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!