Sew and Tell Friday - A Near Finish!!

Hi, all!

Well, I had to take the picture of my Friday finish before I actually finished it - the weather was closing in here in Tennessee and I had to take advantage of the sunshine while I had it!  It will be finished tonight, for sure - I've only got to hand-stitch the binding and it will be done.

I love this pattern - learned it from Quilts For Kids - but this time I took some inspiration from a recent quit magazine and added the butterfly applique.  And here's the back:

  I put another one of the butterflies on the back and just love it!    Both butterflies are outlined in black baby rick-rack (more handstitching!) and I think they came out really well.

I stitched around each butterfly, and then quilted up to the butterfly stitching all around.  I like the way it makes the butterfly kind of pop out of the background......

This quilt is the first to be completely finished for my daughter's silent auction.  I created a special label for the back that incorporates both her blog name and my quilting "handle":

The binding will be the bright blue of the four-patch squares.  It's looking really good now where I've started to do the hand-stitching!  So now I'll head over to Amy's Sew and Tell Friday to post my link and see what everyone else has been up to this week, then finish off this quilt!

Later!

Sarah