moon trees

I continued quilting my round robin quilt this week, finishing the orange and green spiky sections and starting on the next border. I am still undecided about what to quilt in the wide blue sections. I will wait until inspiration strikes to do this part.

I watched the next Moon Trees lesson on the Thread House Academy with Jo Avery and then added the. running stitch embroidery around my tree branches, as she suggested. I have fabrics picked out for 8 more blocks and will work away on them over the next while. I used pearl cotton for this stitching ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 2 weeks ago. under applique , counted cross stitch , embroidery , finn , gardens , hand quilting , hand sewing , moon trees , rainbow scrap challenge , round robin , slow sunday stitching , thread house academy

I did not touch my sewing machine this week. Not even once! I did, however, do quite a bit of hand quilting and hand appliqué. I did the first lesson of the Moon Trees Class with Jo Avery on the Threadhouse Academy and managed to get one block made. The background fabric is a piece of Essex Linen. The yellow tree is Fableism Sprout and the print is from Tilda. I plan on making more of these blocks with different variations of trees. The next online class will teach me how to do this. I'm using 80 wt thread ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 3 weeks, 2 days ago. under applique , crochet , finn , flowers , hand quilting , jo avery , moon trees , slow sunday stitching , thread house academy

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