This is my butterfly quilt. I love butterflies and have been collecting different butterfly fabrics for years. I finally felt that I had collected enough of them to make myself a butterfly quilt large enough to be a bed spread.
I designed this quilt myself. The blocks with the white background have appliqued flowers and butterflies on them. Most of the butterfly and flower patterns were made up, but I got some of them from pattern books. Each of the blocks in between the applique blocks is an 8" block of one of the butterfly fabrics I have collected. Each butterfly fabric block is unique, and all of the fabrics on the applique butterflies are unique.
I finished piecing this quilt in June, 2004.
As of now, I am still quilting it, but I am nearing the finish line.
To quilt the blocks, I am outlining the appliqued butterflies and flowers and quilting a meandering path from a flower to the butterfly that is 2 blocks above it.
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