I’ve had this quilt in progress since last August. The jelly roll I found went nicely with a butterfly panel plucked from the rehome table at guild that I planned to cut apart. I thought it would be the perfect pairing for a Spotlight Pattern quilt. This quilt is available for purchase, skip to the end if you are interested.

I pulled some sets of strips and began sewing them together.

Then I cut the butterfly motifs apart. At this point, I realized that the butterflies would not trim to the size in the pattern. So, I set them aside, and got busy with other projects as I was under deadline for the fair. I so rarely have UFOs that I actually forgot about this one.

This past week as I was putting things away from the show and cleaning up the sewing space, I found the project bag and decided I needed to figure out how to handle them. The solution wasn’t hard, I framed them with a cream tone on tone and squared them up to a larger size that would work with the strips.

I sewed the strip sets, and put the butterflies on the strips to figure out the best placement taking into account the background colors on the panels.

Then I sewed the panels into the strips, and sewed the strips together.

The edges are trimmed to a straight edge taking off the selvedges. All assembled and ready to quilt.

In my stash, I found a partial bolt of the perfect print for backing. This purple floral goes well with the colors in the jelly roll, even though it isn’t the same line.

I pieced the backing with a wide center seam, cut away the selvedges in the seam and pressed it open. The quilt was loaded with cotton batting from Warm and Natural.

I decided on a swirly pantograph instead of the intense custom quilting I did on the bird quilt. The top thread is a gold Glide, with an ecru Bottom Line in the bobbin.

I like the bit of shimmer it gives to the quilt. It adds a bit of pattern to the frames around the butterflies and blends nicely in the strips.

Quilting went fast. Now trimmed up, it is ready for binding.

I used the scraps from the backing to make the binding. I put this on in the usual way sewing the binding to the top side, and hand stitching to the back. I enjoy this hand work, and finished it this past weekend.

The soft colors and pretty butterflies would make a perfect gift for a daughter or granddaughter.

This quilt is for sale, $75 with shipping included, just let me know if you are interested.

The other Spotlight quilt with birds and custom quilting is also available. It has embroidered birds, and intense custom quilting with ruler work and freehand feathers in the strips. $125 includes shipping.

Close up shots of the Spotlight Birds quilt and a few other items still available can be seen on my Sample Sale post. The Spotlight pattern is available on My Patterns page for just $6.

Are you interested in one of these quilts? Do you have a jelly roll that wants to be sewn into a quilt?

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