Love all the posted blocks, the colors and ideas are so lively. You all are real go-getters, and they are beautiful.
Have been staying off the Board (houseguests, backyard renovation, jumbled busy-ness is my August so far).
Also I did not want to post until I had something to show.
I vowed to do piecing this time as my skills at piecing are hit-or-miss. First I DID piece a green spectrum and then cut out shapes to make my trees... then was applique-ing by hand (the snowdrift and trunk) before I realized it! The tree foliage is machine-appliqued, my first time using a variable-colored thread.
I know it's simple but it still took a long time!
So here it is, untrimmed yet but will be 12.5" as agreed. I hope to follow a pattern for my next set in order to do an entirely pieced block from a book I have.