Walk in the Woods - Background 3

The top background is assembled .....to a point.

The master plan is to incorporate a margin in order to create a false border hopefully giving the piece a more quilt like feeling. Some of the trees fall under the border, the rear ones and some fall over top, the near ones.
Deciding which is which  is the 'fun' part!
How wide to make the margin, how big to make the trees. There is a lot of trial and error here.

For now....I need to spend some time stitching the 'background' to augment the light fusible web material and anchor the ones that are simple glue tacked.

Walk in the Woods - Background 2

The Foliage starts to become important even though the shapes are rather amorphous.

After I auditioned some paper trees to check on the dimensions I spent the rest of the time cutting 'branches'. For now these are being fusing using a narrow web strip around the edge. This time only the first 2 to 3 inches at the top is fixed. That allows me to tuck underneath.

It's very difficult to photograph this properly between the ceiling and the edge of my LA.

Walk in the Woods - Background

So after a couple of false starts I came to grips with the process and the size for this piece. The background is complete, ie the colouring blocking defines the regions and the under layers of the background as well as replacing the need for interfacing.
As there were no blocks to join together there needed to be a supporting layer on which to build.
These regions define the size and importance of each area, whether it is the deep background or the foreground.

The rest now is eye candy.

Walking in the Woods

New start.
Here's what I've got to work with. Should be enough choice here.

First the background
Big job today was cutting an piecing for some tiling the centre section. Four fat quarters cut scrambled and resewn.

Walk in the Woods - Starting over

This has hardly been ............ a Walk in the Woods.

While I really enjoyed making all those blocks I've come to realize they aren't meant for this project.
This is a lap quilt and I want a softer approach.

I really really like some of the blocks but not here.

I pulled a lot of material out of drawers and cupboards this morning. I pinned a lot to the wall and decided I was wrong on two counts.

1. I can use raw applique if I go with bigger pieces
and
2. I can use batik................and I seem to have quite a bit of batik.

A few years ago I purchased on line a lot of Fat Quarter samples of full fabric lines. That was when the $ wasn't so depressed. Mixing these lines there are some nice possible transitions

So...

That decided, it was time for a diagram.

This is a lap quilt and the finished size I'm aiming for is roughly 45x60"

Tomorrow I will put away and save the crazy quilt blocks and round up the scraps into their colour bags.

Then I can start over.