In March, in the UK we have Mother's Day and as my own Mother also had her birthday in March, I wanted to include her in this Journal Quilt.
I chose blue for the colouring as this was one of her favourite colours and the photo I used is from her much younger days but it is a lovely photo of her which is the main reason I used it.
I started by monoprinting the background (using my new toy - a Gelli Plate) and then printing with the same wooden block I used on the Gelli print. As I have planned to use text in all my quilts this year, I printed 'mother' in various languages and forms using foam letters and a variety of rubber stamps. I printed some paper at the same time and used these in stacks together with a printout of the 'mother' words which were stitched down with a button. After binding, I stitched beads around the edge, similarly to the other quilts I have done this year.
As a late addition, I also included a photo of my daughter Clare as she was born on Mother's Day in 1977.
In April this year the daffodils all seemed to come out at once so I decided to use that as my subject for the April JQ.
The background is a piece of my own dyed fabric on which I painted the stems and leaves of the daffodils using fabric paints before machine quilting them. The daffodils were made my layering painted Bondaweb on to yellow Lutradur and then free machining them in place. Some yellow bugle beads were then stitched on.
A photo of daffodils was machined close to the lower edge and then, continuing the use of text, I wrote the Worsworth poem "Daffodils" around the edge. Yet again, after binding, I stitched yellow beads around the edge.
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