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25+ Free Butterfly Quilt Patterns and Butterfly Block Templates

Do you love the airy look of butterflies but can’t decide on a project? Flutter into the world of quilting with our delightful collection of free butterfly quilt patterns!  Browse over a dozen free butterfly quilt and quilt block patterns ranging from small wall hangings to large bed quilts. Patterns include charming appliqued baby quilts, stunning patchwork designs, garden-themed blocks, and colorful pieced designs.

Tired of your fabric stash overtaking your sewing room? You will find tutorials and free templates for easy scrappy quilts featuring everyone’s favorite pollinator – the butterfly. These free patterns are ideal for using up those odd scraps and strips in your stash. From charming butterfly quilt blocks to stunning full-sized quilts, we’ve got a variety of designs to suit every skill level and aesthetic preference.  Get ready to spread your creative wings and bring the beauty of butterflies into your quilting projects.

Butterfly quilt patterns

Hearts aflutter butterflies quilt design

FINISHED QUILT SIZE 64″ x 76″
Finished Block Size 10″ x 10″

The beautiful quilt you can make with this pattern has that lovely girly vibe that will cheer up the room you put it in, thanks to its design with a double outer frame in slightly different colors and a 4 x 5 grid of square and butterfly-shaped blocks in mostly pink and red colors set on a white base.

by Rileyblakedesigns

Mariposas quilt pattern (offset block tutorial)

size: 76 x 67.5″

Sometimes you get bored with simple rows of blocks in precise order and want to switch things up a little, says this quilt that features a white background and five columns of five butterflies in different colors each, placed on the quilt so that the neighboring columns are slightly offset compared to each other, giving them an illusion of movement.

by Woodberryway

Petite Butterflies Quilt Pattern

Size: 54 1/2″ x 64″

Playful and calming at the same time, this quilt bears a design that’s fun to create and relaxing to watch, with a thin outer frame on a white background and five offset columns with six butterflies in them, each butterfly with differently colored top and bottom halves and a thin black vertical line across their middle.

by Robertkaufman

Aunt Ella’s Butterflies – vintage butterflies quilt Pattern

Finished quilt size: 72″ x 72″

Innovate and play as you create with this pattern that helps you make a unique quilt that has a double outer frame, a set of diagonally intersecting lines made of vibrant spots that form diagonal rows with colorful butterflies in them, oriented diagonally towards the upper corners of the quilt, alternating between left and right.

by Robertkaufman

Scrappy Butterfly Baby Quilt Tutorial

Leftover scraps of fabric can turn into a beautiful new piece of decor if you use this pattern to whip up a quilt that features a white base with a 7 x 5 grid of large blocks that alternate between blocks with 3 x 3 grids of variously colored small squares, and blocks with solid butterfly shapes on white backgrounds.

by Conniekresin

Butterflies are free crib quilt pattern

Here comes a quilt for a crib that your baby will adore because it has a bunch of differently colored 3D butterflies that are so fun to touch for babies, arranged in diagonal rows, with contrasting lines made up of small squares set so their corners touch each other.

by Freepatterns

Large Butterfly quilt pattern

Size: 46″ X 58″

Here’s a light quilt that’s perfect for the early days of spring, both due to its lightness, and its design that screams spring, with a pure white background, a thin green frame on the outer edges, and many butterflies with contrasting top and bottom halves and black vertical lines across their middle, oriented randomly to make them seem as though they’re fluttering around.

by Cloud9fabrics

Wildflowers and Butterfly Pattern

Finished size: 44 1/2″ x 56 1/2″

Let’s get psychedelic, says this pattern that shows you how to create a fascinating quilt that has a vibrant outer frame around a white base with a hypnotic 7 x 5 grid of blocks that alternate between checkered 2 x 2 squares that have bright purple convex thin triangles around their corners to make them look like enchanted butterflies, and golden windmill blocks.

by RobertkaufmaN

Butterfly Blooms Quilt Pattern

Finished size: 72″ x 86″

This lovely creative quilt features five columns with colorful blocks that resemble both flowers and butterflies thanks to their minimalistic design, with the two side columns and the central one consisting of six such blocks, while the remaining two have just five flower butterflies in them, all set on a mild blue background that represents the sky.

by Robertkaufman

Magic Butterfly Quilt Pattern Free PDF

50″ x 70.5″

Show your love for the little love bugs with a quilt that has two big horizontal polygon arrows overlapping each other and facing opposite sides, with additional decorative small triangles as a kind of background, and a vertical rectangle on top that is full of realistic depictions of butterflies in different sizes.

