A fully fused top!

I've completed fusing the top for Tree #7.

I'm happy with how it looks so far. One of my favorite things about this technique is it's so easy to make changes.  Below, you can see an earlier version.  This previous attempt looks unbalanced, I think, because the left right corner is so much darker than the left top corner. It was so easy to pull off some snippets from both sides, shuffle them around and add some more, and fuse it again.

Next I need to piece together a backing and do the basting.  But first, I have to face the mountain of snippets on the studio floor. That's one drawback to this method- the snippets are threatening to take over my apartment!