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Journal quilts–April, May and June

I’m now home from Festival in Houston, which was WONDERFUL. I filled a 1 Gig memory card, but alas have only about that much space left on my hard drive so this is going to be interesting… I’ll post about it as soon as I can get the computer to work (hah!). And I need sleep….went out today only to go to the post office, and forgot the thing I needed to mail at home. Yep, sleep. In the meantime…..

April: After looking at the January non-achromatic quilt for three months, I decided I needed to do it right. So, I made a second attempt at doing achromatic, or black-white-gray. This time, I got it. I took a close up photo of the rushing water at Camden Falls, where the Megunticook River spills into Camden Harbor. The river is actually fairly small, a large stream in some ways, and the falls aren’t that huge, either, but they sure are beautiful. I used every single black or gray fabric I had (which is obviously not a lot). Even at that, I ended up using a deep navy/forest batik and some others that stretch the achromatic scheme.

May: When I was visiting my mom in California, I took more photos of birds of paradise and other flowers in the grounds near where she lives. She had never seen a digital camera, or a photo processing program. I had Paul’s laptop with me, so I showed her how I could take a walk, come in, upload photos, adn then tweak them in Photoshop. I liked this particular tweak so much, it became the May journal. This is basically a primary triadic combination: red (fucshia), yellow and blue (turquoise).

May:

June: I have been mulling over some ideas about patterns and designs, so decided to do a contemporary twist on the traditional Moon Over the Mountain block. The combination here is complementary: purple and yellow. Or, if you’d prefer, split complementary: pale yellow and deep dark purple and its neighbors on the color wheel, including deep navy.

June:

One Response to “Journal quilts–April, May and June”

  1. Cay Denise Says:

    You know, when I first looked to this, it looked like an upside-down tulip between two mountains. I had to shift my vision to see the image as you described it in the text. Your ‘moon’ has a very nice glow against the fabrics, at least they way they look in this photo.