my creative week Project quilting "one lone tree"

 

"one lone tree" 9.5" X 12"

I did a lot of sewing this week, but the one thing I want to share today is my Project Quilting challenge piece, finished in two days. The goal with this challenge is to make a quilt following the prompts, in one week. The prompt was the number 1.... this is a vista I often see since moving to Colorado, one lonely survivor tree and a big blue sky. 

I started by pulling little scraps of blues and laying them on peltex stabilizer overlapping them. For my RSC friends, I included a few bright blues. 

In the back of my mind I knew I wanted a very abstract landscape scene, considered painting it on fabric but like the texture of lots of tiny fraying strips and bits.

I picked brownish greens for the ground, and a leetle stip of some winter organic nature that made me think of water....

Starting with strips and color, and a concept of 1

I didn't glue or fuse anything, just started stitching it all to the peltex with sparkly lavender thread in the sky, and an organic variegated thicker thread on the ground....

needs a bit of white thread to integrate the bright blue

this is how the back looked after that

that's the stiff stabilizer and bobbin threads. Next add a backing fabric and quilt a bit more, 

detail shot

 

a vintage Debbie Mumm fabric

including appliqueing a tree, then stitch painting some branches.... you can see the frayed threads add texture, including the green ones under the branches, I just love how it came out! this is the source of my tree fabric

a halloween sky black fabric strategically cut to be tree bark

a detail shot you can click on to enlarge

this is where it lives now, in our entry hall

I wouldn't have made it if I hadn't taken on the challenge to interpret the number 1 at Project Quilting... and I just love it. 

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