Far East Mini Quilt



This year's quilt guild challenge was to make a quilt that had butterflies in it. I went through my stash and found I had a number of butterfly fabrics. Opted for the cream/cream subtle one and then looked around to see what fabrics I could throw in with it. Decided upon some Australian aboriginal printed fabric with flying squirrels. It's the dark brown one. You can't see a whole squirrel in any of the pieces but they're flying around through the fabric there. It's also backed in that fabric. Also went with some green tiger fabric, some red plum blossom fabric (always auspicious) and some orange flowered fabric. The pattern was inspired by a quilt in the book, "Bits and Pieces, 18 Small Quilts from Fat Quarters and Scraps", by Karen Costello Soltys. I shrunk it down to 11" x 14". Something very pleasing about putting together small patchworks.