Dresden Plates - Cutting

My Dresden plate blocks are on today's design wall.
Thank you for those who helped me pick out my colors!  I was worried about not having enough fabric, but what was not "computing" is that I do not need very much fabric for the plates.  I'll probably buy a white muslin or sheet for the back ground.  I'll decide after I sew my plates together.  See my previous post about selecting the fabrics here.
I decided to use just the blue and green fabrics, and only had to use half of them!

I am going to use the stripe as the circle in the middle and maybe the body of the butterfly also.

I have decided to make my wedges 5 1/2 inches, which will make a 15 inch block.  According to the tutorial I found here, the plate will have 20 wedges, but their wedges are only 4 inches.  She says to make 240 wedges for 12 plates.  I made 223 since some of mine will be butterflies and not need as many wedges.  I have extra fabric in case I need to make more.
First I needed to straighten my edges.

 I started by cutting 5 1/2 inch strips.

Then I took my easy Dresden tool by Darlene Zimmerman and started to cut my wedges.

After I cut a wedge this way, I flipped it upside down to cut the next one.  This saves material.

Here they all are.

I will be making a 5 patch sashing or border or both, depends on what I decide to do, with the leftover fabric.

Now I need to start sewing them!  That will be my next blog post!
Have you ever made a Dresden plate quilt before?  How big was yours and with how many wedges?
Missy