Feedsack Trees project: now a top

Good day, and welcome to my blog.  I have a top to report on, but first:

Did I really use 6 yards of Kona Snow solid fabric in July?  I think I did.  I ordered this fabric from Fabric Shack (better prices than a certain chain store) and it arrived in early July.  I've been busy with other things for two weeks, and I looked in my sewing area for what's left, and found 45"  of the yardage left.  I have been cutting lots of sashing for my Starlight Geese project, and more pieces for my Feedsack Trees project.  I guess that's where it went.

Anyhow.  The beginnings of my Trees project is described in this post.  I have been using authentic feedsacks I have collected over time.  I had a number of blocks, and set them with 1 inch (finished) sashing.  Here is what the top looks like now:

A lovely grove of trees. It will be  throw size.  Recall that I am using part of a published pattern, Winter Solstice, for this.  One inch white borders and I think I will stop here.  I had to carefully cut into my 45 inches of fabric left for the outside borders.   A close up view:

Oh yes, I played thread chicken with the top thread on my machine, in sewing this together:

Only about one foot left at the end of a seam.  What's that in the background you ask?  My husband's model train set up (HO scale) and landscaping styrofoam.  He has a long way to go on getting this landscaped.  We share the hobby room.

I will audition feedsacks and vintage fabric for a border for this project, but honestly I think I will stay with the current form, and send this off to the long-armer I use.  She is Boone's Quilting and you can find her business page on Facebook, if you search her name.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Wednesday wait loss, Put your foot down at For the love of geese, Needle and Thread Thursday, Nina-Marie,  Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Dutchman's Puzzle finish and trees pattern start

 It's Wednesday and I almost forgot it's my blogging day!

A stormy rainy day, but we need the rain for the grass and the crops.

First, a finish:  I bound my big (74 inches by 92 inches) Dutchman's puzzle quilt.  If you use scraps and stash for the 'geese' and the 'sky' pieces, you will use up a lot of fabric:

Too big to get it all in, laying on my design floor.  A close up is below, showing some vintage fabric.

Sashing,  borders and binding are new solid batik fabric.  Quilted very nicely by a local long arm quilter.  I am glad this is done.   It might go to my son, whose quilt I made him is quite worn out.

And now on to something new.  I previously blogged about my Winter Solstice finish.  I rarely buy patterns but I did for this - a quilt pattern my mom fell in love with.  She loves the finished quilt too.

I thought, why not use the 'tree' pattern in this project, and combine it with the feedsack fabric I love so much?  Feedsack patterns that, when cut into smaller pieces, do not show the beauty of the pattern?  The Winter solstice pattern has larger trees  So let's try it.

Here is my first set of trees.  Below, 4 more I made today.

Using some favorite fabrics.  I plan on adding narrow white sashing between the blocks, and perhaps offsetting them a bit.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Wednesday wait loss, Put your foot down at For the love of geese, Needle and Thread Thursday, Nina-Marie,  Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl

Viridian