Pink Butterflies and a Finish

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge colour for April is pink.  So I’ve been stitching up a “kaleidoscope” of butterflies – I kid you not, this is one of the names for a group of butterflies.  Another name is a “flutter”, easy to see why they are called this name too.  First up was my four patch blocks with a centre cross, using up several small strips of multi coloured butterflies on white backgrounds.  In fact, I’ve used the very last piece of one of the strips, and had to piece the last remaining scraps together to make the 4 inch squares needed. Then I made two Puss in the Corner blocks for my second butterfly RSC project.

Pink butterflies

It’s always nice to have a finish – I stitched the RSC blocks last year and this had been waiting in the wings a while with just the borders needing quilting, and the binding to be applied.  It's finally finished, and I enjoyed stitching  the binding down on my boat quilt outside in the warm Autumn sunshine.  For the first time I used some of those clips on the binding (what are they called?) instead of pins. 

Stitching the binding down

My daughter gave me this cute little box some time ago, so I’m pleased to find a use for it, to safely store my fancy new clips in it. 

My pretty box of clips

And the finished boat quilt – I’m really pleased how it turned out.  The boats were my own design, using 2 1/2inch strips, and as it evolved I added some South Sea islands, whale tails and dolphins.  This will be donated to Foster Hope, a charily which looks after children taken into foster care.

Boat quilt for a boy

The backing fabric came from the big box of fabric I received when my neighbour Dorothy went into a rest home.  It is a piece of curtain fabric, I think.  The island theme on this fabric works in quite well with the boats on the front, I feel.

And the back