You won’t find deer in the majority of Alaska, but in Southeast and Kodiak we do actually have black-tailed deer. The only place I’ve ever seen one was at the Alaska Conservation Center in Portage. To someone who’s used to moose in my yard, the deer seem so small and fragile.

Piece the Wild: Among the Aspens uses batiks from my 2021 Return to the Wild Signature Batik Collection with Hoffman California Fabrics. This pattern can be made as an individual pattern as shown above, or combined with the other three Piece the Wild patterns to make a larger combination quilt as shown below. See all my Return to the Wild batiks here.

The pattern includes a set of the laser cut applique deer used in the design backed with Lite Steam-a-Seam 2.