Brunswick Forest, Block Seven
Posted on March 12, 2022 by prairiemoonquilts in Brunswick ForestTime to dive into the second half of the Brunswick Forest BOM!
Block Seven is called Apple Tree. Another easy one with very few triangles.
Here it is in the fall-colored version:
Here’s the non-traditional color way. I didn’t plan it that way, but I like how the print in this one made those little crosses in the patches:
And here’s my scrappy one. This month’s “color” was red-and-white polka dot (to look like apples — see what I did there?):
Lately, I’ve been rummaging through all my vintage items. For one thing, I love looking through them and dreaming up projects I’ll do “someday” or “in my retirement”, and for another, I am trying to get them all organized in one place all together. I still have a few stragglers that I’ve stashed in odd places, but I’m making headway on it all.
And . . . every once in awhile, I pull out one of the projects to work on. And look what I found in one of the bins! Seems quite timely, right?
There are 16 of these partial blocks, and I’m planning to finish them and put them into a quilt together. All I have is the tree parts, and one of them is missing part of the tree, but basically all I have to do is add the background and the trunks, and they’ll be finished!
I’m using some vintage muslin from my stash for the background, and a new brown solid for the tree trunks. Isn’t it cute?
This block is just like our Apple Tree block this month, only smaller, finishing at 9″; so since I had to re-draft my own pattern to make it fit these tree tops, I thought I’d also offer this optional version of the block to you. It’s a free download you can grab right here: AppleTree.
While my vintage blocks were hand-pieced, and I’m intending to finish them all with hand piecing, the instructions are for machine piecing, which will go much faster. I’ll probably also set mine together on the machine once my blocks are all ready. And I want to do a pieced border, but I won’t be doing that by hand, either. There’s nothing at all wrong with using a combination of hand and machine piecing, just in case you were wondering!
I had to make a block to test my instructions, so look at this cutie:
Someone please stop me from making another entire tree quilt out of all new scraps!
Love these blocks! Thanks for sharing!!
Love it!
I can’t wait to see that one with the vintage blocks!
Finding those unfinished blocks just as we are all doing Brunswick Forest is crazy!
It’s interesting to see how the vintage tree quilt blocks are pieced with matching pairs of scraps. Thanks for the pattern for that block.
Stop! Stop! I can’t believe you would even start thinking that direction with 3 color versions of the current quilt(s) and the vintage one you found and are finishing. There are only so many hours in a day and we are losing one hour Sunday. Lol Just use the one you made to be sure the directions were right as the label for the quilt. Hugs.
Thank you
With all of these different ways that you are doing, we know you’ll stay busy for a bit!
Thank you for the scrappy tree block. I love it!
Those vintage blocks are great!