Journal Quilts 2009 - The Four Last Ones - And Journal Quilts 2010

These are the last four Journal Quilts for 2009:

September, October, November and December

And just to recap: May, June, July and August

January, February, March and April

They are all 6" X 12" ( 15cm X 30 cm)

I chose to make my 2009 theme was ‘Exploring Collage’ and I decided to make all the backgrounds in one go, as a kind of hole cloth, with heavy machine quilting, then cut it into 12pieces, aprox. 13” x 7” = my blank “canvases” for the whole year. I made them in series of four.

Materials for the “canvas”: Various textured off-white silks, wadding, commercial cotton (backing) and silk thread.

Technique for the “canvas”: Fused and free-motion machine quilted.

Materials and technique for the collage: ColourCatchers® and cotton threads. Fused and free- motion machine quilting. In the last four I have also used mulberry bark.

The 2010 challenge:

The size for 2010 is 7" X 10" (18cm X 25cm)

I'm going to try a new tecnique each month and here is my chosen colour scheme:

Black, white and a hint of red (in my case red/orange)

I am proud to say that I have made an entry in my sketchbook (two facing pages) every day since January 1st, have made a begining on the Journal Quilts 2010 and restarted my C&Gs course.

More postings on all three to follow.....