progress with gingko leaves

The last couple of days I have been working on the gingko leaves. The quilt is in different lengths so it is more complicated to make a good looking edge finishing. I did not want to do a binding, so I made a kind of facing. After that I worked on the free motion quilting. Here are 2 detail pictures:

In the small strips in between the leaves I quilted the text: "Before you know it autumn is here and leaes are falling everywhere. Are they telling secrets to each other while the wind blows them around?". The leaves - which still have the original color of the fabric - are quilted like veins.

Another oldie

My stash of hand dyed fabrics is not exactly small , some of them stay there for a short time, but other wait longer. This piece of fabric has been in my stash since 2009. Yes rather a long time. The size is around 40"x40" and I wanted to do something with this fabric without cutting it up.

In July I knew what I wanted to do with it. I had bought some bottles of Decolourant Mist and intended to use these on this fabric. I cut out several shapes of gingko leaves out of freezer paper and played with positioning them on the fabric. While doing that I discovered that the whole would be a bit static. Time for the roller cutter :-). I cut the fabric into 3 strips and repositioned the templates. Still not quite to my liking. So a bit more cutting: 2 thin ones this time. The templates were ironed on the 9"x wide strips, the 2 thin ones remained like they were. I sprayed the templates with the Decolourant, let it dry and ironed them. This is how everything looked after that. On purpose the strips are of different length.