I’m enjoying stitching this fabric journal from Pretty Fabrics and Trims, so it does tend to be my favoured project whenever the monthly parcel arrives, three weeks ago I had started stitching the sweet chestnut page and had just started stitching French knots for the leaves on the tree…

I’ve got to admit, those French knots took a while, I like doing French knots but in the end I stitched other parts of the page in between the never ending French knots, but they do look really effective! The branch and the chestnut are mainly stitched with fishbone, satin and straight stitch.

Once the page was finished I joined it to the September page of blackberries, spray basted them onto wadding and lightly quilted them, the sweet chestnuts just have the square of cross-stitches round them as quilting, the blackberries have randomly spaced cross-stitches.

Once the pages were quilted I just had to bind them with the Liberty tana lawn provided.

I think this is the last of the pages, I’ve stitched five double page spreads altogether. The next parcel will be the front (or back) cover.

Here’s the five pages together…

This Hand Quilt Along is an opportunity for hand quilters and piecers to share and motivate one another. We post every three weeks, to show our progress and encourage one another.  If you have a hand quilting project and would like to join our group contact Kathy at the link below.

Kathy, Deb, Sharon, Margaret , and Daisy