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Oh the summer heat...I was waiting to get my craft room back after a long while (family was staying with us for an extended period of time) and had to resort to doing my crafting/quilting at the kitchen table.  UGH!!!  So gross! My bottom stuck to the chair and my sweat cascaded down the backs of my legs is NOT the way I like to do make a quilt. FINALLY I am back in my nice air-conditioned craft room and I can do some work! At the beginning of the summer (before it became unbearable) I had won my guild's block lotto and took home all these wonderfully colourful blocks!
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 We used the Butterfly Strands block from Fresh Lemon's site.  The challenge was to make 2 blocks; one finished at 8.25" and the smaller one finished at 5.5".   For the bigger blocks, I used the same idea for placement as the Butterfly Strands block from the website. For the little ones, I added some sashing around units to make the finished block the same size as the bigger Butterfly Strand blocks.  After it was all put together I thought there was a bit too much solid white fabric throughout so I snowballed the corners on the smaller Butterfly Strand blocks which was neat because it made smaller "butterflies" going the other direction!!! I had a good amount of blocks that were made and entered into the draw by the guild and only had to make 5 big and 5 little blocks, so that made for a super easy and fast quilt! Â
My daughter couldn't wait for it to be finished, she wanted to sleep with just the quilt top. AND! Â It wasn't too hot this morning outside so we went out for a bit of a play and I asked my super helper to hold up and pose with the finished quilt!
Beautiful Princess Smile
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Not so beautiful "Stinky Smile"
I had SOOO much fun making this quilt and would recommend it to anyone who has lots for scraps that they need to use up. Â A great scrap buster for sure! - Alicia