May Journal Page

Finally got down to some serious sewing and finished my May Journal Page for the Contemporary Quilters, its called May Flowers.  Not very original I know but I've decided that the Yellow block of work will be all flowers.



The centre is transfer dyed silk and the prairy points the same transfer dyes but on cotton sateen.  I only had a small bit of both so the silk had to become a panel.  The flowers are handmade felt which I made some time ago and forgot about with velvet centres.  Machine stitching created the flower shapes and I cut carefully round them.  I wanted to use my new Bernina foot number 39C which is the updated version of the clear embroidery foot.  The new version has a central hole in the plate so you can run a thread through and couch it down.  It works really well.  The thread I used is a Maderia Decora, a rather thick thread which I've only used in the bobbin before.

As well as May Flowers I've completed a set of postcards for the BQLPC group with the theme of "single colour - wholecloth, tints and tones".

I quilted the tops then coloured them using Derwent Inktense blocks, this time I actually made one to keep.  I'll post the other swappers' postcards tomorrow when I've finished scanning them into my PC.