Squirrel Scraps

With the beautiful weekend weather, a trip to the zoo on Monday and into NYC yesterday (the show "Wicked" was amazing!), I forgot to post last week's journal quilt. I used a scrap of Mary Fisher altered fabric that didn't have much going on as the base of the piece. I colored it with paintsticks to liven it up, then stamped it using chestnut halves I found around the yard, left behind by the squirrels this winter. I doodled a squirrel with a black cray-pas pastel crayon on top of it all. I attached the doodle to a background fabric with a free-motion zigzag stitch, deliberately keeping it uneven and doodle-like. I'm calling this Squirrel Scraps.