I didn't know what to do with a piece of fabric that had all these lovely bugs on it. Until I came across this design in a magazine, 'Quilting Quickly'. The design was made by Colleen Grotke.

I enjoyed using all the colours but most of all I began thinking about the bugs themselves. Decades ago I remember more butterflies, the sound of cicadas and the chirps of crickets and how comforting it was. In the past few years because of climate change the silence is disturbing.