I finally got around to making another journal quilt! My life has been pretty much in constant upheaval since June. I probably could have finished this in September, but it seemed to fit October better anyway, so I took my time.
The title is "Delicious Autumn", which is the title of the poem by George Eliot that I printed on the back. I used a technique I found in a recent quilting magazine. I can't put my hands on the magazine at the moment, but the technique is cut-out applique. Then I saw an episode of Simply Quilts where they were doing free-motion zig-zag, so I used that to satin stitch around the leaves. I found that free-motion satin stitching takes a steady hand and a steady eye, but it does make it easier to go around curves. I free-motion quilted the background with metallic gold trhead, but it doesn't show up in the picture. The veins in the leaves are also metallic gold.
Here are the pictures!
Saturday, October 28, 2006
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