Still sewing...

I sewed together the remaining fan blades from Linda's scrap box. She said, be careful they aren't measured precisely. As if that would stop me!!!

Here are the two sewn sections creating a curve... nice!

I've made a couple more as I wanted a bit of golden hue... and some bright green as you know lime is a neutral, right?

 It becomes a real "S" shape however... I wondered about appliqueing it to a long skinny background, and doing some colorful circles to go with... or

separating out the blades... will I do a circle to cover the raw edge centers? Or another shape?
Fun to play with on my tiny temporary design wall.

As to the watercolor...

 I had a good time sewing the horizontal rows, keeping it all connected with chain piecing,

So now it looks long and skinny. And it might be after the rows are sewn.
Funny how you can place all the squares on the design wall, then it looks different sewn

Here it is with the bottom half rows sewn to each other

I hoped to have the whole thing done but something in the sewing I did do, hurt my old PCL torn knee... I've been really thrown off with pain. I don't know if it was some change in angle or just sewing again at a machine, but I rested yesterday and watched these

and am so excited to find a new series that is smart, and funny.

Back to the discussion...

At first I started ironing all seams open this time. I usually press them in one direction across a row, then the other direction for the next row, so they'll nest when stitching the rows. This time I thought I'd try opening.

Well opening the quarter inch seams took a long time. Then I wondered if they would lay flat after stitching and pressing, so I went back to pressing to the side. I'll see which method lays flatter.

I decided aspen trunks won't show up on this light center. The little squares I was given are nearly all lights, and my goal was to use only what I was given. So....
Now I think I'll use a brown scrap to do some branches, not a trunk, and stencil birds on the branches. 

Either that or stencil the birds, cut them out and applique them on branches for dimension.
A quilt evolves.

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