Two Butterfly Patch Quilts

Earlier this year I made two "Butterfly Patch" quilts.  The first one is in Bonnie and Camille's "The Good Life" range of fabrics.

The quilts were sent to Sarah to quilt with wavy lines and I'm so happy with them.

The second quilt was made with Bonnie and Camille's "Smitten" fabric.  I added a border to this quilt to make it queen bed size and also made a pair of matching pillow cases.

The Smitten quilt was given to Jenni and Kurt for their engagement/wedding present.

Binding

A parcel from Sarah arrived earlier this week - two "Butterfly Patch" quilts.

Along with "Sylvia's Bridal Sampler" I will have loads of binding to keep me busy while catching up on some tv shows over the Easter weekend (in between wedding sewing and spending time with family and friends).

"Butterfly Patch" in Bonnie and Camille's Smitten fabric quilted in wavy lines:

and another "Butterfly Patch" in Bonnie and Camille's The Good Life also quilted with wavy lines:

Picked up my sewing machine on Tuesday and finished off the Flower Girl's dress - it's very sweet.

I've been making this month's "Summer Moon" blocks and need to catch up on this month's "Christmas Cheer" row.

Tomorrow is our annual sewing day with The Girls and I've cut out "Dashing" in FigTree & Co's new "Chantilly" range to start sewing.

So many pretty colours in this fabric range.

The family is coming for lunch on Sunday - looking forward to lots of fun with my sweethearts.

Rogue One

Postal services have been very slow lately - it's taken 3 weeks for a bundle of fabric to arrive from USA and I'm waiting on more parcels that are taking even longer.

The turquoise and rose fabric arrived yesterday for the Smitten "Butterfly Patch" backing along with the check to use in "Sweet Escape", when I'm ready to start that one.

Fabric is on the way to back "The Good Life" version of "Butterfly Patch", "All Wrapped Up" and "Go Four It" - my backings chest is pretty empty.

"Go Four It" quilt top will be finished tonight.  I decided to add borders after all for a few reasons:  to stabilise all the bias edges around the perimeter of the quilt top; so that I won't have to deal with points when sewing on the binding and to use up more fabric in my stash.  The spot is a fun fabric that I've had for quite a few years.

Took a photo of the quilt top before adding the borders

and noticed a rogue block in the bottom right hand corner.

Very happy I found that block and was able to turn it around before the top was quilted.  So far there are 4,534 pieces of fabric in this quilt.

More Tops

Spent most of last week's sewing time making filler blocks for the B&C Sampler.  I really enjoyed working out all the maths so the blocks would fit together and there aren't too many filler strips that aren't blocks.

I'm very pleased with the overall outcome of the quilt top.

Borders were added

and the backing and binding have been made.

Some fabric parcels arrived last week and I was able to finish putting together the Smitten version of "Butterfly Patch".

I added a border to this one too.

Picked up "Summer Nights" from Karen last week - always love Orange Peel quilting - and now Mum is stitching down the binding.

Over the weekend I pulled out my "Seaglass" blocks and started sewing them together.  The little pieces of white fabric really add some sparkle.

The alternate blocks are Moda Essential Dots in teal on a cream background - a nice contrast to all the pretty FigTree fabrics.

There was also more wedding sewing and I'm hoping to spend next weekend with The Bride to finalise the top.  But, before then, we are hoping for some very exciting, happy news tomorrow.

Moda Love String Quilt

Last month, Moda fabrics hosted a quilt-along to make their Moda Love Quilt.  I'd recently seen a Moda Love Quilt made with scrappy log cabin blocks and thought it could work with string blocks.

I stitched down the scrappy binding over the last two days - spent them with Mum as she recovered from cataract surgery.

The quilt is 71" square.

I love the multi-coloured polka dot background fabric.  Karen used a new quilting design called "Pearl's Desire".

The "Smitten" fabric for the butterfly body arrived yesterday.  This version of the quilt will have a couple of borders added when some more of the aqua check fabric arrives - it's for a special present.

Waiting for some green The Good Life fabric so that I can finish off the other butterfly.

Looking forward to the weekend - spending time with my little sweethearts and the Schoolgirls.

Butterflies

I'm waiting for green fabric for the butterfly body and aqua check fabric for the outer border to arrive so I can complete "Butterfly Patch" in Bonnie and Camille's "Smitten" fabric.

So, I started another "Butterfly Patch" in Bonnie and Camille's "The Good Life fabric.  Once again I've needed to order more fabric as I've run out of the white I use in almost all of my quilts and I need a green for the butterfly body.  Such a great pattern for a quick quilt.

Karen quilted "Moda Love" over the weekend.

and scrappy binding has been sewn on ready to stitch down in the next while

along with the binding on "Seaglass" variation.

Busy, busy weekend cleaning out kitchen cupboards then helping a friend pack for her big move to Sydney today.  Last basketball home game of the season on Saturday night - a disappointing end to the season - but dinner beforehand was nice.

More kitchen cupboard cleaning on Sunday then stitching with the girls in the afternoon.  Only the recipe books to go through now.

New Start

Last year while making Bonnie and Camille beehive blocks, I decided to make a second block each month so that I would have a sampler quilt at the end of the year.  I forgot to make the extra "Sugar Plums" block, so it's now done.

And I had some half-square triangles and hourglass blocks left over from last year's "Snippets" quilt, so these have been sewn together to add to the Sampler pile.

More "Smitten" fabric is on the way and I've been waiting for it to start a new quilt - my patience ran out, I started "Butterfly Patch" anyway with what I already have.  This quilt will come together pretty quickly as the blocks are all 6" finished.  I'm using "Vintage Holiday" silver dot on white fabric for the Sawtooth Star block stars and will probably use a piece of "Vintage Picnic" white dot on green for the body of the butterfly.