August Journal Quilt

Had to do some last minute changes to the August Journal Quilt.   My original plan was to use the Art Nouveau designs from the Paris Metro stations but the photos I had prepared and taken on holiday with me proved to be not up to scratch so some last minute redesigning had to go on.

I used the Paper Cut Outs by Henri Matisse as the basis of my design and as we were away at the seaside, I used a seaweed outline as my Cut Out.  The shape was cut freehand from some commercial cotton and then the shape was applied to a hand dyed cotton fabric.   I hand stitched the shape to the background using a space dyed cotton perle and then machine quilted around the shape.