June Snow Happy Heart Block

I have been having so much fun putting together the background blocks to go with the Snow Happy Heart patterns designed by Anne Sutton of Bunny Hill Designs and, I had already decided and pieced together my background for June's heart before the pattern was released.

June's heart was decorated with a really cute little snow lady holding a number of gifts and, although she was lovely, the gifts didn't really co-ordinate with what I had embroidered for the background on my June block, so I changed her slightly.

On my block background, as well as the month, I had embroidered the word 'Butterfly' together with three little butterflies which, I felt were nice and 'summery' for the month of June.  When I saw the heart applique design I had the idea to replace the gifts with some more butterflies.

I decided that I wanted to try and keep to the original design as much as I could, so I kept the snow lady exactly as she should be and then just used the bows from the gifts as each of the top set of wings for my butterflies leaving out the appliqued gift boxes.  I added a smaller second set of wings and filled in the embroidered outline with satin stitches. I really like how they turned out.

After I had finished my June block, I was also excited to piece together all the blocks so far so that I could see what the quilt really looks like to date.  I am really delighted with how this quilt is shaping up.

As today is Monday, I am linking this post to the stitchery link up hosted by Super Mom No Cape!