Four Hours of......

COOKIES
A couple of hundred cookies etc PLUS Fruit Cake

Funny I don't come away from four hours of sewing feeling nauseous.
(All that cookie dough, all those bowls to lick.)

Mountain Pine - Day 3

I wanted to finish anchoring all the pieces and to see just how much quilting might be necessary.
I outlined all the snow and the rock varieties. Beyond that any stitching really didn't seem to show, so I can leave it and fill in as necessary at the end.
Just love that mono filament thread.

In addition to that work which fixed all the carefully butted 'snow' and tulle overlay, I put in the tree trunks. The two major ones are rolled and stitched and the rest were fused.

Most of the work for the next little while will be hoop and tulle work. Now that I'm at this point I can stop or pick it up for a few hours or a few minutes. As this part is similar to the piece I made in 2014 I don't think there will be any surprises.

That gives me time to shop, bake, cook a couple of major dinners, play with my grandson.
Clean? Well, as I have to do some baby proofing that might go hand in hand.

Have a Great Holiday!

No Sewing today!

Spent the day with Hubby

Christmas Shopping

Sewing? Maybe tomorrow!

😁🌲 

Mountain Pine -Day 2

I'm feeling my way through this as I haven't decided on the finish. It needs to be fully quilted before I apply the main trees, but that's still the question.

I went back today and disassembled everything down to the rock application.
All the cheesecloth/organza was stitched down.
All the batting snow was glued into place.
All the green precipice trees were glue tacked, (that's all they're going to get)

The 'snow' was reposition, trimmed and tucked under the foreground cliffs.
The tulle anchor was stitched into place along the foreground rock.
Whew!

Enough for today.

Mountain Pine - Day 1

Four fabrics plus white batting for the snow. A pretty simple palette really. The detail will come from the stitching.

I made a large cartoon to help with the placement of the rockfalls and ledges that are suggested in the photo. Upon close examination the ledges are all covered with trees. We'll see how much is really necessary.

I experimented yesterday layering bits of cheesecloth, tulle and organza trying to develop the foggy or hazy look from the photo. Is it snow?

Today I cut and layered, pinned only this time. After several variations I came up with this.

 

Over the background ( which was flannel, all I had) I used a combination of chessecloth and organza to replicate the colour of the cliff face on the left.
Over this, white batting was cut to suggest snow covered ledges. This was covered with a split piece of poly batting, gently pulled apart into 2 thinner layers. And finally over that, tulle anchored everything in place.

Nothing is stitched.
So I'll live with this for a few days? or not. The tulle and poly 'haze' will need to be removed in order to stitch the distant trees clinging to the mountain side.
This is definitely one of those times where the background will need to be completely finished before the tree feature is added.
Lots to think about here.