The Altered Orphan

Last year I began to do the block of the month (BOM) program over at 3 Creative Studios (3CS).  By the time I got to the 3rd month I got to thinking...do I really need another quilt top???  The various unfinished tops hanging, hovering, and hiding in this and that closet were silently shouting...hey...I was here first!  So I stopped in my tracks and quit that BOM.  Two little blocks became orphans; blocks without a quilt!

Zoom forward to January 2011...another great idea erupted over at 3CS...oooooh...a journal quilt program.  This was much more do-able.  When I got to thinking about what to do for the 5th journal quilt the words alter and orphan came to mind.  So the block above morphed into the journal quilt pictured below and then into a journal cover in the second photo below.

The diagonal lines and pink square are emphasized by couching size 3 black perle cotton. I also grabbed a stencil and dabbed on a flower in black fabric paint to play on the other black elements.  I used Sulkey's gold holoshimmer metallic thread to quilt around the floral and that added just the needed bling.  This thread really ties everything together very subtly...on the spool you can spot every single color in this little quilt!