Great Grandmother's Dresden Plate

Here is a wonderful project that has been waiting patiently for someone for at least 70 years!
My mother mailed this out to me last winter. It struck me as a sending of family treasure to the "frontier", away from it's protective acid-free paper, out to where it would have to travel by gravel and mud to our remote domicile. Her grandmother, my great grandmother made these twenty blocks, along with the ice cream cone border, and had all the lavender sashing cut, along with the sunshine yellow posts. The Dresden Plates are appliqued to the 15" muslin blocks. Each has five pastel solids interspersed with the prints.
Edna Gertrude McClary Artherholt (1870-1942) was a native of Iowa, spending most of her life in Primghar and Red Oak.

I am the fourth of five sisters, and I have a plan to use these in a way that they can be shared amongst us and our mother. I am honored to be entrusted with the completion of what my great grandmother began :)