Birds New House Study Quilt: Leaves
Here’s my reason for not posting yesterday:
Rimsky the Siberian Forest Cat followed me up to my studio and made himself at home as I prepared tree branches for the quilt. No, I couldn’t disrupt his nap to put the branchs on the quilt and take a picture. So today I am reporting two rounds of 20-minute sessions.
I had decided that making the branches brown would be better, and sure enough, it proves to be so. Today I made some leaves by first seaming two piece of fabric together, then ironing freezer paper leaf shaped cutouts onto the wrong side of the fabrcis, trimming about 1/4″ seam allowance and pressing, then gluing it to the backside.
Now I’m thinking I need real trees rather than the sapling sized trees I have now. Which brings up the question of whether I want the trees to stop within the frame of the quilt, or go past as if one is looking through the trees. I’ll mull over that. Lots more leaves to make anyway. And more birds. I did hear a Pileated Woodpecket while I was last at the property. Not to mention the Sandhill Cranes migrating overhead…
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