Butterflies butterflies
The butterflies and corner flowers are raw edge applique. After laundering the edge is already curling nicely which is what I had hoped would happen.
The butterflies and flowers are applied with a fusible web. For the flower vines I used a variegated green.blue thread. The same thread was used for quilting spirals one the yellow bound quilt. The green bound quilt I opted for an echo effect around the butterflies. The first quilt pictured is covered with feathers and pebbles as a filler.
I’m not sure which one I like best but if I were given the choice to choose just one, it would be the quilt with the yellow binding. The background fabric I used is very hard to photograph, it always washes out and looks white. Mother nature decided to play a cruel joke on us and dumped snow on us overnight and it’s still snowing. Behind our house there was 12″ this morning and in front of the house 9″. Why the difference? The front is more protected where the rear is wide open.
Over the years i have viewed many quilt photos taken in the snow but have never tried myself prior to today. Turns out, it takes a very white background to see that light blue.
Now I am off to plan some projects for the next couple of months. If you would like to make one of these you can find the butterfly templates here.
Lovely butterflies! Thanks for linking up with Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal and congrats on your project!
Thank you so much for providing the platform.
Love the way you have distributed the butterflies on these quilts Denise.
Thank you Dione. It’s nice to dabble in applique again.
All three look great! I do love that pop of yellow binding on the blue.
Me too, thank you
I think I too like the yellow one the best although they are all so beautiful! Thanks for linking up to Wednesday Wait Loss.
Thank you Jennifer and I love Wednesday Wait Loss.
I agree with your choice. The eye must hop around more in the other quilts because of the variety of colors and values. The predominately blue butterflies allow the eye to travel diagonally up the quilt, then rest opposite in the corner.
Yellow it is. That seems to be the one everyone chooses. Thank you for stopping by.
These were fun to make but placing the butterflies so the complimented each other was a challenge.
Congrats on reaching your OMG well before the end of the month! My favorite is the middle one two. Love those colors.
I think its the yellow binding that draws us into the middle quilt. Thank you for stopping by.
All 3 look terrific but my fav is the swirl quilting. The contrasting thread makes the quilting stand out and I like the blue and yellow combo of butterflies.
If I had to choose just one it would be the swirls with the yellow binding too. Thank you Sandie.