Thread trees!

I finished up a couple of veterans quilts yesterday and saw that I had about 4" of batting and backing on one side of one quilt and decided that I would do some more thread trees.

I started with a stack of 4" x 6" pieces of white fabric. That's the size of a postcard so I knew if I kept my tree inside that space that I'd have the right size tree. I sketched a tree shape on the fabric but you will see that I didn't really follow that at all.

I liked the colors of this cone of thread and it's also about to run out so this is what I'm going to use until the cone is empty.

Thread sketch a wonky tree shape.

Start filling in and pretty much ignore the stitched outline.

Keep piling on the thread until a tier is finished. Move to the next tier and stitch some more. It's very meditative to do this.

Don't worry about the wayward lines. They will get cut away.

What a good use of the extra backing and batting. I feel so smugly clever.

And economical for using up 3 bobbins! The backs of these trees are pretty ugly but no one will see them.

Oh boy, do I like these!  I have a head start on the 2018 Christmas cards.

With that I'm going to take a few days off the blog for Christmas. I'll be back Wednesday or Thursday of next week.