Butterfly quilt blocks

While resting my foot I decided I would check out my butterfly blocks to see how many more I will need. The pattern I am using had a finished quilt size of 44 x 55 but I want a king size quilt approximately 109 inches by 109 inches, so I know I need a lot more than 18 butterflies. But just how many do I need?



The butterflies all still need little black bodies but I decided to do the bodies after I have all of the blocks completed. This isn't the final location for each butterfly, just a way to see how many I need. Well, it looks like I need 145 butterflies total, I have 106 ready for bodies so I'm very close. :)

Thanks again to all of you who helped by sending fabrics!!  I have managed to keep it to where there are only 1 or 2 butterflies of each fabric - except one of the first ones I cut, there are 3 of it, lol.

Swallowtail Macro Monday

While doing some yard work I met a new friend. :0)

It was a much luckier swallowtail than the one I saw in Missouri a few months ago.

My granddaughter thinks they're fun to step on. :(

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Ice Butterfly

It was really neat watching this lady carve a butterfly.  She used a regular old iron to smooth the ice and make it clear and smooth.  Very neat!

More Butterflies :0)

I have been very lax about sharing my other butterfly quilt blocks. Life has been busy and I've been having a hard time blogging. I've been a little sad as my grandchildren moved away - I miss them terribly! Husband has been trying to keep me busy and distracted from missing them but I've still lacked the motivation to do too much. The weather has been very weird, unusually warm, and pulling me outside. I had my check up with the oncologist and the xrays and blood looked good - still no recurrence. I've been feeling the urge to share more, and got tagged in a meme, so hopefully I'll find the motivation to actually build the posts. :0) How are you all?



Ida sent me a lovely swatch of checkered hearts - she must have know how I love hearts!  Thanx again Ida!  (PS, the butterflies do get appliquéd bodies - I think they'll look much better then.



Karmyn sent these fun prints!  (Sorry I guess the phone wiggled a bit as I snapped)  Meow!



Judy sent these wonderful fabrics!  Sorry again for my wiggle phone - I must have been more tired than I realized when I snapped these.

Thank you SO much ladies!  I am so excited to see this whole project come together!  I have some awesome friends who have helped bring it. :)

Butterfly Project

A few weeks back I asked for some help with my butterfly quilt.  Nearly immediately I had two people send wonderful fabrics!



My friend, Amy, sent these fabrics and I made two butterflies out of each fabric.  Aren't they wonderful?!  Especially fun to have a monarch wing print to make wings, lol.



My friend, Jan (author of many blogs, but I think you can access them all from the one linked to her name) sent these gorgeous additions.  Wouldn't mind finding a leopard winged butterfly out in the wild, lol.  I also made two from each fabric here, the little circles inside square fabric is now put together, lol.  All butterflies will have black appliquéd bodies eventually.

I have received a few other fabrics and will be posting them later.

Thank you ladies!!! :0)

 

Clearly Macro Monday

I just remembered I had these sitting in a file on my computer. This past summer, I found this fellow sitting on the bubbles in my kitchen sink. I plucked him out and snapped some photos. :0) Unfortunately, I think the bubbles did him in. :0(

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Macro Monday Me

Do you know how hard it is for a right-handed person to take a photo of their own right wrist? lol So, this is my butterfly number 5, representing surviving the first 5 years after cancer treatment. My friend Leanne designed it for me, she's awesome! There is a "5" in it, see it? Before taking this photo I didn't realize it's still peeling, lol. Macros are fun!



This is my survivor's tattoo. The Chinese symbol stands for "to live" or "to survive", to do "survivor" would have been three symbols. From there I'm adding a butterfly for each year of survival, and a little blue star for each year of marriage. I'm now up to 5 butterflies and 8 stars - these 2 anniversaries are 1 day apart so it makes it easy to do.



See that's how it's all together. I think I need some dots from the little butterfly to the big one to help tie them together more, and I'm thinking about a little scrolly thing at the head of the big one to kinda finish it off. From now on the small butterflies will be added to the other side, spiraling up my arm. Heck, even if I live to 90 I don't think it'll reach my elbow. Can you imagine a 90 year old lady going into a tattoo parlor!? lol

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I think I see a heart in this rock, and that's one of my favorite shapes!

Ewwwww

My son found this dead fish. Ewwwwww!



Drippingly gross! Of course the guys thought it warranted a photo or two, lol. I decided to share when I saw how pretty the colors are. I mean, really, look past what it is and see the pretty colors involved. :0)



Better? A dime-sized flutterer.

We were not alone

We were in the middle of absolutely nowhere, not a car in sight, but we weren't alone.

No matter where we go we cannot ever, ever, get away from chipmunks! sigh

Macro sooc #23

This is the same deceased butterfly I shared recently. I was able to pose him on the plant and take a quick pic.  Then I lengthened the exposure and we're able to see the hairs on his wings.  The wind was blowing mightily so we can see more of the flower in the first shot, and I did move slightly, but close to the same view.

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Yellow and Orange

I chased this little fellow from flower to flower. I was surprised to see him here so late in the season. I took these in late October.

I was entranced by all the pollen on his legs.

Poor little fellow. :( It did make him more cooperative though.

Glitter Wings Macro Monday

My son brought me this beautiful butterfly, back when it was warmer, it was barely moving at all, we're not sure what happened to it. On the right you can see my fingerprint on its wing.

Its movelessness (yep, just made that up) made it to where I could really study it.  I saw fine hairs along the edges of its wings and colored glitter in patterns.

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I think the colors look like little pixels on a computer screen.

Experiment sooc #22

I know that I did not edit the top photo, but to be real honest I don't remember if I did the bottom one. These have been sitting in a folder for some time.

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My question to you (be honest please) - Did you notice that the butterfly was dead?  I plucked him off the grill of my husband's van and posed him.  For the second shot I had to pluck off two of his crackly wings - I still felt (feel) guilty about it. :(