It's still Fall and I'm done

Just in time to hang and enjoy for a couple months - my Wonky Trees are done. I have to say that while it's definitely grown on me - I still think this quilt falls in the ugly cute category. I had lots of fun making the trees and loved hand quilting it. Thanks Tonya for setting up the class and inspiring me to go a little more liberated in my quilting.

Not crazy about my results

I decided it was time to try and assemble my trees and I'm not really liking the results. I'm going to stop where I am now and quilt the small piece that's already assembled and save the other blocks for another time - maybe I'll come up with a better plan for joining them.

I'd like to try this again in the future but I may need to rethink and limit my color scheme....keep it scrappy but pick just a color or two to work with. I did have a lot of fun making the trees - they may even show up in other projects.

Playing with my blocks

I'm enjoying looking at all the blocks and and quilts in progress. Mine is far enough along that I'm beginning to thing about how they're going to go together. The last tree was pretty twisted looking and I thought I'd toss it out but after thinking more about it I'll probably use it anyway.

First I just laid the trees out in rows but decided they were were too orderly.

So I spaced them out some so they weren't all lined up and I like that better. I think I'll start in the top left corner and add background fabric to them one at a time and then try to fit them together as I go. Actually, looking at this photo - I think if I pull the bottom tree into the bottom right corner I'll have enough trees.

A few more trees

I'm focused more on moving than quilting but I found a little time tonight to make more trees.

I wanted to make some two toned but I'm not sure how well it worked. I don't usually use batiks either but I noticed that these two greens were both batiks - they probably slipped in my stash in fat quarter bundles with other *regular* fabrics.

These are trees I made on Thursday. Hopefully by the time I get moved and put all of these on the design wall they'll play nicely with each other. For now, I'm just making them in sets of 2 or 4.

Autumn Trees - tree version #2

It's been a long day but I couldn't resist trying a different version today. Tonya suggested I stack 3-4 fabrics so I tried three. My first attempt did NOT work but I still got 2 usable trees from it.

The trunks could be cut down a little but I'm going to wait until I assemble them in case I need to trim the blocks down.

These trees are really quick. I can see a decent size quilt growing pretty fast once I get going.

Trees

My plan was just to pull fabric today and pack it along with the tools I'd need to make blocks once we moved but I couldn't resist making a few trees.

My quilt will be Autumn Trees and I'm starting with 2 squares or rectangles and then slicing, shuffling and reassembling the blocks. The plan is to try some other trees as I go along too.

I posted some other photos on my blog and if I did it correctly, clicking on the title should take you to that post on my blog.

I want to play too!

I'm Mary in MN (Minneapolis) and I'm a big fan of Gwen Marston's work as well as Tonya's. My quilts tend to be simple, scrappy, and traditional. String quilts have always been a favorite of mine and a particular focus of my quilting this past year with the HeartStrings Quilt Project.

Fall is my favorite season and each year I've quilted I've tried to make a fall quilt. For this project, I plan to work with trees with the goal of having my quilt top finished by Fall. I'll be out of town most of this week and I'm getting ready for a move in a few weeks so my start may lag a little behind but I'm excited about participating.