Instead of new work, I'll post photos of a couple of Journal Quilts I made several years ago. While Karey Bresenhan wasn't the creator of Journal Quilts (little works made the same size as a sheet of notebook paper) she was the force behind them becoming so popular. For several years members of the QuiltArt email list were invited to submit a series of Journal Quilts for display at the International Quilt Festival held in Houston every fall. I made several journals one year but never submitted them for exhibit at the show.
This first one utilized Sue Benner's fused quilt technique.
This second one was the first of what I'd planned as a series of bridge quilts - depicting bridges in places where I'd lived. In case it's not obvious, this is the Golden Gate.
I actually did make a couple more bridge quilts, including "Amazing Grace" a rendition of the now dismantled Cooper River Bridges here in Charleston, SC. A photo of that quilt is in my blog header.
I never did make the quilt of the Ambassador Bridge over the Detroit River, or any of the bridges in New York (I lived closest to the Throgs Neck Bridge and would Have probably done that one.) Maybe those are for future works.
2 comments:
Good for you to finish the Journal quilts even if you didn't submit them. I usually stop sewing and throw them in the "Never to be finished box" - no sense saying "unfinished" because I know I will never get back to them. Do you have a quilt in the 2008 Journal project? I didn't even try.
VERY COOL CORKY
I love them both. see ya at arts meeting in the morning. Jeanne
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