Thursday, March 29, 2018

Rainbow Baby Butterflies...

I know it's been a while and, with Instagram, I'm not sure how many people actually read blogs anymore...but I miss blogging.  So here is a post about a project I started last week!


One of my favorite patterns to make is my Baby Butterflies.  These modern butterflies are so adorable--and they can be made from 2-1/2" strips, so they are perfect for jelly rolls or scraps.  I decided that I needed to make a small, rainbow, scrappy butterfly quilt for my dog Buddy (and me, of  course).  It was to be about the size of a baby quilt...lol...


So about a week ago I started grabbing fabric from my stash and cutting strips, then subcutting to make the wings.  This is the pile that I'm sewing from right now.  I needed about 80 pairs of wings and I ended up with over 200 different sets!! Crazy....


While I was at it, I cut extra wings...because...why not?  I'm sure this is going to be super-duper and maybe I'll want to make another one, right??  So here are an extra 500+ pairs of wings...


And since I was already cutting something scrappy, I figured I might as well cut a bunch of 2-1/2" strips, just because...and that became it's own project!



I finally got to sewing yesterday, with Rebecca's help, and I like where this is going!!  I'll post more on the print for center of the butterflies when I can get a good pic.  And more on where I've been the last year...


Happy Quilting!