Here is my latest in my weekly challenge to myself. I am striving for 1 small 6" x 6" Journal quilt per week. I started January 7th and this is my 15th one. I almost did not create one this week . . .
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So, I went into my studio to see what I could come up with on the spur of the moment. I had worked a lot on a mixed media collage last week, and so I thought I’d use some elements of that piece on the journal quilt . . .
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The collage is finished!
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Here are a few more pages from my travel to Portugal Journal..
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I wanted to do something different this time so I started with a piece of canvas paper as the base of this week’s journal quilt. The Fredrix brand that comes in a pad is a real piece of artist’s canvas . . .
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This week I wanted to do a more free-form journal quilt using some of the beautiful fabrics that were still out on my table from my recent fabric art making . . .
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The hands are a scan of our hands we did a while ago for possible artwork. I took the scan, printed it mirror image on a transparency and then used gel medium to transfer it to fabric. I stamped various images with VersaCraft ink onto the fabric & the transparency . . . .
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My Journal quilt is done on a piece of cast-off jeans that used to be Steven’s. I printed the larger photo of the tree stump & snow around it directly onto a piece of muslin. The image of Asia and the image of Steven walking are gel medium image transfers . . .
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The theme of this week’s journal quilt is ART! Last week Steven and I went to the West Hartford Art League to see our 2 pieces that made it into their Juried show . . .
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Only 79 artworks made it into this show. Steve & I are very happy and feeling lucky that both of these pieces make it in!
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Last week I celebrated my 50th Birthday, and this week’s journal quilt definitely reflects that . . . . I had fun printing photos out onto fabric for this journal quilt!
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Here we are at #7 in my series of small journal quilts I am creating on a weekly basis. This one is very simple, although I did print a photo of a painting I did onto Lutradur . . .
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Great news to share. My collage art was accepted into Juried Art Show as well as a collaboration by my husband Steven and I!
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This was really fun to create!! Yes, the sticks are real! My journal entry was printed directly on the fabric, then used it as the back of the piece . . .
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Here is the fifth in my series of *mini* journal quilts – part of a year long fabric journal project I’m doing. When thinking about this week’s quiltie I could not help but think of the recent SNOW and cold weather we’ve had lately . . .
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My fourth mini Journal Quilt - click on the photo for a larger picture. It is hard to believe I have created 4 of these already! It is not hard to do, and the weekly deadline I made for myself is what keeps me creating them . . .
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This is the third in a series of *mini* journal quilts that I have completed towards my year long fabric art journal project (click on the photo for more detail). I began this 6” x 6” piece by simply thinking about what happened this past week.
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Here is another mini journal quilt from my year long project to share with you ~ and believe me, if I did not have this self-imposed deadline of Monday night, I would not be producing these fabric pages!
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This is the very first in a series of 6 x 6 Journal Quilts that I will create on a weekly basis (roughly) during 2007. I will use this blog to share them so check back! I’ve always wanted to create a larger fabric piece . . .
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