HERE ARE MY JULY 2008 QUILTS

I DID IT !
I made four journal-sized (9 X 12) quilts each month for a year!
I have 48 completed quilts. I have learned and experimented.
Best of all, I have had hours and hours of FUN.

Here are my final four:This quilt (above) was made from bleach discharged fabric. I discharged the black dye from the black fabric, leaving a lovely orange color. The black fabric had an overall pattern of small white flowers. I used Soft Scrub bleach gel as my 'discharge paste and freezer paper stencils cut into heart shapes---using the shapes both as a mask and as stencils, ironed onto the fabric. The discharged pieces are raw edge appliqued on the gold commercial print fabric. The quilt is embellished with gold jaquard paint and has three gold hearts sewn on.

This is a digitally manipulated image of our late great kitty, Guinevere, in the iris bed. It was printed on fabric and after layering, I used some free motion quilting and thread painting to enhance the image.

For "Birds of a Feather" (above), I drew a digital image of a bird and colored it. Then I made a second image with opposite colors by 'inverting' in Photoshop. I duplicated the two oppositely colored birds until I had four rows of four. Then I used Photoshop layers, a rainbow colored layer and blend modes to make them multicolored. I printed them on fabric, along with the "Birds of a Feather" title, and made a multicolored fabric feather that I sewed on. After layering the little quilt, I used some decorative machine stitching to decorate it.

I used an original digital image of a small sunflower that grew in our yard. After some digital manipulation, I printed the picture on fabric and added some stitching and free motion machine quilting. The colors and sunflower make me think of Van Gogh.

AND THAT'S MY 48TH JOURNAL QUILT !