Baby Butterfly centers...and update!

I thought I'd show the adorable fabric I'm using for the body of the Baby Butterflies.  It's from Bee Basics by Lori Holt for Riley Blake.  Don't any of you go getting any ideas...I'm gonna buy it all up because it is so very, very cute!

In between pics I'll let you know what I've been up to this last year...I retired from teaching last April, had a surgery, became a pharmacy technician, worked at that for the last 8 months, then decided to change it up again and restart my longarm quilting business.  

Back to the fabric--check out the cute lines on text on this print!!  I didn't bother to fussy cut the strips because they easily all had cute little sayings on each strip without any effort from me.

Back again to longarming--this time I'm adding an Intelliquilter (computerized quilting software) to my longarm machine to "up my game" professionally.  My plan is to give reasonable notice at my pharmacy job, move my studio downstairs, and have the system installed in early summer.  With any luck, I should have my system up and running by the end of June.  Log Cabin Quiltery will be back in business!

Here is a pic of the selvedge on this wonderful fabric...

Anyhow, I'll let you know how the studio move works out.  For sure I'll take some before and after pics during all the stages.  This should be super fun!

 Happy Quilting!

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!