Barefoot Earth Tales – Folk Art Tree Quilt

My son and I started this after reading a book called “Barefoot Earth Tales” a few years ago.
I pulled it out last week. I think the crab apple tree blossoming and the rains lately and all the green that is around has built up my desire to work on this.

We still have these trees to create out of fabric.

I did make an album in Flickr with all the pics I have taken of this project so far.

I have also been putting together two galleries of trees that I think are so amazing from Flickr.

Gallery II 

and Gallery I

I divided out the Tree of Life photos I like and put them into their own Gallery. I would imagine most quilters have a life list of quilts they would like to make. The Tree of Life is on my list!

 

Spinning round and round

I am very excited about a new quilt I started on May 25th – It is an idea that has been in my head for a few years now.

I am going to follow the colorwheel with  blue – purple- red – orange – yellow- green – and back to blue

Red is the easiest color to work with. I seem to have a lot of red fabrics.  I pulled the orange fabrics I have and tried to sort them by the orange fabrics that were darker with red tones to the ones that have more of a yellow tone to them.
I intend to have the music fabric on the lower side and then on the top.

I don’t know if you can see it yet but the top and bottom of the light spiral is in cream tones the sides have more white.

I am hoping this will give it more depth.

On June 6th I was able to go outside for a while and cut a few more strips of fabrics.

It is wonderful to be outside this time of year.