Quilt News! Mini Quilts and Slow Stitching Added to Stitch Journal Pages, Spring Color Inspiration

Forsythia and ornamental Plum blossoms.

Lilies from the supermarket.

Forsythia in neighbor's yard, striking!

Page 1 and 2 in my stitch journal.. Page 1 features a little mini quilt I hand pieced.

And page 3 and 4....

Pages 5 and 6...more embellishment will be added to 6.

Back cover featuring a little mini quilt I pieced from small scraps.

This is the front cover with appliqué flowers, not finished yet....

 

Quilt News from the valley! Spring showers, blossoms and birds singing here.

I've been slow stitching and adding pages to my stitch journal, inspired by Sarah @ Roxy Creations.

And do visit Sarah and her friends, to see all their projects, which are many and varied! She works with paper, fabric, laces, buttons and threads, etc and makes journals, needle books, everything little thing you can imagine.

It very much reminds me of crazy quilting, the same concept really. The pages are small so it goes together faster than you'd think and the layers and slow stitching give a beautiful texture. I used lace from a vintage handkerchief I found in a thrift shop to border the back page and the lace hangs over for an informal scrappy look. More embellishment and stitching will soon be added.

On walks we have been enjoying the birds singing and the trees and shrubs blossoming. Spring is a thrill isn't it?

And that is the quilt news from the valley where it's time to visit the grandkids, so I must run!

I'm remembering to be thankful! 

I'll be by to visit.

Quilt News! Slow Stitch Journal Progress, Design/Color Play, Maple Valley Home, Crocus

More texture and stitches added to my Queen Anne's Lace project.

Hand embroidery stitches added to one of my stitch journal pages.

And more hand embroidery stitches added to finish a journal page.

Close up of Rice Stitch, Fly Stitch w' Twisted Ties and Italian Chain Knot Stitch.

I finally get to display some of my art quilts!

Color arranging experiments.

The first Crocus of the season, purple for beauty and peace.

 

Hello Quilt Friends, Quilt News! from Maple Valley, home, really?

and it's March with daylight savings starting tomorrow, that came fast...

I finished another Stitch Journal page and started another. I'm following Roxy's Creations Stitch Journal Challenge and I'm going at my own pace, slow stitching! Next after finishing this last page of stitch samples will be to design and finish my covers, front and back. There are a lot of ideas and a lot of encouragement on Roxy's Creations Stitch Journal Tutorials on YouTube.

Also I've had time to add more stitching and texture to my Queen Anne's Lace project. One of the new to me techniques I learned and put into practice from Rachel @ Roxy's Creations, is Invisible Tacking.

Jude Hill @ Cloth Whispering also uses and demonstrates that stitch. I love the subtle puckers that invisible tacking gives.

And Carin @ Queeniepatch has good stitch tutorials and always a new interesting stitch to consider.

Experiments with color and shape combinations have been entertaining me also. If Slow Stitching is a good thing, and I think it is, why not Slow Design? Kaja @ Slow Slowly practices 'slow' design and quilting and has beautiful results.

And that is the Quilt News from the valley!

Where I'm remembering to be thankful.

I'll be by to visit.