Tessellating Butterfies Quilt and Pink Fairy /Rail Fence Blocks

Pink and green tessellating Butterfly Baby quilt

I have completed the machine quilting and the binding on my little butterfly baby quilt.  It has turned out to be quite a sweet looking little quilt and although I did say at the time that I would never make this pattern again, LOL, I think I just might give it another whirl in the future (now that I know what I'm doing. :)

Wonder how it would look in blues and browns???

I am also currently still working on the bottom half of my Diamonds Jubilee Bargello quilt, (which I really love!) but I gave it a rest for a bit while I started work on another pink and mauve quilt top for another baby girl arriving in January to a cousin of my step-daughter. (Just an excuse to work on another one. 😉)

This little number is quite simple to make. It's a combination of strip sets and some fairy fabric blocks interspersed.  It gave me the opportunity to use up some of the leftover pink fabric from the butterfly quilt along with some new fat quarters.

The blocks are 7 1/2 inches square before they are sewn together. I cut the strips 2 1/4 inches wide and sewed 4 strips together in sets. Then I crosscut the strip sets in 7 1/2 inch lengths to complete the block.

I had a fat quarter (18X21" fabric) of pink fairies from which I wanted 8 or 9 squares (depending on how I decided to arrange them with the strip blocks.) Unfortunately it wasn't enough to cut them all 7 1/2 inches square, so I decided to cut them smaller (5 1/2" square) and make a pink border around the outsides. After doing the math I figured out I needed to cut pink strips 1 1/2 inches wide, taking into account the seam allowances, to make the finished blocks 7 1/2 inches square like the strip blocks.

After that I arranged all the blocks on the floor in 3 different arrangements to see which one I liked best.
After a short consultation with my hubby, I decided on the pattern below:

Pink and Mauve Fairy baby quilt blocks

Then I sewed all the blocks together and now I am putting the borders on. :)

I have decided to make a narrow white border around the outsides of the blocks and then a 2 1/2 or 3 inch outer border. (I don't want to make it too wide or I'll have a problem with the back fabric which is only 42 inches wide.)

Then there is still the question of what to use for the binding....


Happy quilting!

Pattern reject: I removed the green strips and replaced them with pink ones...