Hi, thanks for the lovely feedback. More pics are posted now....
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I started this with some real study of what I wanted to do without doing anything. Sounds silly, but I just needed to think. Then I started drawing trees. Tree trunks, that is. And i made them all women. You can't really tell, but this tree is actually my Mom. T he trunk is her body, turned into a tree. I'm planning a series of trees using all the women I love or care about. Anyhow, I had a blast designing the trunk. I like to use commercial print fabric as much as I can, turning the design into "other things". So I hunted and found just the right stuff and then made the pattern out of freezer paper and Misty Fused it to the background.
I couldn't think what to do then and just left it. And dreamed the solution (I just love that), or at least the shape and look. I went looking for batiks and found just the right ones, one green mottled and one orange. I also had some pieces floating around that we e used for emphasis. I pinned the pieces on (all just freehand cut) and fiddled and then started putting them on with a dab of gluestick. Now I'm going back and Misty Fusing the whole thing down. The tree trunk is already sewn. I will stitch around the outside edges as much as possible and then I'll FH the whole thing to look like what I want.
Okies, that's it. Not much to t ell really. I don't know that I want anything in the tree. But I'm looking at a rock wall behind it, low, with a long shadow.
Anyhow, it's nap time for this insomniac.
Hugs (anotherone for you Karen, or even two :) )
Sunny