2015 Journal Quilts

I'm more than a bit cross with myself that I've reached April and not begun my Journal Quilts for 2015! I'm blaming it on the weather - it still feels like January here.
A while ago I decided to use some fabric that I'd coloured whilst on the CQ Retreat in February but was struggling to get started.
Today whilst my room was still tidy from a short spell as guest bedroom I pulled out the fabrics and began to cut. I'd thought that I'd put together a couple of backgrounds to help catch up but became so interested in using sections with interesting marks that I didn't stop until I'd done all twelve backgrounds.

What made this more interesting, but more challenging is that the NW CQ group are working to a landscape theme and I know that several members are using this theme for their JQ's too.  I'm not interested in pictorial but the colours I was working with are representational and some of the marks were too good to resist. So now I have twelve backgrounds which nod sufficiently towards the landscape for me to feel quite pleased with myself.
It's my intention to catch up as soon as I can with the first four then I'll pull one background out each month to work on with a mixture of hand and machine stitching, depending on what the fabric says!