June block finished

Here is my completed block for June for CQJP 2012.  I have to say I absolutely LOVE the gold and silver braid that is framing the photo. I used one strand of black embroidery thread to stitch his name and birthday. (Like before, I blurred out his birthday. Maybe I'm being overly protective, but hey...I'm his mom. It's my right!)

Here's the button cluster in the upper left corner.

I used waste canvas with embroidery floss to make this grid. I need to remember to use that more often. It sure helps keep stitches straight! The French knots are silk ribbon.

I decided to include a butterfly on each of my children's blocks for this anniversary crazy quilt. It symbolizes the changes these wonderful kids have gone through and will continue to undergo as they head to adulthood. For Jarrett's block, I made a 3-D butterfly. I traced a butterfly from Carole Samples' wonderful book, Treasury of Crazy Quilt Stitches, onto some fusible web. After adhering the web to a scrap of cream batik fabric, I cut out the butterfly. I adhered that to another scrap of the batik and cut again. Voila! I saw this idea on a McKenna Ryan quilt. I attached the butterfly to the quilt block only on the center of the butterfly, adding some beads for the body, head, and antennae.

This is a little swirl I beaded with gold seed beads and one larger Swarovski pearl.