Sarah brought me this fun butterfly quilt and I got to play a bunch in the borders.
It is quilts like this that make me appreciate the 26″ throat on my APQS Millennium machine. Sarah’s butterflies are big- around 16″ square. With my Mille’s huge workspace I could do each row of butterflies and the sashings in one pass! Have a longarm this big really helps save time and it lets me tie the design lines more easily on big blocks like this.
I picked up the dots in the fabric and repeated that in the smallest green border. The second pieced border has daisy repeats dancing around the top. The outermost border are butterflies and are easier to see from the back.
Sarah had done an amazing amount of work in the sashings. The entire white sashing is pieced! To accent all that work I used line dancing to add some twist and movement to the piecing. Each butterfly has wing accents and an elliptical body. Behind the butterflies are loops mimicking the flight pattern of the butterfly.
On the frame now… Rosemary’s machine applique flower garden. Beautimous!
I’m Angela- Co-host of the Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting PBS show. APQS Long arm Dealer and Educator. Triplet Momma. Designer. Thread Bimbo.
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You do such an amazing job on all of the quilts that you quilt. But there sure is something about this one that really makes my heart sing.
Awww, thanks, DM! Sarah is out of town so she hasn't seen it yet but I know she'll love it too. It will make some little girl very happy. Hey, guess what? My triplets turn 11 in a couple weeks. Can you believe that? I tried to get my daughter to have sewing party with their friends like your girls but she'd decided to have a tie-dye party instead. I'm thinking I'll drop some dyeable fabric in the vat too. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!