Fabric strips from three fabrics: Marbleized Crimson, Marbleized Scarlet Red, and Marbleized Forest Green.

• Using the Easy Dresden Ruler Template cut Ten wedges from Marbleized Crimson.
• Using the Easy Dresden Ruler Template cut Five wedges from Marbleized Scarlet Red.
• Using the Easy Dresden Ruler Template cut Five wedges from Marbleized Forest Green.

• Cut a total of 20 wedges per complete Dresden Plate or circle.
• Layout Dresden wedges as shown below.

Set sewing machine to a 2.0 stitch length.

• Fold wedges right sides together along the lengeth of the wedge. Stitch wedges along the top–with scant 1/4″ seams.

• Chain stitch wedges together.

• Using Clover’s “Quick Cut” Thread Cutter, or scissors, clip threads between wedges.

• Using Clover’s Point 2 Point turner, turn points right sides out.

• Using Clover’s NEW! Hot Hemmer Square, align seam at one corner diagonal line and press.

• Repeat steps above with for all wedges and layout Dresden Plate as shown below.

• Align two wedges right sides together and stitch with scant 1/4″ seam.

• Continue stitching five wedges together.

• Five Dresden wedges create one quarter of the Dresden Plate or circle.
• Press seams open.

• Use Tailor’s Clapper to set seam.

• Repeat steps above and create the four quarters of the Dresden Plate.

• Stitch top two quarter-assemblies together, using a scant 1/4″ seam.
• Stitch remaining bottom quarter-assemblies together, using a scant 1/4″ seam.

• Stitch top and bottom assemblies together.

Create Center Circle

• Cut one 4-1/2″ square from Marbleized Marigold Yellow and cut one 4-1/2″ square from Pellon’s ShirTailor Interfacing.
• Place right sides together with glue dots facing away from fabric.

We’re making a 4″ center circle for the center of our Dresden Poinsettia Table Topper. 

• Using Clover’s 5-in-1 Sliding Gauge and a Frixion Pen, trace a 4″ Circle on the interfacing.
• Optional: Pin.

• Stitch on the marked line using a short stitch length.

• Use a 45 mm rotary pinking blade and trim away excess fabric, approx. 1/4″ outside stitching line.

When using a pinking blade, cut on the back side of cutting mat.

• Using a scissors, cut away excess interfacing on the inside of the stitch line, leaving approx. 1″ of interfacing.

• Turn interfacing to the wrong side.

• Use Clover’s Point 2 Point Turner to assist with turning and smoothing of the curved seam allowance.

• Using June Tailor’s Eze-View Pressing Cloth and press ShirTailor Interfacing to wrong side of fabric.

• Place Dresden Poinsettia Table Topper Assembly right side up on cutting mat.

• Using Clover’s 5-in-1 Sliding Gauge, place center circle onto center of Dresden Poinsettia Assembly. Pin.

• Stitch center circle to Dresden Poinsettia Table Topper with coordinating thread or monofilament thread. Choose a straight stitch, blanket stitch, or other decorative stitch.

Add Backing

Team NZP chose Felt for backing our Table Topper.

• Place Table Topper wrong side up on table.
• Measure table topper diameter from Dresden wedge valley to valley, across widest width of Dresden Plate.

• Subtract an 1/8″ to 1/4″ from this measurement, to determine felt backing circle diameter.
• Using Clover’s Supersize 5-in-1 Sliding Gauge and Frixion Marking Pen, mark the felt backing circle cutting line onto the wrong side of felt.

• Cut out backing circle along marked line.

• Place Dresden Plate wrong side up on table.

• Pin or use fabric glue to temporarily hold backing in place.
• Place backing circle to wrong side of Dresden Table Topper.

• Handstitch backing in place, using needle and thread.

• Your Dresden Table Topper is complete!

Dresden Poinsettia Table Topper Supplies

1/4 yd each Coordinating Fabrics, Fat Quarters work well for this project

Easy Dresden Ruler Template

Pellon ShirTailor Fusible Interfacing

Clover’s 5-in-1 Sliding Gauge

Clover’s New! Hot Hemmer Square

Clover’s Point 2 Point Turner

Clover’s “Quick Cut” Thread Cutter

Clover’s Flower Head Pins

Clover’s Straight Tailor’s Awl Stiletto 

Frixion Marking Pen

Scissors

Clover’s Rotary Cutter, mat, and ruler

Rotary Pinking Blade

Metrosene Plus Thread

Schmetz Chrome Universal Sewing Machine Needles Size 80

June Tailor’s Quilter’s Starch Savvy

Sewing Machine

June Tailor’s Eze-View Pressing Cloth

Iron

Tailor’s Clapper