Butterflies a Flutter Baby Quilt Pattern

Make an adorable baby blanket in no time at all with this simple baby quilt pattern. With butterfly applique and a pink ruffle trim, the Butterflies a Flutter Baby Quilt Pattern has a crisp white background, covered in swirly free-motion quilting. The white quilt allows the colorful butterflies to pop and stand out in a fabulous way. The precious butterflies, fluttering across the blanket, will relax your baby girl into a deep and pleasant slumber. Plus, your baby girl can keep this fantastical applique quilt even after she's grown up.
Project TypeMake a Project
Quilt Size36 inches wide x 45 inches long
Time to CompleteWeekend project
MATERIALS:
- SpraynBondTM Basting Adhesive
- Butterfly Pattern 1 and Pattern 2
- 1 Yard Background Fabric
- 6+ Coordinating Fat Quarters for Butterflies
- 1 Yard Backing Fabric
- 1/2 Yard Coordinating Fabric for Optional Ruffle
- Batting
- Thread
- Scissors
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Prewash appliqué and quilt face fabrics before using (without fabric softeners). Pretest SpraynBond™ on a scrap piece of fabric before beginning the project.
- Cut out your appliqué shapes. See attached pages of adorable butterfly templates!
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- Shake SpraynBond™ can well. Spray the back of the appliqué butterfly with SpraynBond™ Basting Spray in a sweeping motion.
- Place the sprayed butterfly on the quilt face while it is still tacky. If you don’t like where you placed it you can just peel it off and re-stick it till you are happy with your placement.
- Once the butterflies are on the project as you like them, simply stitch them into place. Use an embroidery foot or a walking foot on your sewing machine. The use of SpraynBond™ saves you a lot of time, since there are no pins to put in or take out as you sew.
- Use SpraynBondTM to tack your batting on the back of the quilt topper and backing fabric. Quilt as desired.
- Wash the project according to fabric used. SpraynBondTM washes out, leaving your quilt soft and cuddly.
Fun Butterfly Facts
Butterflies are graceful and beautiful creatures that represent the season of spring and renewal, but did you know these fun butterfly facts? Butterfly senses are a bit mixed up from our own. Butterflies cannot hear but feel vibrations instead. They also taste using their feet rather than their mouths, which probably makes you wonder if flower nectar tastes that bad! Butterflies also don’t have lungs and breathe through openings in their abdomen called spiracles. Butterfly eyes are made up of around 6,000 lenses and are able to see ultraviolet light. The pretty colors and designs on their wings are made from overlapping scales, but they don’t actually need those scales to fly. If you removed a butterflies scales, the only effect would be its loss of color and design. Because of their hard exterior, butterflies are relatives of the crab and lobster. Now that would be an interesting family reunion to see!
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mimiquilts2 986459 5
Sep 17, 2014
I made this quilt and it was my first appliquing. The baby quilt came out beautiful. I used ruffle with the binding attached to it, it was easy just to sew on. I rounded the corners of the quilt to soften to look. Stephanie

francishardman 852 6369
Oct 16, 2013
New to applique but will love learning with this lovely quilt x

rbassbite 7006046
Sep 12, 2013
my daughter-in-law loves butterflies and I wanted to make her a baby quilt for her first child who got here 10 weeks early so now I don't have much time to finish ,also it will be my first so I hope I can do this because I know she will love it. thanks for sharing.

almabrown1234 7969 429
Mar 06, 2013
What a beautiful art. I can't wait to make this one.
YummyLv
Feb 25, 2013
I would love to have a downloadable file on the patterns rather than saving the project on this site. Many times I am away from the computer and I do make a back up CD so I can share with others or just show them the latest patterns so they can go to your site to get the pattern.

DianeR
Mar 07, 2019
Just highlight what you want and then copy and paste it into whatever office document you use. or if you have firefox use the add on fireshot to capture what you want.

meleona 0113624
Feb 20, 2013
It looks like you quilted it before appliqueing. Is that right? Are the butterflies zigzaged on or just a straight stitch?
sanich5 8200320
Feb 20, 2013
Love this...cannot wait to work it into a design I have in mind...like to design my own

grammakitty8 45605 45
Nov 02, 2012
Butterflies fluttering across for baby to follow.

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