Sumac

I'm working on some ideas to go with a poem I found.   I will share the poem later with my finished piece.   The essence of it is the changing scenes of November,   Always a gray month it seems and this year also very cold.   The poem deals with changing beauty that occurs within one month,   I started with a photo I had taken of some sumac which had changed into its glorious pink, orange and yellow colors.

I decided to use  dark green fabric I had and do some tile or mosaic appliqué on it to portray the greenery seen here,   In this process I appliqué strips that are 3/4 x 3 inches.    Placed on a handdyed background you can see the various shades coming through the spaces to give movement and variety.  

I then set out to appliqué leaf shapes onto this tiled background.   I used cording for the branches.   This is how it is right now,    I thought it was done, but now I'm not so sure.   I left plenty of fabric around the tiled area in case I want to go further.

So.....stay tuned to see how it evolves.   I will be starting another panel similar to this showing how November morphs into winter.