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E ditor's letter
I have been in love with trees all my life. I was a tree
hugger before I even knew there was a name for
loving trees. I’m entranced when I see the sunshine
glistening through the leaves and my ears perk up
when I hear the breeze rustling through them. Over
three decades I asked my dad to plant several trees
around the house: 2 cedars, 2 crabapples, 1 blue
spruce, and 1 birch, nestling the house just so.
Trees help our planet breathe by turning carbon
dioxide into clean, pure oxygen, as you’ve heard, but
I won’t get into a dissertation on trees just yet! Rather,
I will mention that a few years back I discovered
Suzanne Simard and her presentation on TED Talk that
expanded my appreciation for trees, as if that were
even possible! You’ve got to listen to her talk, she has
such a light in her eyes when she explains, “Trees are
the foundation of forests…” and how “…underground
there is this other world, a world of infinite biological
TREES
pathways that connect trees and allow them to
communicate with one another creating a single
organism.” And “Trees talk in terms of carbon,
nitrogen, phosphorus, and water, defense signals,
chemicals…”. It’s explosive to know everything
that goes on underground! See more on YouTube
about what she has to say about this fascinating
organism. Dr. Simard is a professor in the Department
of Forest and Conservation Sciences and teaches at
the University of British Columbia. She received her
PhD in Forest Sciences at Oregon State University.
By serendipity, she has just released her latest book
called Finding the Mother Tree May 4, 2021, the same
week I’m writing you this letter.
How trees talk to each other | Suzanne Simard
It’s not surprising then I would dedicate an Issue
to the topic of trees. I love what our contributors
have created from different perspectives and using
different techniques.
Sitting amongst the trees, engaged in some form of
needlework, is to be in good company.
As always, stay safe and stay calm.
Cheerfully,
Make & Stay Calm
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10 Heather McArthur
quilting
Oh, Christmas Tree
Advent Calendar
14 Cathy McClean
quilting
Canadian Fall Colours Placemats
20 Betty Biberdorf
quilting
Swing into Spring Wall Hanging
30 Lynn Swanson
quilting
Family Tree Wall Hanging
34 Clodagh Coker
quilting
Cardinal Woods Quilt
38 Olesya Lebedenko
foundation paper piecing
A Tree for Every Season Quilt Blocks
42 Paul Léger
quilting
The Pixelated Tree Quilt
46 Elaine Theriault
quilting
Under the Canopy Quilt
59 Cynthia MacDougall
knitting
Tilted Maple Leaf Henley
63 Lorraine Gregory
knitting
The Importance of Stitch Markers
64 Nancy Lekx
knitting
Pinecone Scarf and Headband
68 Nancy Lekx
knitting
Orchard Blossoms Shawl
70 Lorraine Thompson
knitting
Thoughful Soles Series
Gingham Apples Socks
74 Charles Voth
crochet
Crochet Bohemian Cardi
78 Jo Gatenby
cross stitch
Elemental Fractal Series
EARTH Part 1 of 4
84 Iryna Varabei
cross stitch
The Folktale of Baba Yaga
94 Kathy Andrews
needle felting
Painting My Forest With Wool
49 More Joy, Less Overwhelm
The Seed and Your Personal
Growth as a Quilter
Brandy Maslowski
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54 Deep Rooted
Heike Blohm
3 Editor’s Letter
6 Mark Your Calendars!
6 Advertiser Index
8 Heather McArthur
The Quilter's Connection
How to Make an Award
Worthy Quilt
56 Cynthia MacDougall
Knit Together
Bringing Trees into Knitting
67 Knitting
Standard Abbreviations
& Terms
98 Business Directory
Special Features
50 A Close Look at Couching
Ana Buzzalino
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97 Summer in the Forest
Sharon Johnston
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When I was a child, my family lived
in a post-and-beam house in the
country, with 14-foot ceilings in
the living room. At Christmas, my
dad and brothers would go out to
dad’s trapline, cut down the tallest
tree they could find, and haul it
home. The tree-top reached the
ceiling, and our entire family got
involved in the decorating. One
year, our cat decided to climb
the tree, and of course the tree
toppled over, breaking most of my
mother’s cherished heirloom glass
ornaments. From then on, we made
sure to tie the tree to the staircase
railing so it wouldn’t fall over!
Christmas has always held special
family memories for me, and that’s
why I’ve created a holiday advent
calendar for this issue. Don’t be
intimidated by the 3-D flying
geese - they are very easy to make.
