Butterfly Quiltlet Done

I finished off stitching the butterfly and its background during the week. My foot for FM is not as good as the one on the Bernina that I was using at Road, but I made do...Cut out the butterfly from the background and soaked off the Solvy and the interfacing..Soaked off the Solvy on the background piece too.

Here is what they looked like before I got to work on them yesterday:

 Now...if I were making something that looked like the teachers - this is where I would have started quilting. For reference...this is Nancy's butterfly:

But...I am ornery and thought that the thread sketching should have color and so..I got out my Inktense pencils and colored away! Here's what it looked like when I was done coloring - before quilting:

I added wool batting..probably should have picked a thinner batting..but I wanted the puff in the flower and leaves - it almost is like trapunto.. Was going to bring the green backing to the front but...that just did not want to work..so I cut the green off and it was just long enough to make a binding. My poor hopping foot got stuck when I was stitching the butterfly to the base and partially cracked - it probably can be repaired with plastic glue...but for now..its out of commission...sigh...

Here is the finished piece:

I like it!

Paducah Museum Shirt Refashion

We went to the National Quilt Museum in Paducah for our anniversary last August...Beautiful  place!

Enjoyed all the quilts. Outside of the Museum, there is a river flood wall that is decorated. That was fascinating too!

 

One of the things I got at the Museum was a lovely T-shirt..I bought it big since I hate T-shirts that hug my posterior.

It's pretty shapeless too.. but I loved the design on the front and over the print there is shiny gold! (hard to see in the pictures..but it shines!)

After taking the Double Gauze shirt class at Road, I was inspired to do some 'refashioning' so...out came the shears! I cut up the sides, took the sleeves off and laid the Scout Tee pattern onto the remains...and came to the immediate reckoning that the Scout Tee was NOT going to work! It's a bit wider than the fabric...after a few hours of kicking my backside for ruining at perfectly good T-shirt...I decided to take the one I was wearing in the picture above and see if that would fit..I like that shirt a lot and like how it fits! So..onto the ironing board and voila'...it fit onto the Paducah shirt. Marked it...cut it out - almost 5 inched in length removed too - cut a wee bit off the sides of the sleeves to fit the new armcyce  -  stitched the sleeves on and seamed down the sides.. I kept the shoulder seams, the neckline (though I may not keep that long term!) and the sleeve hems. The bottom is dished like the one above.
So..now the Paducah Museum shirt fits!

It will be making its first appearance at Retreat next week!