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Drum roll please - my Tree Of Life quilt - pattern by Lynette Anderson Designs - is ready to be layered with backing fabric and wadding while I deliberate over how to quilt it. Initially purchased as a 5-part BOM from Cross Patch back in 2019, this wasn't started until a couple of months ago. The sweet hand painted wooden buttons (that were supplied each month with the pattern instructions) will be stitched in place once the quilt is completed. 
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When I first purchased this 5-part BOM called Tree of Life by the Australian desiner Lynette Anderson, the patterns arrived one block per month, with instructions to construct one set of log cabin blocks once each appliqued bird had been stitched. As I'd already got all the instructions for this quilt, I decided to wait until the quilt centre had been stitched before I started these small log cabin blocks. The centres of these tiny blocks are embroidered - and rather than stitch the embroidery once each block had been constructed (as per the original instructions) I decided to do all of the embroidery first. So I set to and ruled a grid onto the front of the yarn dyed background fabric, then using a lightbox and a fine nibbed Micron Pigma pen, I traced all the different bugs and flowers that were then embroidered using a selection of variegated Valdani hand-dyed stranded embroidery threads...
...prior to the hand embroidery, I'd fused a thin lightweight interfacing onto the wrong side of the yarn-dyed background fabric. This gives a bit of "body" to the fabric. Once the snails, ladybirds, bees and flowers had all been hand embroidered, I carefully cut along the grid lines with a rotary cutter. This is a great project for using up lots of scraps, and I've used a huge selection of scraps from my box of Lynette fabrics for the log cabin blocks - so no two blocks are the same...
...once the first block was stitched so I could check it for size, I was able to chain piece the remaining 29 blocks. These are just 4.5" square, and I've used a neutral coloured Bottomline 60wt polyester thread for the piecing, along with a size 60 Schmetz Microtex needle. Once all of the blocks were completed, they were pressed on a wool pressing mat with a warm iron, then loined together to make the borders...
...this shows a little peek of one of the corners of the quilt, once the borders had been attached. Now the quilt top just needs a good press ready for a photoshoot!  |
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