This little butterfly was designed with one specific task in mind: to use up even my smallest scraps of Liberty Tana lawn.
The butterfly finishes at about 9″ x 12″ when printed out at 100%. For my purpose, however, I printed it out at 75% as I wanted to make sure I could use up even the tiniest of those blue and green scraps. The antennae are free motion quilted in a variegated Aurifil 40wt (no 4669) which I bought to quilt my Churn Dash quilt. The butterfly itself was pieced with Aurifil 50wt (no 2000) which is a perfect match to many of the Liberty lawns. I appliquéd it onto a red cotton/linen fabric that I’ve had in my stash for a few years. I auditioned different colours for the background but found it nicest on the red. Funnily enough, when I popped it onto some white, the butterfly looked really washed out.
All of the Liberty lawns came from Ali’s shop Very Berry Fabrics on Folksy and I already have plans to buy more (don’t tell my bank account, I can already hear it groan) as Ali sent me some scraps with my last order and I’ve completely fallen in love with one of them. Sadly she doesn’t seem to have any in her shop at the moment but you can be sure that I will be stalking her in the next few weeks.
This is my third finish for Q1 of the FAL and I’m very happy about that. I really would like to make one of these butterflies in solids as I think it would look stunning in a rainbow of colours too but I’m going to be good and continue with my list before starting something new.
So far, I’ve made my EPP patterns available for free and I want to do this with my last two, Butterfly and Liberty Bloom, too. They just need a little more work before I can upload them to the blog. Hopefully, they should be done by the end of this week. Afterwards, however, I’m thinking of opening a shop on Craftsy or Etsy and asking for a small contribution for my patterns. What do you think? Would you pay a couple of pounds for my EPP patterns?
The red background really shows off the butterfly to full advantage. I think that opening a Craftsy/Etsy shop is a good idea as your designs are very bespoke. Di x
I think you should give it a try. Nothing ventured nothing gained! I need pattern writers as I can’t do them myself!!
I can also see you doing it as a crazy quilt with it being embellished!!
Definitely worth opening a Craftsy store or Etsy store. My butterfly is my most popular pattern by far and I’m guessing that yours will go down a treat too! I have had the craftsy store for a while and have just added an etsy one too. I opened the etsy store is for those who don’t want to sign up for Craftsy. It has listing charges attached to it (craftsy doesn’t) so I’m giving it a go for the time being using some free listing that I got. So far I’ve had more sales on craftsy but as I say I’m keeping an open mind!