tis the season...i have many fabrics from the 70's & 80's with butterflies too- they tend to come out in abundance in the summertime.

I have noticed there are a lot of digital quilting patterns with butterfly's to go along with the fabrics.

Fabric Freedom has had several butterfly fabrics the past several years.

My grandaughter wants butterflies on her quilt..I got the prettiest fabric in Joannes with multi colored butterflies, and glitter....

You're not imagining things. There definitely *are* a lot of butterfly fabrics available right now!

I have butterfly fabric which is more than 10 years old, so I don't think it is very new or unusual. I actually prefer the dragonfly designs which are becoming more commonplace.

Butterflies and dragonflies too...love them both

Butterflies are not new. Many years ago my mom made several butterfly quilts and she won a very nice rocking chair and chairside lamp at a local quilt show, both with her butterflies. I love them. She and I were driving downtown and she saw some large cardboard butterflies in a floral shop window. She asked me to stop and see if we could trace a pattern off them. I wasn't crazy about it but did stop and when I got into the store a young boy about 16 came to the counter and I asked if I could trace one of the butterflies. He looked at me like I was dangerously insane and went around a wall and said to a lady back there, "There is a lady out here who wants to TRACE one of those cardboard butterflies in the window, WHAT do I do?" She told him to give me a piece of paper and a pencil and let me trace one. I was so embrrrassed! She made a quilt from that pattern and cut enough for me to have a quilt also...well worth the trials!

I have seen a lot of dragon fly prints also. They all are pretty.

I just made a baby quilt with butterflies because that's how the mom was doing the room cause She likes butterflies. They have been around for quite sometime but I do think they are going through a bit of popularity right now.