December 2009 Challenge: Butterflies! (Page 1)

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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

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.

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Germany

Germany

Taiwan

Sheboygan, Wi.

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

'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.

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

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

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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