Week 17/2020: What’s on my design wall?

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So, we have made more trees. The novelty of picking fabrics has worn off a bit so I’ve also added some of my own combinations. To a couple of pieces I’ve added a bit of white and silver fabric so they became large enough to turn them into rectangles. When I’m happy with the composition, I’ll have to find a way to piece all these differently sized pieces together. The gaps will be filled with white and black fabrics. I’m having fun so far.

April 24, 2020

Emmely Treffers

About Emmely

I am a sewing enthusiast from the Netherlands. I live in the Leiden area with my husband and two daughters and I am currently working as a senior researcher in molecular virology. With my quilting patterns and sewing blog I want to infect as many people as possible with my love for sewing.

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12 Comments

  1. katechiconi

    I love the randomness of the colours and shapes. I hope you’ll be able to retain that in the assembled piece, so it’s like a natural forest instead of a plantation!

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    • Emmely

      Oh, the plantation look is definitely not what I am after! I fear I may end up sewing some Y-seams…

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      • katechiconi

        Yes, I do foresee one or two of those in your future! Unless you can follow some sort of log cabin construction process?

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        • Emmely

          Hmm, interesting idea…. maybe I can combine some assembly methods. I dismissed the construction challenges as I was making the trees as “that’s a problem for future Emmely”. I suppose I now am future Emmely…

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  2. marissthequilter

    I can see you are having fun — this is delightful. It is going to make a lovely bright forest quilt

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    • Emmely

      I think it will be perfect for a child’s room with all the different prints and fabrics and I’ll be able to look at it often so I hope it will continue to bring joy.

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  3. tierneycreates

    Oh my goodness – your trees volume has grown! They look wonderful and so colorful! Oh to connect them together you could border each block with a fabric and then cut them all the a uniform size. To keep it interesting you could trim each block (use more fabric then you need when you border) to an off kilter trim.

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    • Emmely

      I have started assembly and am going down the jig saw route. I am trying to find pieces that seem to fit well together to create larger units that can then be fitted together as well. I create even more trees as needed to fill up some gaps. I want to avoid a seam that goes all the way from top to bottom or left to right. This means I am going to do the much dreaded Y-seams, which after I tried one turned out not to be scary at all! Major revelation. I think this is exactly what my brain needs right now. A bit of a puzzle challenge to keep my mind from thinking too much about other things that I have absolutely no control over.

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      • tierneycreates

        That sounds like an awesome idea – cannot wait to see how it comes out! Conquer those Y seams 🙂

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        • Emmely

          I will! Actually already looking forward to them! :-O

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    • Emmely

      Thank you!

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