The Sewing Mom

These are the fabrics I am using to create a “butterfly” quilt. The backgrounds are all a neutral white and the butterfly wings are all bright, vivid colors. I managed to get the top wings all ready, but I screwed up the bottom wings, they are all facing only one direction and they need to be going in opposite directions. Ahhh, well, no quilt is handmade without a mistake or two!

I am limited on the fabric so I can either completely redo the bottom wings which will take much more time, or, I can attempt to find the exact fabric and purchase more to fix my errors. I am trying to find the exact fabric, it will be less time consuming!

More pictures to follow, I am trying to do a picture diary of this quilt.

My step-daughter is pregnant with her 2nd baby and I am sewing a baby quilt for her. I started on another pattern, one with butterfly designs, but I screwed up the butterfly tails! I do plan on fixing my mistake, but, I am sort of under a time crunch with the baby being due in June, and it’s going to take me some time to fix my flub. So, I ran across this beautiful fabric and decided to make this quilt instead. Truthfully, I’m liking it even more for a baby than the one I was working on!

The fabric and pattern are both called Nana’s Garden. It is comprised of various width fabric strips with a narrow border to create a rectangle. I then machine appliqued the flowers and bunny to the top. I have a wider border ready to be sewn on and then it’s ready to be quilted.