When I first started making this, I told you it was another piece inspired by the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series.  If you know the story - it refers to the last scene at the end of A Storm Of Swords - it's called "Catelyn At the Riverside"

The white (weirwood) tree represents Catelyn, and the other trees cowering before her are of course, her foes.  If you haven't read the books; have at it - interpret this as you will, and tell me what *you* see.  I've already gotten "trees dancing in the moonlight" - and would love to know your take!

Have an awesome weekend everyone, I look forward to seeing you on Monday!


Oh - and, if you're not a regular reader, the "how to" posts are here, here, here, here and of course, the "recipe post" here.

So, you'll remember on Monday, I had drawn out my trees on paper.  Since I was out of Steam-a-Seam, I actually used that paper as my template for my trees.  I did so by brushing thinned out craft glue onto the fabric, laying my paper template over top and cutting it out.  Which meant I had fabric with paper glued onto it when I was done.

And so later that day, BSP called out from the bathroom: "Honey, there's a tree in the sink. Should I wash my hands in the kitchen?" :)






After I had carefully dried out my fabric trees, I even more carefully sewed them down to my base.  (Those tiny little branches were VERY fiddly.)




referencing my original sketch of focal point, land and water.

Come by on Friday to see the finished product!

Which when layered together look like this:


To see what it looks like in fabric, come back on Wednesday!
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I'm really glad it's Friday!  With everything that's been going on my blogging routine has been all out of whack - I'm glad to get back to some normalcy finally!

So, when I left you I had begun the background quilting on this piece, and have since finished the background quilting. .





And then I added the focal point of the piece - this white tree. As you can see, it's not showing up well -  I'm hoping that quilting it with these copper and gold threads will make it pop.

Stay tuned... and have a great weekend!

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And here is where I am with my work right now...


Partially quilted!  Stay tuned...

The winner of the draw for Jennifer Chiaverini's latest book Sonoma Rose is...  ::drumroll::

Jody, of Come Tarry With Me!  Jody, please contact me with your snail mail address and I'll make sure the publisher sends you your prize!




and this is a new background for another Game of Thrones inspired piece I'm working on.

See you tomorrow for more progress!