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Old 10-06-2015, 04:24 AM
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Macybaby
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Thanks for the nice comments!

When I put this on the frame, my husband asked "who is that one for" I told him this one I made for myself. His reply "Good".


I collected different butterfly fabric for a few years with no real plan what I would do - and then I found the butterfly block and went that route. For them, I selected fabric that so I could match the wings as much as possible, just digging through my stash and pulling out anything that looked like it would work.

I cut a top and bottom set of wings out of each fabric, then mixed and matched them - and ended up with about 80 butterflies.

I appliqued the body - and used a satin stitch for around the body and the antennae.



I had originally planned on a king size quilt, but I did not have enough of the light pink I'd used to make the butterflies, and did not like how it looked using something different for the sashing. So in the end, I made a smaller quilt and gave the extra butterfly blocks to a friend.
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