Last week, I left you after I had done some work on some birds. 

When I was done the birds, I began working on the point of the project - the tree. First I drew a pattern for the tree



I cut three of the pattern - one to use as a guide, one to actually cut up for piecing, and one for "just in case".

Once I had the pattern, I pinned one of them to my background,



(birds in place for my own amusement, not because I'm actually going to leave them there. )

And then cut up the second one into workable pieces.  I cut the pattern pieces in fusible interfacing, as my original plan was to fuse the pieces of fabric into place,


 but when I began the process, I realized that to achieve the look that I wanted I  needed to sew them on. 



I used a loden green cotton thread to do so, and once they were attached, I trimmed to fit the piece of interfacing.



Approximately one million hours later, I was finished piecing the tree parts, combined them, and ended up with this:


Now I am constructing approximately one million leaves. 

More on that, later.

Kit