Labyrinths of Wonder Journal Quilt

Time to show another Fantasy Journal Quilt and this time is one from the other pair I submitted rather than the winning pair. As I mentioned in a previous post I put the pairs together quite randomly depending on their colour schemes.

This one was inspired by the page seen above made in my Vintage Gluebook and in this case I used the original vintage image, from a children's magazine published around 1905. This made it necessary to scan it in from my gluebook itself and because I wanted it on a very much larger scale for the Journal Quilt I scanned at 1200 DPI. This seemed to work well as the larger image on the JQ doesn't seem to have lost any definition. A mix of commercial fabrics and ones I had printed onto cotton fabric myself form the background of the JQ. The musical fabric was a black/white commercial fabric I antiqued with tea. The stamp is an actual postage stamp and the text comes from the same book as mentioned in the previous blog post. And yes, I lived up to my reputation as the queen of embellishment!

Here is a view of my non-winning pair as they were hanging at the recent Ingliston Quilt Fair, and I'll come back to the other JQ in the near future.