Journal Quilt #18

Here is my weekly challenge! This one was simple and fun to do. Each one measures 6" x 6" and I try to make one a week; my goal is to do this for the entire year and put them all together at the end of the year. On the back of the quiltie is a journal entry about the piece:

May 14th, 2007 * Journal Quilt Number 18 *

Simple things like feeling sunshine on your face again mean a lot after a long cold winter in New England. When I was thinking about what my theme for this week’s journal quilt would be, I kept coming back to the feeling of the sunshine warming me, like it did when we were out canoeing this weekend. So I reached for some warm yellow-gold fabric I had, and some bright shiny gold fabric, and added a dash of yellow & red dyed fabric to create this sunny warm journal quilt with.

I cut the dyed fabric in a half-circle, put the shiny gold fabric underneath so it stuck out a bit, and sewed it down to the bottom of the page with lines so this piece looked like the sun. Then I took a transparency image from the Alpha Stamps sheet Ophelia #1 and sewed it on top of the golden fabric. I added stamping to the transparency with StazOn inks – It’s the little things. I sewed gold star sequins to the journal quilt, attaching them with beads. Then I also glued two fabric images from the Alpha Stamps ‘Butterflies’ fabric sheet to the journal page, and I remembered to stamp the date!

That’s about it for this week’s mini quilt. These are small fabric works, but by now I already have quite a collection. They are fun to look through & show people and I enjoy talking about them and discussing how we will display them at the years' end. My son’s girlfriend Christine had a great idea for attaching them to another piece of fabric at the top so you could still flip them over & read the entry – I love it!