by Fatquartershop

Butterfly Garden Quilt

FINISHED QUILT SIZE 62″ x 74″

Finished Block Size 10″ x 10″

You can’t attract butterflies if you don’t have a field of flowers, like the one on this quilt with a white base bordered by a wide contrasting frame, and a 5 x 4 grid of blocks that have light beige, gray, and brown diamond shapes with curved corners on them, with cross shapes made of four white squares and a colored central square inside each diamond

by Rileyblakedesigns

Free mini quilt pattern with large applique butterfly – neovol

Finished size: 18 x 20”

Here’s a mini quilt that can splendidly decorate your bathroom, kids’ room, or hallway, featuring a mostly white base made of patterned fabric, a thin outer frame around the borders, and a beautiful big applique butterfly in flight, viewed at a slight angle, as the main central motif.

by Lillyella

Fluttering wings free butterfly quilt pattern

Finished quilt size: 48″ x 60″

The design of this quilt is so gentle, it makes you want to cuddle into it, with its wide baby blue outer frame, white background on the main area, with a 3 x 4 grid filled with blocks that each have a thin square frame with each side differently colored, and a depiction of a diagonally oriented butterfly inside, set so they alternate between facing top-left and facing top-right corners, complete with tiny blue Froebel stars in the corners of the blocks.

by Robertkaufman

Butterfly quilt blocks templates (FREE PDFs)

Butterfly quilt block

Here’s a demonstration of how to properly make things simple but effective, this block has just one vertical strip set across a contrasting square, and a similarly colored fabric around them, with white triangles at the corners and the middle of each side that give a rounded look to the wings of this amazing butterfly depiction.

by Diaryofaquilter

Strip butterflies quilt

The block you can make with this pattern can help you put your fabric leftovers to good use as you snip them up into stripes that you’ll use to create the wings, arranging them horizontally in three rows for the top wings and vertically in the same manner for the bottom wings.

Butterfly charm block paper piecing patterns

Charm packs make quilting projects faster and easier, and with the pattern we have here you’ll be able to whip them up into blocks that have butterflies on them in no time and assemble them into a grid of your preferred dimensions, with few or many butterfly blocks mixed with solid ones in various colors.

by Lillyella

butterfly block

12”finished block

One of the simpler ways you can put together a butterfly block, this pattern teaches you how to turn two half-square triangles into the top half of the flying critter, and six smaller half-square triangles with two solid squares into the bottom half of the butterfly.

by Sewmesomethinggood

Easy butterfly quilt block

12”finished block

A dash of imagination transferred into creativity, this pattern, and a bit of fabric is all you need to make this minimalistic butterfly block that has two contrasting horizontal halves, a small white trapezoid in the middle on the top edge, and a contrasting vertical strip across its middle.

by Sewcanshe

18 different butterfly blocks

In case you aren’t sure which kind of blocks you want on your next quilt but know you want them to be butterfly-style ones, this set of eighteen different butterfly blocks will surely provide you with at least a few viable options because the patterns in this set range from simple minimalistic to detailed and complex kinds, with everything in-between.

by Quiltine

Fluttering by Butterfly Quilt Block

This lovely block brings something slightly different to the table as it utilizes only two contrasting colors that form the shape of a polygonal butterfly, with the addition of small buttons at the top of the antennas, and a row of them on each outer edge of the wings.

by lifestyle.howstuffworks

 

Butterfly quilt block

10” finished, 10.5” square unfinished

To make this cute and easy butterfly block you need to whip up two half-square triangles in contrasting hues for the top part of the butterfly, and a dark rectangle with a contrasting, upward-pointing polygonal arrow that has its top cut off, for the bottom part of the butterfly.

by Diaryofaquilter

Vintage butterfly patchwork quilt and pieced butterfly quilt block

finished single quilt size: 74 x 102”, uses 59 butterfly blocks

finished double quilt size: 88 x 116”, uses 83 butterfly blocks

un-finished quilt block size: 12.5 inches square

This pattern comes as a whole quilt option and a single block option, with a diagonally oriented butterfly presentation that’s a bit demanding to make because it has wings with a straight top side and a bottom side that has two curved edges, as well as two pointy triangles, and a black body with long thin curved antennas.

by Qisforquilter

link to printable pattern: HERE

Might as well be on a large meadow with all these butterflies in your possession, even though they’re just patterns. Did you fall in love with some of them already? Be sure to write your experience with them in the comments below so everyone can know how they turned out for you! And don’t forget that you can subscribe to the mailing list at any time to receive fresh updates. Now go and have fun with your new butterfly quilt patterns!