Quilt square

I made this quilt square for one of "Steyning Grammar School 400 Heritage Quilts" celebrating Steyning grammar school school's 400years anniversary! Each square is being made by someone to do with the school whether they are a student or a volunteer. Also each squares theme has to be about Steyning (Steyning is a small town in the country side of Sussex) and its beauty.

My quilt square is about the natural flowers you can find on the South Downs and also a species of beautiful butterfly that is found also on the Downs.
I started of by finding resources, I first researched the Steyning Downland Scheme where I found out about lots of butterflies and decided to include the species Adonis Blue in my work.

However the way I got resources for the flowers I was particularly happy with as I used my own photography.

Flowers                                  

Using stitches I loved most I hand sewed the flowers from my own photography.

Some stitches you will see in there is backstitch, seed stitch, satin stitch, fly stitch and my very favorite french knots!!!

Butterflies

The way I did these Adonis Blue butterflies was one of my favorite ways of machine embroidery. I used dissolvable fabric! After sewing onto the fabric I then put the sewing in warm water and the excess fabric went away leaving the rest as a glue, then all I had to do was wait for them to dry by the fire( picture1 ) and hand sew them onto the square.

 

If you want to find out a bit more about the SGS 400 Heritage Quilts  go to http://adukeblog.wordpress.com/

Or

http://www.sgs.uk.net/SGS-400