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      My friend sent me a pin of a border that resembled a ribbon. I used graph paper and figured out a block that would finish at 4". The pin only had a section of it, not how it turned corners. Soon, I realized I was in trouble in the corners. I tried to use a HST of white and the light purple batik (Cairo), but the upper left corner looked awful. I tried the dark batik used in the border, but looked like holes.
     I looked at some butterfly patterns I had and found one I used to make a ...

     My granddaughter is 3 months old now. I did a quick panel type baby quilt when she was born, but was planning on using these improv birds and butterflies made by following Lynne's patterns that I bought. Making improv is not easy as you would think. I could not get the butterflies to be reliably the way I wanted them and gave up and used what I had or else Violet would be six by the time I would be done.
     I laid them out how I wanted them and then had to figure how to add the extra ...