girls in trees tutorial

I fell in love with the girls in the trees and thought a fun wall hanging would be a perfect project.

 

I began by fussy cutting different girls.  Notice that I added ¼ inch so that when I sewed the pieces together I wouldn’t lose part of the trees.

I placed several in possible layout.

Sew 1.5 inch strips into units

I actually cut down the strips to 1.25 to 1 inch to keep with the size of the girls in trees blocks.  Since I don’t like sewing with smaller strips, I started with two 1.5 inch strips and then cut them down after sewing them together

I just kept building and adding strip set, changing the direction, and even adding more fussy cut pieces to fill out the size I desired.

I sewed this piece together in rows.  In this picture you can see how I have sewn this row together.

Here is my completed top ready to be trimmed and quilted.

After I sandwiched the top with batting and backing fabric from this line, I am ready to quilt.  I used a simmer rayon thread and did free motion quilting to hopefully look like wind blowing gently in the trees.  I really love how this piece finished!

Here is another view….just needs some binding.

This picture shows the back and the binding fabric I selected.

Another look at the finished front.  Thanks once again to Tamara Kate Design – such fun fabrics to play with!  Happy Sewing!