Mysteries of the Woods Journal Quilt

Some days ago I showed you the fabrics I painted in anticipation of making this journal quilt (see the post here) for the latest theme on the Sketchbook Challenge site, which is In the Woods. My wood is definitely a summer one where the trees are in full leaf. As I suspected when painting the fabrics the one with the ash leaf became the focal point in my little (10" square) quilt as you can see above. Apart from my painted leaf fabrics I added some pink in the form of a commercial fabric, just because I had added pink painted dots to some of my painted fabrics. I made a piecing plan for this piece and then it was a simple matter of piecing it all together.

I outline hand quilted around the various leaf shapes and also added more hand quilting where it seemed appropriate. The dragonfly seemed to belong in my wood. She came from Vintaj, and I added some alcohol inks to her in blue shades as I have seen so many blue dragonflies recently on the Blipfoto site.

Of course the next step was to add some more embellishments in the shape of beads as you can see in detail above. I'm quite pleased with how this journal quilt turned out although once again I came nowhere near using a sketchbook for the challenge. I just designed it in my head before and during the painting of the fabrics. Oh well!