It is raining again! Lake Lanier is full. It is cold and less than one week till Christmas. I am not ready for Christmas and truthfully I am not surprised one bit that I am not ready! We have done this crazy routine every year for 32 years now.I start asking the kids what they want for Christmas when the leaves start falling and by the week before they still don't know. I then get desperate and threaten to go out and buy them all surprises!
This gets them to thinking because they know I am really bad at shopping. So, while I wait for their frantic "this is what I want" emails....I have decided to think about spring this morning and post about my Butterfly Quilt!
The picture above is the back of my quilt and how much quilting went into this baby...around and around many many times...I start to feel dizzy inside just thinking about stitching my way around it again.
Truth is I started with the back of my quilt because I don't know how to change the order of my pictures without deleting them all and starting over, and I still have to wash my hair before I go into work at noon! =) I work at the local quilt shop, did I tell you that? It is for me like working in a candy store is to a kid!!! Whoot...whoot...love it!!!
Spring is such a wonderful time of year and love is in the air so it was perfect for my first try at freehand hearts all around the border. I love the color blue and listening to the blues just in case your interested! hahaa
Spring is here! Spring is here! Spring is here! Those are the words of my first and only stage performance when I was in second grade. I came out on the stage in my frog costume jumping as high as my legs would let me singing "spring is here" three long jumps and three ear piercing shouts. But I would have preferred to be a beautiful butterfly and float gracefully out onto the stage with huge periwinkle colored wings! Ummm, anyone who truly knows me knows the frog is more my style, and I can not sing to save my life!
How about this beautiful pink butterfly? I figured since I was creating these 3D embroidered beauties I could make them sing with shine and color~~~See the glitter on the antenna??? Yep, I Bejewelled her with my handy dandy Bejeweler I got at the Sewing Expo a few years ago. In case your interested I am including a link to two different kinds of jewelers.https://www.mybedazzler.com/Default.aspx?MID=528183
and this is the hot fix tool for glitz I have used many times when the mood for bling bling grabs me....thanks Sue!
http://www.suessparklers.com/?gclid=CLP63vCR4J4CFQKdnAodtDRHJA
This pretty pastel butterfly is my favorite with her lavender, and pinks!! Spring is a glittery time of year with the spring rains and dew on the leaves right?
Can you just smell the freshness in the air with spring just around the corner...naaaa, I didn't think so with all the pine and cinnamon candles and frosty the snow man playing on the radio. 
Last but not least this is my Spring Quilt that my sweet hubby refers to as alien eyes! Yep, he said it made him think of alien eyes.
This pretty pastel butterfly is my favorite with her lavender, and pinks!! Spring is a glittery time of year with the spring rains and dew on the leaves right?
Can you just smell the freshness in the air with spring just around the corner...naaaa, I didn't think so with all the pine and cinnamon candles and frosty the snow man playing on the radio. Know what Christmas song gets to me every year? The one with the line, "It's the most wonderful time of the year!" Oh, ya...then why do I see so many mom's with that cruel mouth expression, frustrated as they are dragging around their way over due for a nap kids, who are crying their eyes out on isle 5 or 6 in every store!!! "Its the most wonderful time of the yearrrr"....umm, really?....do you see this oh so sad scene come SPRING on isle 5 or 6 of every store you go in?
Last but not least this is my Spring Quilt that my sweet hubby refers to as alien eyes! Yep, he said it made him think of alien eyes. Do you know how many hours went into this quilt? Wish I had kept a count of my amount of time I spent just dreaming up this quilt. She started out as a challenge quilt with the Quilters N Stitches guild. We were given the back ground fabric and told to create something with it. This is my first challenge quilt and probably my last too. I mulled over fabric for weeks and months as I searched in stores and my stash for just the right colors and once I started I sewed on this baby for months.
Alien eyes??? Oh, well....I get the tingle for spring down my spine with the scent of sweet daffodils ever time I look at it or is that the tingle from space creatures eye-ing my artwork~~~~
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