Big Tree Project, Stage II

Here is the winter segment to go with the fall segment.  There's every chance i could get this finished by the end of February!  judy

Big Tree Project

Update below.
This is the first of the four panels (spring, summer, fall, winter) of the same basic tree/landscape form.  the leaves on the autumn tree are cut out with pinking sheers from painted silk paper.  There will be a lot more leaves, but i didn't see a lot of point to pinning them all on ..  you can get the point.  i think the spring flowers will be washaway lace and the summer leaves crocheted .  but i'm not sure of that yet.  each piece is about 19 inches square,  so the whole thing with some dividers will be 80 inches.

I removed the earlier picture and replaced it with the finished Autumn section.

Trees, More..

Not done much on the big tree quilt project, but decided to work also on a 52-tree postcards for the year.  You can see them here. In general, one a week, but as ideas come: might as well get ahead for when one has guests and no sewing much gets done.

It helps to be thinking about trees, thinking about ideas regularly, I find.

Jill: I like #2 best. Have thought about what we learned, re balance, colour, rhythm, etc. I think #2 is better balanced regarding colour, shape and size of blocks. It has some tension for interest. Ann

Puzzle me this

TRee

Also, after a sterling beginning on my tree quilt, I simply looked at it hanging on the wall and vaguely concluded that it was finished.  One of the downsides of my style is that once I can really see in my mind what it looks like, the process becomes less interesting.  But yesterday, in an act of force of will, I spent two hours fusing little bark pieces to the remaining 4.5 feet of bark background.  Well, not to all of it, but I made considerable headway and perhaps have convinced myself that I haven't finished it yet and even that there remain problems to be solved.  It's the problem solving that will keep me going; that and a deadline.

Christmas Now!

I took to making these 3-D geodes for Christmas tree ornaments to sell at the Point Roberts Christmas Craft Faire.  I made a few; then a few more; and suddenly there are over a hundred of them, getting more glittery and fancy each step of the way.  I read today about a Chinese artist who has made 100 million porcelain, hand-painted sunflower seeds (currently on exhibit at the Tate Modern; see here).  I don't think I'm going that far, but I don't know.  They're pretty fun, they're pretty cute.  Although these are just 3-D versions of the geodes I've been making for years, credit to pointing the way to the last issue of Quilting Arts.  I make them somewhat differently, but they end up looking the same, I'd guess.  They're about 2.5 inches in diameter.  Now, what do you sell something like this for?  (I have to put little hanging strings on them all, also.)