Finished Set

"Nothing dies as beautifully as Autumn." Ashlee Willis

There was another frost last night...not around our condo...but here and there on our chilly morning walk this morning.

These photos are from the hood and the windshield of a car.

Aren't Mother Nature's patterns fabulous!

I worked on another UFP today.  A year or so ago I made several of these scrappy trees....the first one for my friend Patty that I wrote about here. I gave several away and had a couple requests for this year.  

I had these two in my stash last year....and offered one or both to Jane for her collection.  We both agreed that it would make a nice set if there was a third medium sized one. So that's what I did today.

I cut my tree shape out of foam core and fused black striped fabric around the edges.  The corners are kind of fussy.  Then I traced the shape onto the release paper. 

I fused strips of fabric onto the release paper overlapping them as I went. Once I covered the tree shape I filled in with skinnier accent strips and finally cut it out.

Then I fused it onto one side of the tree.  The other side is one piece of Christmas fabric matching the other two trees. I covered a skewer with black and white striped tissue and attached it to the tree and the base. I also covered the tiny tree trunk with black and white so they all would match.  Now it's a nice little set for Jane's tree collection.

Another UFP is now a finished set! 

I have one more large tree to make....hopefully tomorrow.