Quilt Show - part 2

The show had a great display of journal quilts. A journal quilt is a quilt that is about 8 1/2" x 11" (about the size of a piece of paper). It can be anything you want. You can capture your thoughts and feelings into your quilt. You can try new techniques. Try your hand at beading on a quilt. And it is great because it is not a huge commitment to a big project. Sonia Grasvik, an award winning quilter from the guild, organized a journal quilt category and even taught some workshops leading up to the show. (these quilts were not judged)



This is only about half of the journal quilts that were there. I love how she arranged the quilts on the long black pieces of felt. And here are just a few of the journal quilts that were on display. (click on the pictures to see the detail)


This is a whole cloth journal quilt. All hand quilted and as you can see she used trapunto.



Here is a cute and quirky self portrait of our featured artist Mary Allen.

These are so beautiful. I wish I had taken a picture closer up so you could see the detail.

I love the colors and the sun on this one...

This one is so cool...

I love Fall leaves and this journal quilt had such texture. She used felt and I believe needle punched the felt leaves.

I love this city scape.

Can you guess the movie this one represents?

Very artistic.

This one is very pretty.

There were so many journal quilts that I couldn't show you all of them but hopefully this inspires you to try making a journal quilt of your own.