Building Trees

I've been making trees and moving some around. I've decided that I don't need TWO rows of trees at the bottom because I don't want to make an enormous quilt.

I've also started sewing some of these trees together, mostly as a way to remember where they go, but also to see what happens. I've moved the red tree back to the top of this triangular portion.

I like the tree blocks with the light backgrounds, but I am not sure how I can carry that off because trees aren't usually alone, and this is a quilt about trees plural, so while a light/dark contrast of trees might be one way of dividing this quilt, I'm not sure that's what this quilt is about, so I have to play around with how I transition from dark to light and then dark again. 

It's also hard because the quilt will be bigger than my design wall and I can't see the whole thing all at once.  I've got some errands to run and tasks to accomplish on Saturday, then I can go into the studio and make more trees (thanks Rondi) and see where this goes.

Overall I'm happy and excited, and I haven't been worked up about a quilt in a while, so this is fun.