Practice

I decided to use scraps from my Ten Blessings-Twofold quilt as the base for my latest journal quilt. I really love the way the colors all blend and I like how all the little pieces came together.

What to do next? Well, I remembered a time when I'd been chided by a friend. "It's just fabric", she'd said in response to my comment about how nervous I got when experimenting with paint and other such items. She's right, of course, and I suppose there's no better place to practice and build confidence than journal quilts. So here's the end result of practicing with embroidery, paintsticks and beadwork to create some texture. I think it looks a bit like a modern-age crazy quilt considering that most of my stitching ended up on the seams. What do you think?