My favorite season!

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!