I am taking part in the Sketchbook Challenge ( http://sketchbookchallenge.blogspot.com ) and Kit found the announcement of a Journal Quilt Challenge: http://3creativestudios.com/blog/2010/12/30/want-to-do-2011-journal-quilts/.
She came up with the idea of participating in both challenges by using the themes of the Sketchbook Challenge as themes for the Journal Quilts. I loved the idea and immediately decided - I wanna do that, too !! So we started talking about it and came up with something in the line of a public, private, low-pressure challenge on The ArtQuilt Blog. We would love to have discussions about our work - and doing so on TheArtQuiltBlog seems appropriate. We would post about our Journal Quilts on The ArtQuilt Blog and encourage questions and remarks. We're looking for some actual, critical feed back - and who could do that better than other Art Quilters?
Everyone who might like to join us is absolutely welcome! The more, the merier ;-))
We're going to be posting our quilts bi-weekly, in the size we like best. Kit is doing her Journal Quilts in 10 x 10 squares and I plan to do mine 6" square and bi-weekly. Whatever you would like to do - is perfect! I'm hoping to get 24 6" Journal Quilts done - but I will be ok when I'll have 20 at the end of the year (read: yes, I give myself permission to skip one or the other Journal Quilt ...). Every post related to our Journal Quilts should be tagged with "Journal Quilt" so we'll all know when critical feedback/questions about the work is desired.
OK, fellow Art Quilters - anyone want to join us doing Journal Quilts? Having fun doing so? And learning as we go? The join us!
