Newbie offering trees

With hindsight, December wasn't the best month to be joining you lovely ladies, but I'd lurked long enough, watching all the patchwork loveliness here, so decided it was time to join in.

I found I didn't have much in the way of jewel colours, and I don't normally wash my fabrics first, so that delayed me a bit.

I have photographed two pairs of trees, but I understand that they don't both qualify as they aren't unique jewel fabrics. The smaller ones were my first attempt but they had much less contrast between the two tiers than I wanted, so I didn't want to risk wasting the second half of the fabric, so the top trees are my offering. I hope they are acceptable. I'm loving seeing the forest growing day by day :-)

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