A Whale of a Time

Boy did I have a great time making this "round" mug rug. I love batiks and of course I collect them among other fabrics. I have this splotchy brownish cream fabric that's been sitting around in my stash just patiently waiting to shine. Since the whale design is roundish I decided to attempt a circular rug. Well for my first try it's pretty good but I forgot about bias binding difficulties and I had to do some major clipping, tucking, finger pricking and pressing. It lays fairly flat so I vowed that the next round mug rug would be lots better.
What do you think?? I know my one mistake was the bias but what else did I need to do?? Trash it, maybe!!
Stay tuned in to watch and read about my venture into "roundness!"

When Nature Calls - Block #7 & Banner

This is the last outhouse (#7) of the quilt. This was such a great block but now I need your feedback. The rest of the quilt consists of various trees of which I have designs. Is anyone interested in me posting PDFs for the trees? If so, please leave your comment stating that or even if you aren't interested, I'd love to hear about what you thought about this BOM.

A different view.

Here's a reminder of what my original quilt looks like.

I used a fabric that had bark-like images on it, cut what I wanted from the pieced and fused  most of that to my background fabric. I arranged my lettering on top of that, lifted some of the bark up to place parts of the letters underneath and pressed everything. I'm also including the "wording" in PDF for you all.
Again, this BOM was so much fun that I made another set of blocks as I developed the pattern. If you are interested in tree patterns, let me know in your comments. I read everyone and will happily develop the trees for you.