Scrappy Dresden Plate Quilt-A-Long Week One

After getting started on my Dresden Plate for Anne Sutton's quilt-a-along, I'm not sure I can say I'm doing a "scrappy" Dresden Plate.  I'm only using 8 fabrics for the plates.  But I've had my EZ Dresden Ruler...

And my yummy Flower Sugar fabrics by Lecien for a while now...

Here are my plates pieces all cut and ready to go...

And the pieces stitched at the top to make the "spokes" (I guess that's what you call them)...

I was surprised at how quickly my plate went together...

This is what I'm using for the background and the center will be the red fabric shown at the top of the stack in the first photo.

I'm still deciding whether to hand or machine applique these down.  I'm leaning towards hand applique right now, but I'll probably do half of one and change my mind - LOL!  Besides, I've just gotten myself involved in a huge embroidery project, so that's probably enough hand work for a while.  More to come on that!