Spring Landscape improved.

While the Spring landscape shows up the stitched buds wonderfully on a photo, it did not show up in person as well.  It looked dull to me.  I took a sea sponge, just dipping the very tips into rust paint and added more buds, more vivid interesting buds.  Then the Spring landscape had a sparkl

Applique on the long arm

My sister wanted 17" quilts for the center of the table.  I did them non traditionally.  

Because I wanted a finished quilt of 17"  I started with a 19 inch painted sky.  I made my quilt sandwich with only the backing, batting and sky fabric.

I quilted that, no trees yet just the sky.  Then I fused on the  trunks of the trees.  But on the Summer and Fall quilts, I put some of the leaves on that would be under the trunk and branches.   Then I quilted my trunk down and quilted in the branches right over any leaves that had been put down.

I fused on more leaves on Summer and Fall and then quilted down all of the leaves.  The Spring buds are doodle quilting to represent the buds just starting to open.  

When doing the Fall quilt, I decided to fussy cut one leaf and add the single leaf to Winter.

Now they will be bound with a charcoal grey.