I suppose that I am one of about half a million bloggers who have made a resolution to return to blogging in 2015.  Maybe I'll be the one to keep it up.

I think I'll jump right in with what I'm working on now.  My guild's yearly challenge in coming up in April.  I'm quite sure that no one in the guild pays any attention to my blog, so I think I can post photos here.  The theme this time is "Weather."  I've decided to make a wall hanging based on the title of an old children's book, "Where Does the Butterfly Go When It Rains?"

Here is a sketch I drew on graph paper from a photo I found online.

I was most worried about creating the butterfly, because if I couldn't pull that off, the whole thing would be a bust.  I've worked for two days on it.  I decided to hand applique the blue lines and embroider the rest in black on a soft yellow cotton.  I'll cut out about 1/4 inch around it all and hand applique it to the background.

I'm using a lovely navy batik for the background, green for the grass and leaves, and a soft lavender (which, unfortunately looks pink in the photo) for the flower and bud.  I'll scatter some small white flowers in the grass.

The diagonal lines in the sketch will be hand quilted lines of rain.  I bought some tiny navy/iridescent beads to put into about every fifth stitch of quilting to make raindrops and some clear/iridescent beads for the edges of the butterfly's wings and to sew scattered in the grass.

I'm not worried about the stems, leaves, and flowers, but I really don't have a good plan yet for the grassy area.  I'm thinking maybe a mix of applique and embroidery again.  I love a good, scary project.