The Quiltmaker's Butterfly Forest

 

Let your creativity take flight with quilting inspiration from butterflies of the Tiputini Biodiversity Research Station! Beginning with the magnificent 12-block sampler of butterflies and wreaths—an ideal block-of-the-month—you’ll sew 8 enchanting projects that capture nature’s beauty. Introduce contrast, embellishment, and negative space as you sew large quilts, pillows, wallhangings, and placemats. Full-size appliqué patterns are included, plus an easy guide to raw-edge fusible appliqué.

• Nature’s magic, sewn with fabric! 12 full-size butterfly patterns and 6 wreath patterns that stitch up fast
• Raw-edge appliqué a block each month to finish the exquisite Tiputini sampler
• Try your hand at 8 projects, from large quilts to pillows and placemats

- No turned edges! Easy-to-learn, dimensional wool appliqué—classic Baltimore Album motifs
- Join the slow-sewing movement with 9 small appliqué and embroidery projects like pillows and table rugs
- Learn Deborah Tirico’s dimensional felted-wool techniques such as beading, trapunto, layering, and needle-slanting