Friday, December 19, 2025

Tree of Life Quilt Is Complete

I took this pic Wednesday night after finishing it at school.  I had to find a shady spot to get a snow pic.  Earlier this week the temperature was 7 degrees with a feels-like temp of negative 2 degrees.  


I'm not that thrilled with the arrangement of the blocks, but I do LOVE the block quilting on this one.  I thought it was fitting to get a nice pic of it the snow.  Yesterday it got up to 50 degrees with lots of rain.  Bring on the soupy driveway mud...  I backed it with a solid piece of blue gingham.

Tree of Life measures 41.5" square.


I'm linking up at Angela's blog, SoScrappy, for the RSC25 here. This was one of my RSC projects.  I had planned to make this quilt larger, but was unhappy with the color combos and decided to make it a 4-block quilt.  I may make a red tree quilt someday.  Three of these trees hung pinned to my curtain by my sewing machine for a very long time.  That's where I keep tricky blocks so that I can refer to it when I put a block together.  My new block I put there might be another RSC project (a fish). Stay tuned...

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This is my 15th Ravelry UFO finish this quarter.

Here's my Fall 2025 Ravelry UFO Club Projects:

1.  Bit Con double sized quilt -- Needs more rows of strips sewn together

2.   Rail Fence 3.5" RSC block -- 900 blocks needed/need arranged

3.  Piccadilly Circle -- Need a few more circle blocks

4.  Kite Girl -- Needs sashing sewn and put together

5.  Folk Art Birds -- Need more birds and alternate blocks

6.  Bear Claw Mini -- Needs finished hand quilting and binding (very close to being done)

7.  Maroon Sampler -- Needs two more blocks

8.  Old Town -- finished 10/31/25

9.  Pineapple Table Runner -- Completed 10/24/25

10.  Four Patch Fun -- Bonnie Hunter leader/ender -- Continue making blocks

11.  Blue Embroidery Quilt -- sixth finish 11/7/25

12.  HST -- Needs more blocks made and sewn into rows

13.  Tree of Life -- 15th finish 12/17/25

14.  Scarborough Fair -- Needs more blocks made

15.  Unity Quilt (Bonnie Hunter 2020) -- finished 12/11/25 -- 14th finish

16.  Card Trick -- binding almost done

17.  Acorn Harvest -- Quilt top needs assembled

18.  Sail Away crib quilt -- Blocks need sewn

19.  Fall Table Topper -- Completed 10/3/25

20.  Scattered Stars -- Completed 10/10/25

21.  Fireflies Wall Hanging -- Blocks need appliqued

22.  Shirting Blocks -- finished 11/28/25

23.  Pinwheels -- finished 11/14/25. 7th finish

24.  Bright 9-patches -- finished 12/8/25 12th finish

25.  Random Blue Blocks -- Hand Quilting -- In the hoop

26.  Dicey -- Blocks need sewn together with sashing and cornerstones

27.  Rainbow Ribbons -- 11th finish 12/5/25

28.  Kathleen Tracey Fall SAL (Darting Birds) Finished 11/21/25

29.  Blue Orphan Block Table Topper -- finished 12/9/25, 13th finish

30.  Summit Stitches 2025 Quilt Along at Humble Stitches (25" square project) Completed 12/1/25




9 comments:

Julierose said...

This would make a lovely table topper with room for a pretty bowl/centerpiece in the white central portion and your pretty trees would still show up so well!!
Nice finish --so pretty on the snow, too...hugs, Julierose

patty a. said...

I like this quilt! The trees look like they are twirling! You got the binding done fast. Congrats on another finish!

Linda Swanekamp said...

That is one tricky pattern to do 4 of! Looks great. Snow, not so much.

Melisa- pinkernpunkinquilting said...

Oh how pretty, Kathy! And what lovely photos with the snow as a backdrop.

Astrid said...

Your little quilt is pretty, Kathy. Love the trees. Ditto to what Julierose says; it would make a nice table topper with a centerpiece decor. Congrats on another finish!

Vicki W said...

That turned out great!

Sara said...

Very pretty - with a very modern look.

LIttle Penguin Quilts said...

That does look like a very tricky block! I love your quilt of four of them, each in a different color. Hooray for finishing it up!

Sue said...

This looks just fabulous! Congrats on finishing!