Butterfly Quilt WIP

A couple of weeks ago I was browsing around Pinterst looking for quilt ideas.  There was one quilt that stopped me in my tracks.  This butterfly quilt is just beautiful. Now I am not a girly girl nor do I have any girls, but I wanted to make something pretty.

I had some girlie fabric by Art Gallery called Sugar.  Now onto the butterflies.  I checked out my collection of Cricut cartridges.  I found two that I liked from Serenade and Wall Décor and More.

After deciding on the butterflies, I prepped my fabric.  I used Heat & Bond fusible webbing.  Then I ironed the Heat & Bond to the fabric as suggested on the packaging.  Next I placed it on my cutting mat fabric side upward.  I have seen it cut with the paper side of the Heat & Bond facing up.  Both ways have worked for me. 

Once the butterflies were cut, I pinned them to the background fabric (in this case it was a white sheet).  When I had the butterflies placed to my liking I then ironed the butterflies to my white fabric/sheet.  Then came the labor intensive part,  zig-zag stitching onto the background fabric.  It took me a couple of hours to do all of the butterflies (I added more since this picture was taken). 

Next, I will be sandwiching all the layers together.  Hopefully I will have this quilt done in the next few weeks.

Lacrosse Quilt Finished!

Last year I started a lacrosse quilt and finally finished it.  I finished it in time to donate it to the High School Boys Lacrosse fundraiser.

Now that I gave away my lacrosse quilt, I decided to work on another one.  I scoured Pinterest for ideas.  I came across some T-shirt quilt styles. Once I found the layout I liked I got working on drawing my layout.  I did not include one T-shirt (my boys are still wearing their shirts).

I used my Cricut to cut out the helmet, owl head, crossing lacrosse sticks and jersey numbers.  I downloaded Team Spirit for the helmet, owl head and lacrosse sticks.  For the jersey number I downloaded Varsity letter font.  Next, I appliqued them onto the fabric.  Once I finished sewing the top together, I thought about how I wanted to quilt it to the back fabric.

My friend Melissa and I are always talking about quilting or cooking.  One day we were talking about Free Motion Quilting and that is what I decided to do.  I had to order my Free Motion quilting/darning foot for my  machine.  Surprisingly, I received it a couple days after ordering.  Then I did a couple of test runs.  I knew I would need more practice, but what better way to get that practice than quilting the actual quilt.

Okay, so I need more practice.  I know I do.  However, I have very happy with the way this quilt came out.

Here is a close up of the FMQ.

Now I am off to work on some tote bags and a baby rag quilt.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!