This project does not have to be
Christmas themed, either. Simply
swap out the red fabric for an
additional green batik, add some
more green buttons, and you can
use this wall hanging any time of
the year! – Heather
Oh, Christmas Tree
Advent Calendar
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Canadian Fall Colours
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Swing into
Spring
Wall Hanging
Swing into
Considering a project that reflects
TREES the first thing that came to
mind was the swing we had on an old
cherry tree in our backyard. The tree
and swing have long been gone but
the memories live on! While on one
of our morning walks, I found the
perfect tree to use as inspiration for
my wall hanging.
To create the pattern for my wall
hanging I used my favourite new
method for tracing patterns. I have
an LED projector mounted to my
ceiling.
The picture is projected from my
computer (or tablet/phone) to my
sewing table where I can easily trace
my patterns or, in this case, the tree
for my wall hanging. Once my tree
was traced it was simply a matter of
adding the background and swing to
create my master pattern.
The instructions are a guide for using
these techniques to achieve your
own unique wall hanging and no
pattern pieces are included with these
instructions. – Betty
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Family
Hanging
TreeWall
I believe that a
tree is a symbol
of generations of
a family. A tree
sprouts from the
ground, grows,
branches out and
then creates new
growth and leaves,
just like a family.
You may have a
large family with
many leaves or a
small family with
just a few leaves.
Celebrate your
family by creating
a family tree wall
hanging.
– Lynn
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There is nothing
more beautiful
than the stark
contrast of the Red
Cardinal against a
bright winter sky.
The inspiration
behind this piece
are the pair of
cardinals that nest
in our trees every
year. The male
cardinal would sing
from the treetop
with a loud clear
and very distinctive
whistle to mark his
territory. The Moda
Gradients Holiday
fabric was the
perfect backdrop
for this piece and
proved to be a
fabulous guide for
the free-motion
quilting done to
enhance the trees.
– Clodagh
Cardinal
Woods
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A Tree for
Every Season
I can talk hours and hours about my love of nature. I always try to share this love through my work
with fabrics and threads. Musing over this issue’s theme, I remembered Stanley Horowitz's saying,
"Winter is an etching,
spring a watercolor,
summer an oil painting and
autumn a mosaic of them all".
I clearly saw four different tree blocks in my head: a pine tree bent by the winter wind, a tree in spring with
its first juicy blooming leaves, another in the summer with its lush green leaves, and one in the autumn
with its mosaic of brilliant orange and red colours. – Olesya
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Photos by Olesya Lebedenko

T he Pixelated Tree Quilt
In 2016 I had the pleasure of attending a quilting retreat about
improvising and composition hosted by one of my mentors,
Ricky Tims. Ricky smiled when he saw me there being that our
styles and process for making quilts are totally opposite of each
other. When I start a quilting project, I have a rather good idea of
what the quilt will look like even before the fabric is purchased.
Ricky on the other hand has the ability to start a project with
no vision of the completed quilt. He lets the project guide
him throughout the entire process of creating his quilt. Ricky
knowing my style knew my attending the retreat was going to
make me explore a side of my creativity I had never tapped into
before. It was a good week.
When I was asked to contribute to this issue of A Needle Pulling
Thread, I quickly realized I would need to go back to what I
learned at the 2016 retreat and let the process guide me to the
end. I will admit that when I started thinking about this quilt, I
had an image in my mind. The image was blurry, but I knew it
would get clearer with time.
With an image in mind, I needed to select fabrics. This was
probably the easiest part of making this quilt since I was going
to use scraps.
Every time I complete a project, I immediately cut up all my
scraps to usable sizes. I cut these pieces as small as 1½” x 1½”
squares or up to 8” x 8” squares as well as 2” or 2½” strips. Then I
add them all to the appropriately labelled bin. Photo 1
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Under
the
Canopy
Quilt
Can you see the forest
for the trees? Initially,
I was going to make a
replica of a tree in some
fantastic technique.
After paying close
attention to the trees
on my daily walks, I
saw some beautiful
patterns on the tree
trunks. More walking
and daydreaming, and
the concept of using the
bark pattern as the quilt
design emerged. The
colours represent fall
colours. The seams are
wonky, as are branches
in real life. Now
wouldn’t you want to
make a quilt fort using
this quilt?
