 Firstly tonight I would like to thank everyone who has commented that they like seeing my Visual Journal Pages and Apologies to my Visual Journal teacher (Canberra TAFE 1997/8) with whom I argued that I couldn’t PLAN crazy quilts, they just happened as I stitched, I was wrong, I didn’t understand Visual Journals…In 2002 Sharon explained Visual Journals to me when she said “Your the back of an envelope girl” (I still use the backs of envelopes which I later glue into the visual journal)…I still can’t plan out a whole crazy quilt, and wouldn’t want to, but I can use a Visual Journal to plan/think/test ideas and now with blogging and the feedback that people like seeing the pages, I find that I am using it more often and more effectively, so thank you everyone.
The image to the right is the first sketch/idea for tonights seam treatment…When I decided that I would use charms I expanded and expanded the idea in a new sketch…
 Below is my embroidered interpretation, it is freeform, has a disjointed perspective and is not to scale, it non the less does in an impressionistic way depict about 1 kilometre of the coastline… the only lighthouse charm I had was the wrong design because Ballina light house is atop a grassy hill with a seperate light house keepers house, I solved that by using tin snips to cut the house and rocks from the bottom of the charm…The 2 white crosses in the cemetry are in memory of my father and the brother in the image on this block, we miss them greatly but I do find comfort knowing that they rest in peace only a couple of plots apart in the outer row on the seaward side of the cemetry with a million dollar view looking out over the beach to the Pacific Ocean.
This seam finishs the 14th block for mum’s memory quilt.
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