Butterfly Wall Hanging

When I first arrived in Panama my neighbor took me to the Co-operativa de Mola in Panama City. (You can buy molas made by Co-op members by checking the Mola Art link). I picked out a number of small tourist molas which all had butterflies on them with the idea of making a wall hanging. On my next vacation home to the US, my mother and I spent hours arranging them on a design wall until the composition suited us. The next step was how to deal with each of the molas being a difference size. After much thought, we realized that yellow was the one color they all had in common. Thus, we framed them in yellow fabric so each came out to be 6 inches high by 7 1/2 inches wide. Black seemed the best choice to set them in so we sashed each mola block in black fabric. Not wanting to sew on the actual mola piece we machine quilted in the ditch (between colors of yellow and black) and some quilting is also in the black sashing. The entire piece measures 19 inches wide by 46 inches long.

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