Complementary Sewing

I finished putting the right-hand wings on my star points, and I'll do the rest another month.

In my scrappy plans for the year, I planned to make two blocks a month from Elizabeth Hartman’s Lepidoptera pattern.  Of course, this couldn’t be a simple plan... First, I don’t carry large quantities of a single background fabric in my stash, and this needed 5+ yards, I think.  I had three of my glow in the dark white, so I began with that, found and ordered a little more, and have been happy with my choice.  I do find that the patterned side is pretty subdued, so at some point,

I will surely sew wrong sides to right and have a funny piece when you see it in the dark!

I’m using a half-yard package of V and Co.’s Confetti Ombré for the blocks.  This is the fabric I bought last April to reward myself for each day’s physical therapy during recovery from broken hand bones.  I want this fabric used in something glorious.  But here’s the issue: there’s no red in this collection!  Instead, I made a complementary green butterfly and a tan one.

The final issue for now (besides the fabric waste, which I avoid in general) was probably the easiest to resolve.  Since the butterflies are different sizes, it was necessary to plan, definitively, where each fabric was going.  It took several rounds of fiddling, adjusting, photographing, and rearranging to get it right, but I think I’m happy with the current plan.  Now I need to hunt down the picture (it’s not on my iPad, so it must be on a camera).  Most months I’ll make two, except for the month I make the center, large butterfly.

I have some additional complementary sewing for the month.  Let’s see where I am with this pixelated nonsense next week!

My final sewing for the week has actually been red.  These are my little units for Garden Mosaic.  I have one more stack by the machine, but I used a good pile of 2” scraps on this.

Next week I’ll be sewing up the tiny blocks hosted by Soscrappy.

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,
katie z.

P.S.  Be sure to check out the red projects this weekend!