Hendes Verden - Her World

Mini Butterfly Pillow Cushion

Working through my UFO/WIPs for January and it seemed like time to finish this project I started back in December 2012!  Way back then I pattern tested an FPP butterfly 6" block for Juliet @The Tartankiwi and said I'd make it into a cushion to sell alongside a matching baby quilt in my soon-to-be Etsy shop.  The quilt was already made but the cushion and the Etsy shop have never materialised, until now!!!

Multicoloured Moods Cushion - A Butterfly's Transformation!

Love is like a butterfly as soft and gentle as a sigh

The multicoloured moods of love are like its satin wings.

Dolly Parton                                      

Cast your mind back to November 2012 - I know it's a looong time ago quite possibly before you started following my blog but way way back then I did my first ever foundation paper piecing pattern test for Juliet @The Tartankiwi.

I love this 12.5" butterfly block so much and though I had plans for making it larger using this Kaffe Fassett fabric I just never got round to it.  If you want to read my original post you'll find it here and the butterfly pattern is available to purchase here.

Fast forward 2.5 years and I've finally done something with it, which is only what it deserves.  Pulling it from my WIP pile and I realised I no longer liked the Kaffe Fassett Shirt Stripes with it - it seemed to deaden the colours so I opted for bordering with the same green solid I used for the butterfly body and adding this vibrant Kaffe Fassett grape spot instead.  

After adding the borders I created a quilt sandwich and fmq'd the piece

You can see more fmq detail here on the muslin backing.

Thread: 

Aurifil 40 wt

1135 - Pale Yellow

2423 - Baby Pink

1147 - Light Leaf Green

2588 - Light Magenta

Then I chose two fabrics and a zipper to create a cushion back.

Fabrics:
A selection of solids - see my original post for full details of brands and colours used

Kaffe Fassett Spot in Grape by Westminster Fabrics

Belle Epoch by Kaffe Fassett for Westminster Fabrics

Clown Stripe by Michael Miller Fabrics

 And finally my foundation paper pieced butterfly block is transformed into 

my Multicoloured Moods cushion.

This is a variation on my hidden zipper cushion cover tutorial - this is the type of hidden zipper I teach in my classes but you'll find my original hidden zipper tute here if you want to make one yourself. 

And where's the cushion now?  On Flicky's bed of course - one of these days I'll get to keep something I make for myself!!!  I'm not complaining really, it's fab to have her home for the summer, can you believe she's been living in Scotland for two years now and about to go into her third year at St Andrews University?  If you're new to the blog you might want to have a look around St Andrews I did a couple of blog posts here and here when she first started there.

So that's my butterfly's transformation - what would you make with this butterfly block?

Featured On:

Clicking on a image will take you to a new page of crafty goodness :)
 

Will You Walk A Little Faster?

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail,
"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.

The Mock Turtle's Song, Lewis Carroll

  

Juliet from The Tartankiwi asked me to test another one of her fabulous Foundation Paper Piecing patterns, remember the 2 butterfly patterns and the heart pattern that I've tested before?

12" Butterfly - 5" Butterfly - 7" Heart

This time, it's a wonderful snail pattern.

What a great opportunity to use a fabric I've had stashed away - Tree Rings (Grey) by Martha Negley for Rowan Fabrics, it reminded me of snails crawling over our wood pile in our garden in England.

I miss our garden but I don't miss looking after it!  Here's a picture of one of my favourite areas in our garden

And here's another couple of photos of the finished block.  

I used Kona Tangerine to define the shell and also to make the red berries pop on the Tree Rings fabric, and I've managed to incorporate some of my favourite lime green to make those colours sing.  

I have an idea to include this block in a baby/child's quilt and I'll be adding a face to the snail but I want a bit longer to play around with expressions before committing to one.

The block measures 12" finished and Juliet will be putting the pattern out via her blog when all the testing is completed.

Here's a look back at the patterns I've previously tested for Juliet.

Click any of the images below to go through to my post about testing that particular pattern:

  
 
 

Disclosure: I do not receive payment from Juliet @TheTartankiwi for testing her patterns, nor do I receive a commission on any patterns sold via her Etsy store or any other sales method.  This post is purely informational and of no direct benefit, monetary or otherwise, to me.

Clicking on an image will take you to a new page of crafty goodness :)

Disclosure: 

This post contains a Craftsy affiliate banner for which I am paid commission on click-through purchases. Otherwise, no payment or commission is received for click-throughs to shared links; the post is for informational purposes only and all opinions are my own.

Copyright: 

Uncredited reproduction of all content, text and images on this site is prohibited. All content, text and images must be credited to Chris Dodsley @made by ChrissieD and include a link back to this site.

Follow

Linky Parties This post may be linked to some great Linky Parties, always a great source of inspiration too. If you click through to my 'Fave Linky Parties' page you can see where I like to share my work.

5" Paper Pieced Butterfly Pattern Is Now Available

Remember this from last week?

Well Juliet has published the pattern now on her blog along with her equally fab paper pieced ladybird pattern which has been tested by Pam at Threading My Way.

Get over there now and download them, you know you want to!!!

5" Paper Pieced Butterfly and Ladybird patterns

Juliet @ Tartankiwi 

Updated 12.41 pm, 2 May 2014

I do not receive payment from Juliet @Tartankiwi for testing her patterns, nor do I receive a commission on any patterns sold via her Craftsy page or any other sales method.  This post is purely informational and of no direct benefit, monetary or otherwise, to me.

Related Posts:
A Baby Sized Paper Pieced Butterfly