More Journal Quilts - things goes wrong!

Keeping to my beach theme, the Journal Quilts for September and October didn't go as I've planned.....

Starting with September, I had a C&G activity (strip piecing): What better than to "kill two birds with one stone" - so I did some strip piecing inspired by a photo I took this summer on a Norfolk beach:

Here is my first go - I have changed the colours of the grasses in order to tie-in the quilts in with the rest of this years quilts.* 

Quilt top.

Sandwiched and marked 12” x 12”

The finished quilt: “Grasses I” I’m not to proud of the horizon…...

With the October quilt I decided to strip piece the background only and fuse the grasses.

Here I have sandwiched the quilt only to find out that it would have been much easier to quilt the background first! HA.

So here we go - the grasses frayed a lot, but I found that I liked that.

Cut and ready to bind, not quite…… I had forgotten to get the horizon, well, what, horizontal! Can’t have the water run out of the ocean.

So I had to add a bit back, not very smart.

The finished quilt: “Grasses II” (Yes I know, not very inspired names).

Oh, one thing more - I also forgot to line up the quilts horizons, so now they can’t hang side by side, looks ridiculous. It’s OK over each other, though. So many things to consider. :O)

And the last picture is actually my first attempt. Not my finest moment. But all in all, I have learned a few things and two more journal quilts finished. Now, what to do for November and December?!? Watch this space……..

*Last year I’d based the journal quilts colours on the colour of the month, and when it came to exhibiting, we were asked to supply five quilts. I didn’t have five quilts in the same colour scheme [important to me] so I ended up making November in non-November colours! After all it was only my own rules…… You can see the 2007 JQ in the sidebar. For the exhibition I chose April, July, September, October & November.

You can still see all the Contemporary Quilt Journal Quilts 2007 at The Autumn Quilt Festival, Malvern 2008 Friday 31st October - Sunday 2nd November and at The Chilford Autumn Quilt Festival 2008 Chilford Hall Vineyard Friday 7th - Sunday 9th November

Fabrications magazine issue 56 (latest) feature almost 8 pages with a lot of those quilts.