Sunday, November 20, 2011

Butterfly Quilt...

Last year I told you about my "Autumn Butterflies" quilt that I started.
to read all about it.

While at retreat ... I was able to get a little bit more time to work on it after I finished my Sew Cherry Swoon quilt.

This quilt is the perfect project to use as many different fabrics as you can...for alot of variety.
I have chosen fun prints from my stash
that I that I thought would make a great butterfly and would contrast nicely with
my brown solid background.

I'm making 100 butterflies for my quilt and I am about halfway there...

I have started joining them into rows of
 2 x 10 butterflies.
As you can see, these are wonky butterflies and are fun to do!
I cut the wings 3 1/8" x 6 1/2"....
 and added my brown background pieces
(cut 2 1/2" x 4 1/2")
 to each side of the wing on an angle.
I trimmed them up and sewed the wings to my brown gingham butterfly body.
(cut 1 1/2" x 6 1/2")
You can follow Amy's tutorial just like
I did if you want to make your own!
xx
Lori 

13 comments:

Martina said...

They are so lovely!

Unknown said...

Cute!! That's alot of butterflies!!!!

Jocelyn said...

Wow! 100 butterflies! This is going to be one cute quilt :-)

Helen L said...

Cute butterfly's, and just wanted to let you know that I just got some of your Daisy Cottage in the mail and Love it: can't wait to sew with it :-)

Anonymous said...

What a gorgeous quilt! Thanks for sharing!

Becky J. said...

i love this pattern! we did this as a signature block and signed the body piece. love it

Mary on Lake Pulaski said...

That is going to be so pretty Lori! Love all the different fabrics for the butterflies!

ShariK said...

Really cute Lori. I love anything brown!

Britt-Inger said...

That will be a awesome quilt. I like the brown background much softer than black.
Wonderful fabric for the butterflies.

Sherri said...

The blocks are gorgeous...and 100...what an amazing quilt this will be!

Alissa said...

Ohhhhh.....this is a cute one! Thanks for sharing!

butterfly party favors said...

Wow! you really so creative! I really like the way you do this!

Cara Memasak said...

Thanks a lot

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