Birds & Butterflies

Playing with scarps is always fun but playing playing with someone else's scraps is even more fun!  A woman I knew from Project Linus who lives in an adjacent neighborhood to mine contacted me over the summer.  She was sorting through her fabric and had a bag full of novelty fabrics & scraps that she thought I might be interested in, seeing how much I love novelty fabric.  It was a treasure trove!

My guild's philanthropy project this year is quilts for kids ages 2-5 who get meals as part of Friendship Trays, a local Meals-on-Wheels type organization.   I've been through the bag of scraps from Mary several times and one time, a fun bird print really stood out to me.  I had also been admiring a print with red butterflies.  Turns out there was a second butterfly print, this one on a red background.  I thought all three would go together.  In all cases, I had width of fabric though not a lot.  I figured out how to maximize what I had and get a good sized quilt.  For all three of these fabrics, I used it all!

 

two butterfly fabrics

Also in the bag was a red print with hearts which I thought would make a nice binding.  I believe I used all of it as well.  So four fabrics used up and one fun kid's quilt! The back is a fabric I had, a flannel ladybug print.  I don't use flannel often but I loved sewing on the binding, the needle would glide right through it! 

backing and binding

My guild met in person for the first time today, outside, in a parking lot.  It was so nice to see people in person--it was most social I've been in 7 months!  We all wore masks and everyone brought camp chairs and the weather was beautiful.  So I was able to turn this in to our president in person. She says we are getting close to our goal of 200 quilts!

bird print from the center