This is my second entry into the Bloggers Quilt Festival and this time I have entered my Butterflies quilt, a pattern by Laundry Basket Designs, into the Applique Category. I made this quilt back in December 2015 so my original post of it was in the snow. So I thought it would be fun to give it another photo shoot in the fall colours.
I quilted the butterflies with a free hand feather and swirl motif. I then stitch in the ditch around each butterfly and pebbled the background to allow them to pop!
The butterflies are fused down and then machine appliqued using smoky invisible thread with a blind hem stitch. I started to embroider the antenna but then changed my mind and just drew them on, very happy I did that!
Hope your enjoying the Festival, the voting starts in three days and the festival runs until Sept 30.
I love this quilt! But your photos are just nice, Kathy!
ReplyDeleteI love this quilt! It is absolutely beautiful!
ReplyDeleteLove these butterflies. Beautiful quilt!
ReplyDeleteБабочки прекрасны! Удачи.
ReplyDeleteThis is just a beauty!
ReplyDeleteSo very pretty. I love the colors of the butterflies, and how you quilted it.
ReplyDeleteTruly awesome!
ReplyDeleteSimply beautiful! I just love the feather quilting in the wings!
ReplyDeleteyou chose a super quilt for that category, beautiful fabrics and quilting. I have one in the small quilts, it missed being a mini by 4 inches!! looks like soon your settings for a photo shoot will have some snow.
ReplyDeleteI love butterflies and I am very excited about your wonderful quilt!
ReplyDeleteSimply gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThe fall colored backdrop really brings out the colors. Quilt is still as beautiful now as it first was on the snow.
ReplyDeleteI love the butterfly effect! Nice quilt ♥
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This is wonderful quilt. The quilting is amazing.
ReplyDeleteI do love this quilt Kathy! the fall colours really bring out the richness of that gorgeous fabric!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely quilt. Those butterflies look almost real! Great photos also. Now following your blog :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilt! I guess I could spend an hour looking at it in real life, appreciating all the fabrics)) And your photos on all the different backgrounds could be framed and hung as art, too!
ReplyDeleteIt's so beautiful!!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, this is the most beautiful butterfly quilt I have seen in years. In years past, butterfly quilts were quite common, and many were made in calicos and later, in Aunt Grace reprints. But, these batik butterfllies just have an unusual richness to them that I adore. I hope you do well in the competition, but in my mind, you are already a winner.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful quilt. Such lovely colours and the butterflies are just perfect.
ReplyDeleteI love this quilt! I took a class last week taught by Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts. She is so fun and creative.
ReplyDeleteI love this quilt! I took a class last week taught by Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts. She is so fun and creative.
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