Tiny Tree

I love the black silhouettes of the winter trees against the morning sky....

....and the evening sky.  I love the trees in all the seasons.

I settled in last night to make a tiny tree....or that's what I thought.  

I made a whole series of framed tiny birch trees several year ago....they were just 2 by 3 inches.  You can read about them here: https://joyfulputtering.blogspot.com/2018/10/tiny-trees.html.  

I love tiny things....and I especially love the idea of a "tiny tree."  

My process remained the same.  I edged a piece of foam core with striped fabric....then fused the colorful fabric strips onto release paper.

Following the outline on the back of the release paper....

I cut it out and fuse it on the the foam core.

There are 26 strips of fabric in this 6 inch tree.  It's definitely smaller...and it's most certainly skinnier than the others I've made. But I realized this morning that it's really not all that tiny.

So in between my putting away Christmas chores.... I tried another one. This time I think it was worthy of being called a tiny tree. I do want to do something more interesting for the trunk....for now it's mounted on a green toothpick.

I'm still having fun with these fused fabric trees....

and one of them is actually pretty tiny. 😊