Glitter Trees
 

I made a basic arrangement of applique green trees in muted colors. I machine stitched the applique. A layer of very sparkly green tulle was pinned over the quilt. I added FMQ to the trees and the tulle gave more texture and dimension. The sky has my version of snow. The best part was the whole quilt was now very shimmering and sparkly. There was a problem with a missing piece of tulle in a corner. Since I was already in sparkly land, I decided to add gold lame in the corner, I know, gold lame! I did some fancy stitching in gold metallic thread and even added some sunbeams. Of course, what my gold lame sun with sunbeams needed was crystals, naturally. It did not turn out as horrible as it sounds. Take a look. Pictures fail to capture just how glittery the whole thing is. It sparkles.

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Your stitching added so much to the beauty of your quilt.

Very creative use of alternative fabrics - looks like you had fun creating this one, it is lovely.

very creative. Good for you.

what great idea very nice!!

Great idea.................

It's beautiful. Love your quilting and putting the sun there was pretty clever.

Very nice! I like the border fabric also!

Great work and your stitching makes them!

Cute & creative!

Ah, so darn cute! Nice work.

You certainly had a sparkly day creating this....always room for sunshine!

Very nice! I love it! Your stitching is beautiful.

I like all of your detail work.

what a beautiful wall hanging

Oh, I really like that!

Very sparkly....it must look pretty when the night picks up the sparkles.

great sparkles, nicely done

Love your creative, sparkly quilt. Did the tulle behave ok when you quilted on top of it?

Very pretty and sparkly!

Very simple and elegant

I was surprised, it did not give me any trouble. A woman in a quilt shop says it actually makes your fabric behave better. It was very well behaved.

Very creative use of lame and tulle. Your FMQ is really good

Very nice- great stitching!

from snowmen to glitter trees, you have been a busy little quilter. Thank you for sharing another one of your great projects.

Very creative use of 'untypical' quilt materials. The stitching adds good dimension. Overall, you did a fabulous job. :-)

Very nice and creative - one of a kind!

very pretty

What a wonderful winter quilt. I'm going to try the tulle.

I think you did a great job on this, and I like the sun!

Isn't it fun how a project can progress from plain to lots of bling, with just a few well planned additions?! Bet you had fun.

Very pretty! I love all of your creative touches to it. You did an awesome job!

What a lovely piece of artwork! It has a very creative, organic feel to it. I love the free form trees and great stitching you've done.

A beautiful quilt.

You are an artist. I see your grouping of trees as shivvering, at first, and then they look interactive like a group of young girls on the playground, very friendly, and third, they are responding to the warm presence of the sun. Very effective and I like sparkly. The overall effect is very understated, which works well, and your stitching is just right. BEAUTIFUL.

Beautiful!!! That looks like it took a lot of time quilting.

WOW!! that is gorgeous, thank you for sharing

Beautiful work!!

You are soooo talented! I love this and your quilting is over the top. Thank you.

Yep very creative, nicely done :)