Better Late than Never

Before we left on our Easter trip, I rubbed over a palm leaf with different colored crayons.  Since that didn't end up looking particularly exciting, I colored over it all with Shiva Paintsticks using a leaf stencil.  Yesterday I finally had the chance to finish this up.  I took scraps from a wonderful hand-dyed I bought from Susan Schrott  and cut squares to be the backdrop to leaves I had in my stash. 

I was planning to lay the leaves neatly inside the squares so you could see the leaf veins, but my eldest daughter said that was boring.  Instead, she suggested that I let the leaves fall as they may since that was more in keeping with the random nature of the leaves in the background.  It seemed like a good idea, so that's just what I did.  It certainly is unexpected and more dynamic.  Now that I think it's complete, here's a picture of the journal quilt for last week:Random Foliage. What do you think of the off-kilter leaves?