Just a few more butterflies to finish up this week. Then I'll move on to fish and elephants and circus animals - and more! This butterfly quilt was made using my Cookie Cutter technique. This is raw edge appliqué and is constructed in half blocks. I made this almost 20 years ago using an Ana Griffin collection. Romantic Butterflies : 38" x 40" Then I have log cabin blocks that have morphed into butterflies. I used the Curvy Log Cabin ruler by Jean Ann Wright to make these. The blocks are 6" square. Three log cabin blocks plus a plain square morph into a butterfly. I loved making this quilt and I even made 18 more blocks that are sitting here, waiting for someone to buy them! Here's a single block. Single Butterfly block: 12" x 12"  Here's the quilt I made. Sunshine Butterflies. 47" x 47" And one made in brighter colors: Sunshine Butterflies by the Quilting Divas Sewing Boutique And, if you love the blocks and don't want to piece them, ...

Time for butterflies! You've seen many of these before. Who doesn't love the beauty and grace of a butterfly in flight?! Here's a recent one I made from a vintage butterfly pattern. I've made it several times. First the blocks, which I made in 2016. I used some browns from my Kaffe Fassett collection. Four Butterfly blocks: 10" x 10" Then I finally put them into a quilt and quilted it last year. I call it "Taking Flight." Taking Flight : 40" x 40" I also made it a few years ago and donated it to a local children's charity: Four more butterflies ! And a single butterfly up close: And one more using this butterfly appliqué pattern. This was made with the Painted Wings Collection by Windham Fabrics. Also donated to a local children's charity. Four butterfly blocks in happy colors! I used butterflies in this next quilt I designed for Windham Fabrics and sold as a kit in the Keepsake Quilting Catalog. I call it Audrey's Garden (my ol...

I've had a presence on the internet for 25 years - yes, I have! I was one of the first professional quilters to offer patterns and tutorials, much of it connected with my 1,000+ articles published in Quilt Magazine. Try to wrap your head around that one - I certainly can't! I am slowly migrating my free patterns and tutorials over to a more manageable site, so if you find broken links with free patterns, this is why. But I thought I'd share a blast from the past with my Easy Piecing Dresdens . This is old-school, so try not to laugh at the graphics. But this is the way we had to do things in the Wild West of code-ville back in the mid 1990s. The blocks are 12" in the online version. Dresden Plates have many renditions. This pattern is for one using a 30 degree template. That translates to 12 wedges for each circle. Think of the math: 30 x 12 = 360 (the degrees in a circle) Here's one recent 10" block that I auditioned two different ways. These are the ...