butterfly blocks...

When I made penguin blocks, I ended up with extra yellow/orangish 2 inch squares. They were the beaks and feet. They just sat there. Wasn't sure what to do with them.

Well, I found a way to use them. They would become butterflies. Why butterflies? Because a while back I was just meandering through blog land and found this post about making butterflies:
here are Belinda's butterflies. She found the butterflytutorial at this blog. They were kinda cute. At first I had no intention of making any....but I started thinking as I watched a little yellow butterfly. Why not make them yellow??

I made some with green background. I liked them and wanted to make more.....

I ended up cutting more squares of different colors.


Mine are just like the tutorial except....

I switched to a white background,

Mine are 4 squares instead of 2 rectangles for the wings,

they are smaller, the body is cut 1 x 3 1/2 inches (the widths of my bodies got a little wonky)

the body is also dark brown not light...

and mine don't turn out square. The blocks are a little bit wider than they are tall.

I liked them.

I added fabric around each one so that they sit crooked in the block.

This was EXCELLENT practice for when I set my penguins wonky in blocks. I know how to do it now.

Now what to do with them???

More thinking.

They will just have to rest and wait.