Showing posts with label tree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tree. Show all posts

Thursday, June 10, 2010

May mini quilt

Lest you all think that I have forgotten about my monthly journal mini quilts, I haven't. I just didn't have the time since I was making t-shirts for my mom and doing other things that took priority. So, here's my little quilt for May - a tad late.
 The idea came from Satu whose blog, Quilttales, I follow and who wrote: "I don't know how it looks there in Canada in May... But the first thing that came to me was the blossom of appletrees."
Go over for a visit and you can check out what she's working on right now. Her work is immaculate.

Now, whether or not this looks like an apple tree in bloom, I don't know but I did want to make a tree with blossoms on it. Here's the fabric from my stash that I cut out all those teeny tiny blossoms. 

It's nice to just look around the studio and pick and choose fabrics to cut up. This is a really old piece of fabric that I have had for years that was probably bought for a garment or for a quilt but it is not a tight enough weave to be put in a quilt. It's OK for the back of mini's though - although I didn't use it for this quilt.
Just listening to a little Marco Antonio Solis on Youtube while I waited for these photos to upload. The last pic didn't want to upload properly and after 6 tries, I finally got it to upload in the way it was meant to - landscape, as opposed to the portrait that the other 5 attempts came up as. What I finally did was copy and paste the photo the way I wanted it and uploaded the 'new' image. It worked. I don't know why it wouldn't do that the very first time.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

April mini

Just playing.
New Growth. (click to view it bigger)
I had a totally different sketch for April but I really didn't like it. I decided just to wing it and I do like how this turned out. It was totally a matter of whether or not I could pull it off. The 'new growth' is made with my machine's lock stitch. This is a stitch that does five stitches in one spot.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

March mini

I'm a few days late in posting this. It's the monthly (so far) 6" X 8" mini. Windy  and stark is how I thought to depict March trees.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Just playing

Sometimes you just need a break from stuff you have to do and projects that are big. So, I decided to just play for a bit. I also thought that maybe I could make this into a journal project and do one a month. I'll see how far I get with that.


I had made some green fabric inchies earlier and incorporated them into this little 6" X 8" piece. It has a backing but no batting so it isn't technically a mini quilt.

I am nowhere near as ambitious as Joan at Rosegardenquilts who is sewing a face a day.