Butterflies in the Sky

Last year was my first year doing the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  I chose a butterfly block that All I adapted slightly from the Summer 2014 issue of Quilter's World magazine.  Each butterfly is 12 1/2" high and 17" long unfinished.  Over the course of 2016, I made 16 butterflies.  The 9 brightest went into a quilt for my friend's daughter June.

Baby June's quilt

Six more scrappy butterflies went into this project.  I used some blue solid that I had from before I pledge my complete solid allegiance to Kona. The blue seemed like sky, hence the name "butterflies in the sky," which had the added effect of me singing the Reading Rainbow theme song whenever I worked on it.

I used my wavy line stitch in horizontal rows to make it look like the butterflies are in flight.

This will go to my local Project Linus chapter.  One of the organizations they donate to is Butterfly House, a child advocacy center in a nearby county. They especially like blankets with butterflies, so I suspect this will go there.

I took these photos last weekend and it was really windy. When my son saw the quilt blowing, he grabbed the corner to make it stay still.

I bet you didn't know Superman is also a fire fighter!

I have one butterfly left and it was the first one I made.  It will become a mini for my wall of mini quilts in my office.  It's the one with Darth Vader in it, which makes me incredible happy.

Finishing Butterflies in the Sky was goal # 17 on my list of Q1 goals in the globally hosted finish along.