Project Quilting Log Cabin Entry - Apple Tree - Submittal

Here is my submittal for the log cabin Project Quilting Challenge.

 

It measures approximately 34.5" x 32".

 

When this project first showed up I thought, "Of course - a block I've never done before!" Then, I thought some more and figured it would be a great way to use my scraps. I spent an entire day organizing my scraps by color for this project. After that day, I was walking with my coffee to a meeting and I thought - wow, wouldn't a tree be neat if I made the log cabins sort of circular so each strip was a 'leaf' of the tree? *Day wasted sorting by color...oh well*

 

I got to work right away. You can look through my album to see all my 'work in progress' & close up's if you want.

 

I used an awesome tree branch fabric for the trunk and the layers some strips of other brown fabrics to create a bit of dimension.

 

For the leafy portion of the tree I used many layers - first a solid layer of hand-dyed green, then some leafs from commercial prints and then finally my log cabin blocks. Most of the blocks have an apple print in their center. Some of the blocks are based from a square, some from a pentagon and some from a hexagon. Different shades of green circle each 'red' to create this fantastic leafy apple tree (of course I had to do an apple tree).

 

I have very few pastels in my stash so I had to flip quite a few fabrics over to create that dimension in the tree.

 

The log cabins are raw edge appliqué onto the quilt.

 

Swirly 'leafs' were quilted all over the green, log cabin portion of the quilt. I did some more rectangular swirls on the trunk of the tree to try and mimic a log cabin and/or the knots you would see in a tree trunk.

 

To finish the quilt off I 'pillow cased' a fun leaf print to the back .

 

I'm excited to hear what other's think of my apple tree and this tree was created with love in Poynette, WI.

 

PS. Can you tell I have trouble with short and sweet narratives!?

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