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2002 Journal QuiltPages
January - September 2002, Copyright © 2002, Maria Elkins, All Rights Reserved.
The Journal QuiltPages project was proposed by Karey Bresenhan, Director of the International Quilt Festival. It was to be "a free-form exercise in creativity, specifically planned to encourage quilt artists to stretch and grow." The project was open only to members of the QuiltArt list and the QuiltPages were displayed at the 2002 IQF show. More than 150 members displayed their work.
I wanted to experiment with many different techniques so I chose to make my QuiltPages following these guidelines:
- Each quilt is 8-1/2" wide by 11" high.
- Each quilt has 100% silk fabric on the left and 100% cotton fabric on the right.
- Each quilt uses a different surface design technique.
- Each quilt uses a different thread.
- Each quilt uses a different embellishment.
- Each quilt uses two different battings: one on the top half of the quilt and a second batting on the bottom half.
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QuiltPage 1 (Not displayed in Houston)
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QuiltPage 2 (January)
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QuiltPage 3 (Not displayed in Houston)
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QuiltPage 4 (February)
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QuiltPage 5 (March)
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QuiltPage 6 (April)
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QuiltPage 7 (May)
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QuiltPage 8 (June)
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QuiltPage 9 (Not displayed in Houston)
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QuiltPage 10 (July)
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QuiltPage 11 (August)
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QuiltPage 12 (September)
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QuiltPage 13 (Begun after QuiltPage 7 - not finished or displayed.)
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QuiltPage 14 (Begun after QuiltPage 2 - not finished or displayed.)
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These experiments are actually the fulfillment of an idea that I had over twenty years ago, but at the time I was too afraid of failure to try. Now I'm older (and maybe a little wiser) and I've come to realize that it's okay to fail because it teaches me what works and what doesn't. Ultimately, it's not the final product that is important, it's the learning process that matters.
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- Journal Quilts for January, February, March, April, and June are published in Creative Quilting, pages 14- 15.
- Journal Quilts for May, July, August, and September are published in Quilting Arts Magazine, Issue 23 (Fall 2006), page 72-76.
- Entire collection is in the corporate collection of Quilts, Inc., parent company of International Quilt Festival and International Quilt Market, Houston, Texas
- Part of the 2002 Journal Quilt traveling exhibit, Quilts, Inc.
- Voted Best Reflection of a Single Theme in the "A Page from My Book: Journal Quilts 2002" Exhibit at the 2002 International Quilt Festival (http://www.quilts.org/), Houston, Texas, October 31 to November 3, 2002. Voting was just for fun. It was limited to QuiltArt members who had Journal Quilts hanging in the exhibit.
Comments on "Journal QuiltPages"?
You can enjoy Journal QuiltPages created by other quilters at the following websites:
- All 157 projects that were displayed in Houston (www.quiltart.com/journals.html)
- Sandra Betts (http://www.individuelle.homestead.com/)
- Linda Dawson (http://groups.msn.com/FantasticFibers/journalquilts.msnw)
- Melissa Devin (http://www.thedevins.com/~mldevin/journalquilt.html)
- Sandra T. Donabed (http://www.geocities.com/~sdonabed/index.html)
- Eileen Doughty (http://www.doughtydesigns.com/journal.html)
- Ann Fahl (http://my.execpc.com/~fahl/journal.htm)
- Mary Beth Goodman (http://mbgoodman.tripod.com/journal)
- Terry Grant (http://www.geocities.com/terrygrant2/journal1.html)
- Gloria Hansen (http://www.gloriahansen.com/journalquilts.html)
- Lily Kerns (http://members.tripod.com/~LilyK/i-trunk.html)
- Ellen Linder (http://www.adventurequilts.com/Journal%20Quilt%20Gallery.htm)
- Mary Ann Littlejohn (http://www.geocities.com/malittlej/JournalQuilts2002.html)
- Linda Mason (http://www.dyeingartstudio.com/journal_quilts.html)
- Mary McRae (http://www.fiberartisan.net/quiltpages.htm)
- Amanda Perkins (http://www.amandasartquilts.homestead.com/journal.html)
- Deb Richardson (http://www.geocities.com/tansy2_62/journal.html)
- Lesley Riley (http://www.LaLasLand.com/jquilts.htm)
- Rose Rushbrooke (http://www.roserushbrooke.com/journal.html)
- Mary Louise Smith (http://community-2.webtv.net/MARYLOUISESMITH/QUILTJOURNALPAGES/)
- Julie Zaccone Stiller (http://www.JZS.homestead.com/journalpgs.html)
- Velis Turan (http://www.mhcable.com/~beaverln/journals.html)
Copyright 2008, Maria Elkins
Please do not copy text, graphics or quilt designs without permission.
Last updated August 10, 2006.