Adding the Date Palm Tree

This is the Date Palm tree, untrimmed and pinned to quilt top background. Date trees were very important to the Egyptian people.

The Making of the Date Palm Tree

This is the Date Palm Tree I made last night. I was made using free-motion stitching on a Solvy sandwich. I will need to trim the tree after I put the two parts together.

Free-motion Quilting the Background for Texture

I have spent the past few days doing free-motion stitching and regular straight-stitching on the background of my quilt. I will be working on the date palms next. I also want to add some steps on the right side of the quilt. I will be using watercolor pencils to color the brick-like tiles in front of the garden.
I am going to take a one-day break to do some beadwork before starting the palm tree.
I am going to make dates to go on the date palm tree and also make a few dates to go in the basket of figs I am adding to the quilt. I have made black and white drawings for the date palm and I have fused some fabrics to be used to make the date palm trunk. The truck fabrics will be cut into fabric snippets and fused to a background fabric.