Journal Quilts

Work on the Journal Quilts has continued with February and March finally being finished at the caravan at the beginning of April.   Inspiration for the next one was slow in coming but thankfully it came in time to get it finished and uploaded on the CQ Yahoo group with one day to spare.

The February quilt was inspired by a watermill which was beside the river in this section.   I took a wheel design, made a foam stamp and used it to print some green fabric.   I then cut it in strips and reassembled it to use for the land either side of the river course.  This area of the quilt was machine quilted with a wheel shape.   Once again the river was bonded and machine quilted.

For the March quilt, I used the contour lines from the OS map and cut shapes in two different green fabrics which were bonded another green background, leaving the river valley clear for bonding the course of the river.   I machine zig-zagged the edges of the cut pieces and machine quilted the river.

Finally for April I created a background fabric by bonding some cut rectangles and squares of various green fabrics to some fusible wadding, added some torn sections of the map and then covered it with some dyed scrim.   This I then machine quilted around the map sections, taking the quilted lines to the edges of the quilt.   I then hand stitched a torn segment of the OS map showing the river to the quilt using small stab stitches and highlighted the river with blue stitches.