Butterfly Bash

Our local quilt shop, The Pin Cushion, hosted a Butterfly Bash earlier this month to celebrate the beginning of summer. What a fun idea! 

A landscape company did a great presentation on planting butterfly gardens or containers. They showed us several types of plants that attract different kinds of butterflies. And we got some tips for caring for those plants.

Then a guild member (Ruby) gave a short trunk show of butterfly quilts. She collects vintage quilts and her favorite ones have butterflies. She also makes and loves modern butterfly quilts. We got to see some gorgeous quilts and heard her stories about where they came from. So interesting!

The shop had a contest going, where we had to guess how many butterfly "items" were in the shop.  My guess was way off - only about 20% of the actual number. But it was fun to walk around and look for the butterflies.

Last but not least, they handed out a free pattern plus a piece of 30s reproduction fabric to anyone willing to make a butterfly block and bring it back.  Each butterfly block will be put into a quilt the shop is making to look like a vintage one on display.  Each of us who made a block will have our names entered for a chance to win that quilt.  I may need to make this block again because it was quick and so cute.