While the weather was decent on Sunday, Saturday it was absolutely sweltering. I managed to spend an hour and a half weeding the catio yard in the early before I had to give up or risk heat exhaustion.

So… I came into the nicely cooled house, got a BIG glass of water, and set to a project I’ve been putting off too long – a June quilt for Burton’s chaise. We have all the months except May, June, and September. May was far too busy with gardening, and June was quickly slipping away!

For June, Burton decided he wanted something bright and cheerful. What’s more bright and cheerful than a big, bold butterfly?

The pattern is Social Butterfly by Lella Boutique and it uses two fat quarters and some background fabric. (I used a scrap for the butterfly body, but in the pattern, it’s the same print as the coral in mine). And as you can see it’s a nice BIG block. I only needed to make one, and add some borders to have the perfect size for the chaise.

I left the quilting of it until Sunday, (Nothing fancy, just stitch in the ditch, and a few straight lines), and sat out on the porch to do the binding.

The quilt is only 30″ x 22″ so it did not take any time at all to sew down that binding (which was another scrap from the stash. )

The back was some leftover flannel from the back of another quilt. It certainly doesn’t get more cheerful than that!

And it looks perfect on his chaise. Of course, the real question is – what does his Lordship think of it…?

It think it’s a hit! (Trust me – that’s his happy face!)