'Aftermath" #1 in 3 forest pieces for Leigh Square

I think the name will stick, but there have been suggestion that it is winter. For me it is what we saw after the Barrier forest fires some years back. The area looked like this for a number of years..

Sharon's new piece

On the subject of the red quilt--isn't that funny--I also tried quilt as you go with a large piece, and ran into the same problem.  I made blocks for the central panel of the big church quilt.  It hangs badly.  I resolved to sew the whole thing on a backing--one of these days.

I love the Plum Tree.  To me, it has a very formal look.  I guess it's the leaded glass effect of the black.

New Year's Eve Completions: Judy

Here are the two big projects I've been working on this past year, both completed just before New Year's Eve!  The plum tree quilt is about 40"x60"; the Red Quilt is 48" by 65".  At the moment, the red quilt is not entirely willing to lie flat so either it needs more quilting or even more steaming.  But the problem, really, is in the way I constructed it (quilt as you go), which was less a decision than the result of my uncertainties as to whether this would work at all.  So, I made a piece, then quilted it, then thought maybe it would work but I needed to see more, so I made another piece and reevaluated.  And pretty soon, I'd gone too far to do anything but either start over or risk the lack of flatness.  In any case, it makes a gorgeous lap quilt and I found myself starting with a new one to do as a wall hanging.  There are still plenty of red fabrics in my collection.

I'm about to order up a bunch of 5x7" postcards of the plumtree quilt to send out as New Year's cards (or Presidents' Day or MartinLutherKing day or, at the rate i'm going, as Valentine's Day).  I will have it for the 'in the forest show' in any case.  Whenever that is.  --Judy