Fun For Friday - Butterflies are Free and UFO Report

I'm interrupting the usual FFF post to bring you a special report from my friend, Susan McD.

In her own words:
Finally!  My UFO Cupcake Challenge is done......late!  A major problem with UFO's is that U Forget.  I picked up my notes, cut out all the letters, fused the letters to two of the borders.....and then found that I had the wrong oath.  What??  One side of my notes had the Presidential Oath, the other the Officers Oath.  Why both in my notes?  I can't remember why I did that.  Redo.

The UFO curse continued while basting.  Went to the last section remaining to baste....short a few inches.  What??

I had not centered properly.  I could not bring myself to remove all those pins so I cut off some of the backing, inserted about 6 inches of another fabric and put it back on the table and finished basting.

This spring Gwen Marston came to NJ.  I took a wonderful class with her.  She mentioned that she uses a single width binding on her quilts.  I tried it here.  Perfect!  This worked beautifully with the stripe and saved lots of yardage.

So 'POTUS 1789 - 1901" is done!  When I told Barb and Jill the name of the quilt they said Huh??  POTUS means President of the United States.

My UFO had a baby.  I ended up with lots of black and white triangles, right sides together, when making the second block. Can't waste them!  Turned all of them into little hsts.  I accidentally put some of the together wrong forming white "flying geese".  Decided I liked that mistake, makes it a little more interesting, so they are at the top of this little quilt, 12" X 13", called The First Four.  It is now in my UFO pile.....

Butterflies are Free (FFF)

For the past 12 years or so Hanna and I have raised butterflies around this time of year.  This year we had 5 painted ladies and the best release ever!  We did it while coco was at school.  You can see last years release here.

It's alway a challenge getting them out of their house.

In the center of these bushes across the yard, one sat for quite a while.  Usually they fly out and leave our yard immediately.

This little one was the last to leave and didn't want to.

I finally got it on my finger where sat for a while.  It really was the best butterfly day we've had.  They stayed in the yard for at least 5 minutes.

Have a wonderful weekend~

Happy Summer!

Thank You All So Much!
Just wanted to say thank you for all the wonderful comments you left for me about my Sparrow story.

I'm working on a baby quilt that I promised a friend a couple of months ago.  It is for her first grandchild and the parents are in the Army, so I decided to use red, white and blue.

It's about 44" square, perfect for the car seat, the floor, the playpen, the stroller.  This is the size I used most with my little ones.

It's being displayed on my Christmas gift, the pull down design wall.  I love this!!  It's hung over my sliding doors in the sewing room.

Here is the back.

I always try to have a secret stash of these in my sewing room. The kids kept raiding the carb drawer I would miss out.

There is a new treat in town!  Skinny Cow (don't you love that name?) dreamy clusters.  There are 6 of them and they are really yummy, small, but yummy.  I try to take 2 bites per.

This arrived today - it just cracked me up.  We do all the paying, she has all the fun.  As it should be, I suppose.

Today was the big Butterfly Release 2011.  Hanna received a butterfly kit when she was 4 or 5 years old.   We've continued the tradition the past dozen years.

We had a good crowd on hand, including coco, who was quite interested in what was going to happen.

We turned it this way and that to try to get them to fly out

She had a real close encounter with this one -

We had four beautiful painted lady butterflies.

As usual they all flew out and headed straight for the neighboring yards, lol.

This is the look of bafflement and disappointment.

I hope you had it great First Day of Summer!
Graduation is Thursday, I can't wait.