DISCOVERING TREE IMAGES          APRIL 2025 

36”h X 55”w

I was drawn to this project as a way of getting to know better an old friend. These limbs are all part of a single tree. It’s a fairly small tree, about fifteen feet high. It lives right outside my art studio window. I see it all the time.

In winter before the leaves returned, I looked at it and became intrigued with the complexity of its branches. I love the patterns created. The positive and negative spaces.

To create the quilt, I worked my way through the steps of drawing, painting, and stitching. I enlarged a photo of the tree onto paper, then traced it directly onto prepared cotton muslin. This became the working composition. The first limb I explored is the large one with hand-written text. I sat by my fabric for several hours and just wrote thoughts and phrases, messages that might be spoken by the tree.

After that, I kept the piece as a whole cloth, masking out sections of – first — the background, so I could print patterns inside the trees and – then – the foreground so I could paint in the background.

The piece is machine stitched, with quilting stitches covering the entire surface.

The quilt includes a hanging rod and  two  D-rings on the back in an attached pocket. It installs easily, hanging from two nails or picture hooks.

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