Textile Postcard Project Week # 35

May 27th- June 2nd 2018
Week # 35

Beautiful Butterfly

About 30 years ago I had a passion about butterflies. There were many fabrics on the market featuring these beautiful creatures.
My enthusiasm was fueled by the sight of the brightly coloured blue and black Ulysses butterflies we saw when travelling up Cape York in Northern Queensland during the winter of 1990.
I recently found a small and forgotten box of applique motives that I had made by machine. This butterfly is not copied from real life but was created as I stitched.  The background fabric is hand dyed muslin.

Detail of machine stitched butterfly