Deb's Antique Butterfly quilt
As promised, here’s the completed quilt picture! The binding is black Kona cotton which accents the black butterfly bodies. The quilt is larger than my hanging space! As I worked on this, I picked out my favorite butterfly fabrics. Here’s one of my favorites.
Double 4 Patch
I love how Candy of Double Nickel Quilt Challenge keeps creating quilts that are fun to quilt! She’s challenged me to use different approaches that compliment the quilt without being heavily quilted. While a pantograph would have been okay for this quilt, I really felt that would take away from the secondary pattern of the block set. I decided to do a type of Terry Twist continuous curve with an added line through the middle in each block and small 4 patch block.
Terry Twist Plus
As you can see it creates it’s own secondary patterns which give texture and movement. I wanted to keep the pattern going into the border so I just imagined that the border was a block and continued the pattern. Let me know what you think!
Border detail
The batting is Quilter’s Dream Poly select and the thread is OMNI by Superior Threads.
I decided to use flowers, hearts and loops in the pink areas, a whimsical flower in each white cornerstone, a small meander in the butterfly background and a couple loops through the wings. I did not stitch through the polyester double knit butterfly bodies. The pictures below show before and after pictures of the quilt when it’s on the frame. The dense stitching flattened the puckered areas beautifully! I was very happy about that! The batting is Quilter’s Dream Poly and the thread is a white PermaCore. Here’s a link to Part I of this quilting story.
blocks quilted, sashing to be quilted
View of sashing row to be quilted
Detail of sashing area after quilting
View of sashing row after quilting
Here’s a quilt by Candy showing the breakdown of the quilting pattern, corner, middle, corner, middle (c, m, c, m). The first time I used this design on one of Candy’s quilts a few years ago, I loved it and wanted to do it again! In fact, I made 2 of my Bucket List quilts just so I could quilt this design again! When she brought me this quilt, we both knew it would be a good design for all these triangles!
The One block photo shows the stitching sequence – c, m, c, m – until you are back where you started. And yes, you must say those words as you stitch, “corner, middle, corner, middle”! The block is about 8″ and I use a ruler, stopping at each corner to reposition the ruler with the needle down.
The Four block photo shows the secondary pattern starting to emerge. This is where I start the stitching, in the center of four blocks. I can stitch out four blocks before having to break my thread.
The Partial and Whole quilt photos show the secondary pattern that is created with the “stars”. Isn’t that awesome?! This design works well in cornerstones and blocks when they are separated by sashings but I love it when they are all together creating another design.
The batting is Quilter’s Dream Poly select and the thread is OMNI by Superior Threads.
Number 401!
I tallied my quilts to date through August and Agnes’ quilt was number 401! That’s pretty exciting! Thank you to everyone who partnered with me to help finish their quilts and projects. I’m looking forward to 400 more! Agnes’ quilt has Hobbs Heirloom wool batting which makes this very large quilt soft, cuddly and surprising light.
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