slow coming spring - forest QAL

My forest blocks are growing as slowly as the spring was coming this year, so Julka's name for the most recent block in the forest QAL seems doubly fitting.
Still, the spring is here, and so is at least this block:

My plan now is to sew first the blocks that fit best the idea of a quilt I'm planning to sew with the forest blocks, but then my sewing plans are often changing  evolving.

aspen grove - forest QAL

Yesterday I finally managed to sew the aspen grove block, which is block 3 of the forest QAL.
It's not very hard to sew, it just has lots of pieces. Naturally, it's taken me a long time to put together - I'm a rather slow sewer (gosh, it looks wrong - sewist? seamstress? /for those reading Pratchett - no, not that kind of seamstress/)
But it was quite relaxing and enjoyable.

You'll find the more "official" looking photo of the whole block here, but I like this one taken just after sunrise, although I had to crop my ugly hanger.
I was hoping for an early spring look, with bare trees and flowers blooming before the grass even shows, so I altered the pattern a little to add some branches to the trees and stuck to just one fabric for the forest floor.
I think with a bit of imagination and goodwill we can say I succeeded ;)

Small finishes - part 2

The little sampler quilt only needed binding, so it's finished, too.

in tricky morning light

a simple back

I'm very happy about finishing the next item from my Q2 FAL list, but I think it's a sign some new projects need to begin.

Small finishes - part 1

Last weekend I was planning to tackle the aspen grove block from the forest QAL, so it's very logical that I sewed the reversible apron from my Q2 FAL list instead.

I know what some of you think about brown fabric, but it's warm reddish-brown and it matches my new red hair nicely (which is a bit of a lucky coincidence).