December 2009 Challenge: Butterflies! (Page 1)

Design a quilt with a butterfly theme. You may use blocks, motifs, or quilting stencils that are from the EQ block library or draw your own.

--- Barb Vlack

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Barb Vlack Butterflies!	Barb Vlack Contemplating Flight	Beth Brandt Butterflies in my Flower Garden	Anneke de Weerdt butterfly quilt
Designed for the clubEQ challenge, December, 2009 We've barely begun winter, and I'm thinking about spring! This Star layout offers a great way to skew a pieced butterfly block into the arms of a star and to add pieced and appliqued blocks around it. St. Charles, Illinois, USA	Designed for the clubEQ challenge, December, 2009: Butterflies! The little boy in the center block looks like he's trying to figure out either how the butterfly works or how to catch it. He's sitting in a garden that attracts other butterflies. St. Charles, Illinois, USA	I love butterflies and hummingbirds so I always plant lots of flowers in my garden to attract them. I also enjoy applique so my quilt includes applique as well as pieced blocks. Qualicum Beach, B.C. Canada	I drew a butterfly based on heart shapes and then went crazy with the wreathmaker tool. I used the same heart shapes as base for the quilting stencils. Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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Barbara Gilstad Butterfly Delight	Carien Verbiest Nachtvlinders	Carien Verbiest Butterfly Box	Carolyn Laukkonen Butterfly in Red
This table runner is based on a butterfly applique I found in one of the EQ libraries. And to simplify the pattern I deleted some of the butterfly's patches. And now I have a new project to start right after the holidays. Thank you EQ for continuing to spark my creativity with your periodic EQ challenges. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! Barbara in Texas.	Rotterdam the Neherlands	Rotterdam the Netherlands	This butterfly is based on one from the EQ library. Unusually coloured with red and black fabrics. website

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Christiane Wipplinger Jewels in the forest	Christiane Wipplinger Papillon	Claudia Chang Round	Carol E. Skrube Surrounded by Butterflies
Germany	Germany	Taiwan	Sheboygan, Wi.

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Danka Kruszewska Above the meadow	Danka Kruszewska There is something in the wind...	Daphne Stewart One Stubborn Species of Butterfly ©	Dianne Gronfors Butterfly Circles
My own PatchDraw Block with eight point star grid in Horizontal quilt layout. Riegelsberg Germany	My own PatchDraw block with eight point star grid - tilted with Serendipity tool - random recolored in Horizontal quilt layout. Riegelsberg Germany	I first designed this quilt -- based on an old Scandinavian cross stitch design -- to be made up of squares (a grid 42 x 42). I decided it would be easier to piece in blocks (these are 6") and redrafted it that way. A check of 'butterfly' in the encyclopedia is fascinating. I learned that some butterflies can live almost a year, instead of about a week; the wings are covered by tiny scales (this is what gives the bright colors); butterflies appear in Egyptian hieroglyphs from 3500 years ago, In art and literature, they can symbolize the soul, mind, love, or rebirth. The quilt's name comes from the sigh and crash troubles I had with my computer while drawing the blocks. I persevered, being no less stubborn than this particular butterfly. Sunnyside, Washington	The block used is #929 from Block Base. When I rotated the blocks I found some nice secondary patterns. Bracebridge, ON Canada

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Dianne Gronfors Lunch Time	Hélène Laparra Papillon bleu	Hélène Laparra Monarch quilt	Janet Bangs 30's butterflies
've never used photos or embroidery before so this was my chance to try them.The ground is from the photo library and the butterflies from the embroidery library. I drew one plant with flowers and then cloned and resized to make the block. Bracebridge, ON, Canada	I used a butterfly block from the library for this quilt. Happy new Year to all!	I used colors and designs from the Monarch butterfly to make a contemporary look quilt. Best wishes for a great year to all.	The butterfly block is from Blockbase and the Sunbonnet blocks are from EQ. I've been meaning to make a Sunbonnet Sue quilt for ages, and this may prompt me to do it. I can see this in lots of bright scrappy prints.

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Janet Bangs I love butterflys	Jacquelyn Jacobi Summer Memories	Jacquelyn Jacobi PrimRose Path	Jo Moury Flutterbies and fuzzy things
I saw a design like this on Bethany Reynolds Stack n Whack website and adapted it for EQ. I made this quilt up for my mother-in-law's 80th birthday.	Victoria, British Columbia	Victoria, British Columbia	December challenge, original filligree and caterpillar applique, all the butterflies came out of the block library. Along with the happy butterflies in the garden, are a few little caterpllars waiting for their turn at trying their new wings! A wonderful challenge after a record breaking snow fall last weekend! Haymarket VA

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Janet Tannahill Butterfly Garden	Jane Turgeon Positive and Negative Butterflies	Jane Turgeon Butterfly Loops	Judith Best Butterflies in the Cabin
I love butterflies! Mission, KS	Block is modified from Butterfly Ring 2. Best viewed with outlines off. Northeastern Ontario	A continuous line butterfly wreath stencil. Northeastern Ontario	The block used is a variation of a log cabin block with appliqued butterfly bodies and flowers. Ontario Canada

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Kay Ahr Butterfly Baby Quilt	Kay Ahr Butterfly Wall Hanging	Linda Aguiar Butterfly Houses	Linda Aguiar Butterfly Fans
Picture this in pinks, blues, and yellows for a nursery. Sparks, Nevada USA	Used a photo of a butterfly to trace a butterfly shape in EasyDraw. This might be the first block I've designed on my own. It could could some embroidered antennae. Sparks, Nevada USA	Lebanon ME	Lebanon ME

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