a bit of stitching ... a bit of sauna

"November" is taking shape,

the little trees in the distance are done.

I love how the middle one turned out :

made with a bundle of old embroidery thread

At the bottom I doubled the threads and pinned them down

and devided the ends into branches, big and smaller ones,

then I stitched the lot.

The ends of the threads that were too long

I put in a needle and took them to the backside.

For the big tree in front I tried several strips of brown fabric

At first I thought to piece the trunk between the background pieces

but I decided against it because then the size would not be right

( all the journal quilts are cut the same size : 21 x 30 cm )

I just placed the tree trunk on top of the background

folded it and stitched it down with extra space,

to pleat it down while stitching.

( I still need to think where to put my magic thread in this one )

When the Novemder day is cold and gloomy we always decide

to end it in our warm and cosy sauna.

So that's what we did today.