Vintage butterfly quilt

Stunning vintage butterfly quilthand sewnGorgeous colors and fabricsVery very good condition. Two very very light stains that won't photograph and one small spot (see last photo) from

Firstly, thank you to everyone who sent kind messages about my flu. There seems to be a lot of sickness in blogland at the moment. I'm feeli...

The past several days brought the Vintage Applique Butterfly quilt started by my Great-grandmother, Mina Opal, to a completed top. As I picked apart the previous setting, I noticed that there were …

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Welcome to this Friday’s VTNS Fan Freebie! It never ceases to amaze me what I find when I turn to my 1930's quilt scrapbook. Today I'm celebrating Summertime with a pretty 1931 June Butterfly quilt

We all inherited quilts from my grandmother as we reached adulthood or a reasonable facsimile thereof, there being several of us in my generation who do not consider ourselves to be actual grown-ups even yet. Most of these quilts were made in the 1930s and 1940s, when my great-grandmother was alive and well and had her quilting frames available. These were rigged on a pulley system so that they could be stored at ceiling level when they were not in use. Gran Brooks pieced by hand or machine…

Try making some of these butterfly quilt patterns to brighten the days until it is warm enough for the real ones to be fluttering about outside!

Working towards a finish, in the picture above you can see that I have attached (by machine) all the vines, the leaves, the yo-yo’s and the two vintage ribbon bows. This is the top of the quilt as I began to shape the ribbon streamers. And this is how it looks with the ribbon machine…

Make this butterfly quilt pattern in a day using fusible shapes and quick machine applique'. It is a great project for a baby quilt or wall hanging.

Finished Quilt Size: 66 1/2" x 78" Fabric Requirements: Red Signs: 5/8 yd Red Plaid: 3/8 yd Red Feathers: 1/4 yd Blue Plaid: 1 1/2 yds ( includes binding) Blue Tossed Flowers: 3/8 yd Cream Plaid: 3/8 yd Cream Tossed Flowers: 5/8 yd Blue Cherries: 1/4 yd Red Tossed Flowers: 3/8 yd Peach Cherries: 1/4 yd Cream Feathers: