Butterfly Round Robin

From this:

To this:

Isn’t it gorgeous! And I have my two friends, Shannon and Dory, to thank.  Each added a border to my center applique block. To read my original post on how this round robin came to be...read APQS forum friends meet!

Shannon added the curved pieced border…it keeps the quilt ‘soft’ in my opinion. Reminds me of a pagoda.

Dory then added a piano key border with half square triangles in the corners.

I love it!

Please read Shannon’s post…pieceful kwilter: butterfly round robin
And Dory's post...crazy horse quilting: butterfly round robin

NOW..to get busy and decide what kind of border to add next. I really want to add to this quilt and make it larger. I am thinking more curved piecing…and definitely more applique! After all…my quilt should have a frog and a cute bug on it. Get it? Butterfly for Dory…Frog for me…Doodlebug for Shannon. Then it will be complete.

Thanks ladies…I love my quilt top and can’t wait to get it finished so that I can quilt it and hang it in my studio to remind me how special you both are!

Here are the pictures of Dory’s and Shannon’s quilts.
 
I added the string pieced border to Dory’s (left) and a piano key border to Shannon’s (right).

Helping out!

A friend of ours had her fourth baby..and ended up back in the hospital with an infection. She entrusted us with her 10 day old newborn. He is so precious and such a good baby. We took care of him for 5 days. What an honor and a privilege to have had JG for the past few days! He is certainly a keeper!

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I realized one thing…it sure it nice to no longer have any children in diapers! Although, if the opportunity arose to help out again…we certainly would! We had a great time with a little one in the house!

APQS forum friends meet!!

Me, Shannon (doodlebug) and Dory in California in Dory's quilting studio. We met online through the APQS forum...and finally met face to face.
We had a great time together. We quilted, appliqued, laughed, shopped, laughed some more. And learned from each other I think...at least I learned from them! Thanks ladies, it was wonderful getting to finally
'see' you. ;)











The butterfly applique block was designed by Shannon. All three of us chose fabrics and are making this block. Mine is done except for the leaves. We are going to do a round robin with these blocks and then quilt the finished tops into wall hangings and have a rememberance of our time together!