Help with tree
 

How do you make the trees? HST?

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To me, it looks like two flying geese rectangles on top of the trunk piece.

Edit: Sorry, not enough coffee yet this morning. Only the top strip could be a flying geese. The middle one could be a flying geese like the top one, but cut down (maybe in half?).

I think the the top is a flying geese block and the lower one is a rectangle with a background square sewn across the corner like a hst. The square being as high as the rectangle. (Say the rectangle measures2 1/2 by 5 1/2 then you would cut the square 2 1/2, draw a line from corner to corner, and stitch on that line.) Does that make sense? Cute table topper btw.

I'd make 2 flying geese units and trim the top off one of them. You would loose a little bit of fabric, but I think this would be the easiest method. Looks like about half the height, but I would make the 2 units lay one down and put the other one on top adjusting the position until it looks right to you. Mark where the edge of the top unit touches the bottom one, add a 1/4" seam allowance and trim the excess.

Thanks. Im going to do a few practice pieces.

I would make it with strips and sew the corners on, to look like the above pic.

Looks like they used two squares with an HST on the bottom tier. If you look closely, you can see the stitching lines.

Could it possibly be Paper Piecing?

This looks like the perfect paper pieced tree to me. Draw the tree on paper, start with the lower corner ( background, tree trunk, background), put green for the bottom tree, put background on the left side, then the right side, next do the tree top, then background on the left and right.

I think I could have one of those done in a jiffy!

I would paper piece the trees. It is a common pattern.

Looks like a Moda fabric collections. Have you look at their website to see if the pattern is there???

Haven't you heard? Only God can make a tree?

I made this type of tree in another pattern. The bottom block is oblong with small squares sown onto the ends and cut off at an angle. For instance in my pattern the bottom blocks were one green piece that was 2 1/2" x 8 1/2" with the lighter color fabric being 2 1/2" square and one 2 1/2" square sown to each end of the longer green piece at an angle and the remainder cut off.

I made a pot holder with a tree using paper piecing.

Unless you are dead set on having a square in the center, I'd go with a pattern like this one where the two tree tiers are tapered (say that five times fast!)...more like a real tree. You could easily adapt this to just two tiers and any size.

http://quilting.about.com/od/blockof...stmas_tree.htm

I think the top one is a flying geese and the 2nd one is a rectangle with snowballed corners. Actually the top one could be a rectangle too, just bigger

Susan

My first idea was that it was 2 flying geese, but it could also be a square/rectangle with HST's on either side. However it was done, it's a fabulous quilt, love those fabrics.

They aren't squares/rectangles with HSTs on the sides. Look at the chevron print one. Unless the maker is sublime at matching diagonal stripes, there is no seam anywhere in that fabric on either tree tier. There are shadows from the quilting lines, but no seams because the chevrons are uninterrupted side to side.

thanks ghostrider...