Mountain Tree - Final

Living on the Edge

In the end I heavily cropped this piece.
This brings the trees forward
20x40 in.

Mountain Tree - Day 10

Mountain Pine - Day 9

Mountain Pine - Day 8

I had a really good session this morning and afternoon, so I can see some real progress now.

On the downside, I 'broke' my JUKI and had to set up my Husqvarna for the free motion work necessary to produce the branches. 😒
There is a LARGE wait time in my area for repairs as there are only a few places that do the work.
It will have to wait.
I can finish the piece on the Husqvarna.  😌

Mountain Tree - Day 7

Found the time to get back to this one.

A few dilemmas here. I ran out of the the very white batting I used for the large snow drifts and can't remember where I sourced it. I auditioned a few items included velvet and cotton balls and in the end went with the whitest batting I had. Most of the snow lodged in the trees will be hidden but.... I find things like that very annoying. The worst part was I lost a couple of days.

Noe that I'm working the remaining two major trees things have slowed down even more. Almost every branch is done as an individual and they are placed in a trial and error manner. While this method is very effective and useful...it is slow.