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Pattern For Calico Butterfly

August 23, 1934
Detroit News Quilt History Project; Michigan State University Museum; Harriet Clarke
Detroit, Michigan, United States
A leaflet for the Calico Butterfly quilt pattern.
From The Home Service Bureau Of
The Detroit News
Pattern For Calico Butterfly


By Edith B. Crumb.

Here is a quilt pattern so easy that you can make it with your eyes shut, but you'll never want to shut them when it is finished for it will be such a beauty.

First of all take a large piece of paper, put it over the lealfet, hold both up to the window and trace the outline of the butterfly on it. This you will use for a pattern to be traced on the white blocks of your quilt. Now cut the butterfly in two lengthwise, and make three parts of the pattern of half of it: One upper wing, one lower wing, and half of the body and one feeler. These you will use for the cutting of your patches. Be sure to allow one-eighth inch all around each for turning in, with the exception of the center of the body which should be laid on the fold of the material.

Three kinds of material should be used for this butterfly, and three colors, too. The pattern as shown has a light green body, yellow calico upper wings and red and white checked lower wings.

The butterflies may be the same throughout the quilt or each may have a different combination of colors and materials. Every block may have a butterfly or they may be put on in alternate blocks on the straight or the diagonal.

You are free to work out your own ideas with this design and I know that you will enjoy making this gay and cheerful pattern and also find great pleasure in having a quilt adorned with it.

The butterflies may be hemmed down in true applique fashion or they may be put on with a blanket stitch in black.

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