Nancy's Quilts

Breast Cancer Ribbon Butterflies Quilt and Pillow	When my sister Sarah was diagnosed with breast cancer, my friend Donna (who is a breast cancer survivor) urged me to make a quilt for her using the breast cancer ribbon for awareness. I found this pattern online and thought it was so interesting and unique. Donna used her fancy fabric-cutting equipment to cut out the ribbons, but I had to cut the other parts to the butterflies out by hand. Donna and I appliqued the butterflies to squares of fabric using a tiny zigzag stitch on her machine. Then I pieced the blocks together without sashing so it looked like lots of butterflies flying. The quilt was echo-quilted with gray thread so that it appears as if the butterflies are flapping their wings to fly! The quilt was machine-appliqued and machine-pieced and then hand-quilted by Nancy E. Miller. A matching pillow with a butterfly shows the echo-quilting done around each butterfly.