I started by making a trunk with some batik scraps I'd used for treetrunks before, then added slender branches. Then it was a matter of how to add leaves; leaf-shapes wasn't quite going to work on these branches with multicoloured scraps, but flowers? Aha. Lots and lots and lots of fusing, a whole set of freehand stars (ow scissors: some of the stars are less than half an inch across) and some variegated embroidery thread later...

If you look up close, it is a rather fantastical tree!

7 comments:
This is absolutely incredible. I love it. Such a great job.
Good call with the flowers. It looks nice!
I love it! Great job!
Whoa! Did you hand stitch those. That is such a cool tree!
Yes, the flowers are (securely!) hand stitched and the trunk is machine stitched.
Lucky number sixty! Talk about fantastic! This is phenomenal! Beautiful and well done!
I want one of those growing in my garden! that is one fab tree!
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