Oct. Journal page finished

I decided to finish the edge with a satin stitch with a multicolor thread. I thought a binding would look too bulky. When I look at it now it looks like leaves floating down with trees in the background. If I had tried to achieve that effect I doubt that I would have been able to. I like it when things just fall together and seem right. I put a batik with some similar colors in it on the back. I hadn't thought about a label yet. Sometimes I just write with permanent marker on the backs, my name and the year. These journal pages are going to be visual, not wordy. I may start another series of them with words if I feel it is necessary.
For those of you who don't know the story about journal pages, here is how it got started. Jeanne Williamson decided to make one small quilt each week in 1999. They were all 8" x 10" and she continued doing this for seven years. In 2002 Karey B. organized the Journal Quilt Project in which each piece should be 8.5" x 11", the size of a piece of copy paper in the US. So Jeanne was the pioneer and then it became a world wide project for many people. Most people make a piece for each month and a lot of them have themes. Many of you have seen them on display at the big quilt shows such as Quilt Festival in Chicago in April each year.

Making small pieces gets you really in touch with each stitch. You may try new ideas that you don't want to jump into on a large piece. The piece is done in a shorter length of time so there is some instant gratification, something most of us need when we see our many unfinished projects stashed away. I think they need to be made impulsively, not as if it is a chore.