Here we are on the first day of July – and it’s not just Canada Day… it’s time for a new quilt for Burton’s chaise. Especially since I didn’t get around to making him one for May or June.

I didn’t have any specific plans for those months, but I did have one for July. I knew I wanted to do something with maple leaves for Canada Day. I started looking at Leaf blocks, but ended up coming across this gorgeous panel by Stonehenge Fabrics.

Happily, Lens Mills carried all the fabrics in the line, and I was able to pick it up on one of our trips to Chatham months ago. Because the panel was big enough as is, I didn’t do any piecing. Just sandwiched it together with this cute beaver stripe I got for the back

I quilted it with a wide grid of straight lines and that was that. I wasn’t able to bind it right away, so I laid it over the quilt rack behind my chair until I could get to it.

And apparently Burton just couldn’t wait that long for me to finish it. Every night until I worked on it, I found him laying up there. And when I finally did get to stitching the binding down.

He was right there in my lap. Happily, his quilts never take long to bind, and soon enough, it was on his chaise.

Ironically, though this was the easiest of his quilts to make (since there was no piecing), it was actually the priciest – the panel and the backing fabric cost almost $50! All his other have been made (mostly) from scraps.

But, only the best for this patriotic Lord!