I enjoyed some extended sewing at the BHQG's West River quilt retreat last weekend. My biggest accomplishment was the quilting of two tree skirts. I picked up the tree skirt project at the charity quilt-a-thon in early October. Someone had donated the partially finished (and by "partially finished" I really mean "hardly started") project to the guild. I foolishly volunteered to finish it for the silent auction which is held at the guild Expo in March.
You can probably tell by the picture that this was not a quick and easy piece. That's 40 wedges cut out of fabric "strata" using a 9 degree ruler and then sewn together. Since I made two, that's 80 wedges. But they are now all done and quilted. I decided to put one of them in my Etsy shop to see if it will sell before Christmas (I will give the proceeds to the guild if it does). Here are some details of the quilting which was done with gold metallic thread. They do look really rich and pretty in person.