– Elaine
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Pinecone
Scarf &
Headband
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Orchard
Blossoms
Shawl
Photos by Alessia De Fusco
I live in apple country, so I take a drive in
the countryside every spring to see the
trees in blossom. Find the right spot and
you have blossoms in the foreground, with
the escarpment sloping down to the blue of
Georgian Bay in the background—beautiful!
This generously sized shawl features eyelet
motifs that resemble round, open blossoms
with six petals in the central section, tighter
buds in the smaller side panels, and a mesh
border that represents the spent petals that
fall to the ground after fertilization occurs
and fruit begins to form. – Nancy
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skill level Intermediate
finished measurements
One size: 70” wide at top edge x 28” deep at center
back [178 x 71cm]
materials
yarn
• Fibra Natura Donnina, 100% superwash extra fine
merino, 1.75oz [50g] / 180yds [165m] ball
• 5 balls Pink Whisper colourway
needles
• US 6 [4mm] circular knitting needle, at least 32”
[80cm] long, or size required to obtain gauge
other
• 4 stitch markers (additional stitch markers can be
used to identify pattern repeats)
• yarn needle for weaving in ends
• rust-proof pins for blocking

Sock 1 APPLE PIE
Sock 2 YUM! YUM!
Although I knit
these socks from
the top down, they
are best described
as a tree from the
ground up.
Toe The black yarn
is the rich soil for
the roots.
Foot Two shades
of brown look like
the bark of the
trunk with the
words on the sole
scratched in.
Heel and Turn The
pin is for fragrant
blossoms and
yellow for bees.
Leg The red and
white apples
remind me of a
gingham apron.
Cuff I used a blue/
green mix to top
off the tree with
loops for leaves
under the sky.
– Lorraine
Gingham Apples
Socks
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CROCHET BOHEMIAN CARDI
When I think back to my
first memories of Boho
crochet, I see the hemp
bags, and cotton bralettes
that the flower children
would wear in the ‘70s.
Music festivals in farmers’
fields, and a new awareness
of the environment fed
that style. I was too young
to attend those cultural
events then. 40 years later,
I thought it’s time to revisit
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T he Folktale of Baba Yaga
What better story to highlight for
the trees theme than the folktale of
Baba Yaga? It’s a Belarusan folktale,
set deep in the massive forest, that
has been used to spook children over
dozens of centuries in an attempt to
get them to behave!
Among the snaggy trees lives the
ferocious witch Baba Yaga in ‘The-
Cabin-On-Chicken-Legs’, and this
cabin is said to possesses magic
powers. The incantation goes, “Cabin,
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Cabin, turn your back to the forest
and your front to me", and the cabin
will spin around creaking with bloodcurdling
screeches and eventually come
to a stop to face the visitor, where it will
lower itself down on its chicken legs
and throw its door wide open!
Children are warned not to go alone
deep into the forest for Baba Yaga will
grab them there!
The story continues that Baba Yaga
flies in a mortar and uses the pestle
as a rudder sweeping the tracks
behind her using her magic broom.
She collects skulls for her the posts of
her palisade that surrounds her cabin.
She’s also a shapeshifter who appears
so scary and then at times can be
a wise woman that helps the most
brave, hard-bitten heroes!
Anyway, that's how the spooky story
goes; I guess it all depends on how
much you want to scare the children...
– Iryna
Photo by Iryna Varabei

Painting My Forest
wi th Wool
Every time I sit in my studio, I look
out the window and see something
new to paint, only now I don’t
paint with oil or acrylics, I paint
with wool. The forest surrounds our
little home, it shelters us from the
cold north winds. It gives us shade
on the hottest days. It makes us
feel alive in spring with the sounds
and scents of new life all around us.
It lulls us with beauty and peace in
autumn’s glorious colours. Every
tree is unique, they bend and twist
and are full of unusual shapes and
textures that can be made with bits
of wool to recreate a vision of what
I see outside.
A lot of my artistic inspiration
comes from the art of The Group
of Seven, and many other fine
Canadian artists who focus on
forest landscapes. I have painted
many trees, but my favourite is the
pine tree.
I wanted to do a project here that
simplified the beauty of a tree. I
used only green and brown for
the tree, a simple layering of blue
and white in the background to
represent a windy sky, and a grey
base for the rocks to hold my tree
down to the earth. You can use
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important part of any project is
to have fun and enjoy the creative
process, and happy stabbing!
– Kathy
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