I’ve created about 30 different art quilts with trees, some birch but many just brown/grey trees. In some of my earlier quilts I would try to quilt each tree in the quilt differently. THAT became a challenge I couldn’t maintain and I wasn’t sure it was necessary for the artistic quality of the quilt.
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First Quilt Workshop a Success!!
I had an awesome time with 17 eager quilters today. I presented my first quilt workshop for the Juniata County Quilt Guild. I taught them how to piece using curved cuts and to design a quilt in a more contemporary style. The three hour workshop was just enough time to piece the art quilt itself
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How to Make a Pieced Tree Quilt
One of my signature art quilts is my Tree design. I’ve worked at creating different backgrounds and different foregrounds, sometimes a creek or stream, and colors of different seasons. I want to share the basic process for making a landscape tree quilt that has trees placed such that the quilt has depth to it. First
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