ADDITIONS

 Finished quilting these two turkeys and then stepped back to see how I was liking the scene.

 Decided the original placement of the other turkeys was not as good as adding a few more and moving them around.   Sketches are only that ...... once you begin you can see better layouts and perhaps the need for more trees and more turkeys. 

I had just enough time to quilt down the left hand side trees...the right hand side ones will have to stay loose until the turkeys go in.....and that is for another day!

TREES TREES TREES

Still adding trees and quilting them as I do.   This will be all that will be added but some still need quilting and some needles put on two small pines.   Then comes the hard part....but I will not tell just yet.

Swing

Building the shoreline now.  The swing is in and will be hidden on the bottom by a bush and then grasses so trust me ....it will look so much better as this progresses.  Made another small pine in front of swing.

I must say I am tired today so will quit now and go watch the movie "Gravity".  Rented it along with a pizza this morning.  Then will work again tomorrow.  I am excited to do this shoreline now and get to the water for all that goes on it.  Hope you are enjoying this journey with me as I am in sharing it.

Furthest From The Shoreline

Well I just spent 3 hours at the machine quilting needles on these pine trees.   I need to get up and walk around and try to refocus my eyes!!!  However, all the furthest from the shoreline trees and shrubs are finished.  Now I will move into the edge of the shoreline and do the small shrubs, grasses and maybe even the pier.

I purposely left the lighter colored pine more open as I did not want to hide the house totally which it is in reality.  I am pretty satisfied with it so far and feel good that what comes next will enhance quite a bit.

Shoreline

Worked on the machine quilting most of the day.   All the leaves are quilted on from the birch trees.  Added another single birch and then the long needle pine and the trunk of another tree.  Then I began quilting on the long needles of the pine.  Lots of progress today.

Birch Trees

 Selected Fabric for the Birch trees.   Sometimes you just want something with specks in it and you can ignore the actual pattern that is on it especially when using long strips as in a trunk of a tree.

 So first trunk is on....used a colored pencil for some shading and black thread for details when quilting it on.

 Then there were two......

 And then three.........

 I begin adding the leaves.  This takes a lot of time and is a bit tedious.

Birches are in.

Birches

 I have added some birch trees and a couple other structures in the background.

 Here is a closeup of some ot the quilting  on the small structures in the far background.  I usually do not do anything fancy with my quilting.  I just try to reflect nature and in some cases the allusion of leaves or grass etc.

This is the larger barns and sheds. You can see the grasses growing around the base of the shed and the beginnings of a fence line. 

Off to my mother's now to help her out with a few things (she is 88) and then back home to the studio.  Taking my camera just in case I see something inspiring when I am there.