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Creative Quilting
The Journal Quilt Project

Author: Karey Patterson Bresenhan, ED.
Pages: 272
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11 1/2"
Publisher: Quilting Arts
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4L0200
Weight: 3.4lb

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MSRP: $34.99

Back Cover Information

"Journal Quilts are quilts that tell stories and quilts that break boundaries. They are small, elegant windows into their makers' hearts and lives. At the same time, they are exciting doors flung open wide to a world of growth and experimentation. They personify the quilt artist's search for creativity and self-expression." Karey Patterson Bresenhan, Editor

So begins the introduction to Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project, a compendium of more than 400 quilts, each at a size of 8 1/2" x 11", culled from the nearly 6,000 Quilt Pages made by 918 artists who have participated in The Journal Quilt Project over five years. The Project—A Page From My Book, displayed each year at International Quilt Festival in Houston and Chicago—was started in 2002 by Festival Director Karey Patterson Bresenhan, organizer and curator of the annual exhibit.

Each quilt shown here represents a page in a quilter's life story, chronicling joy, frustration, tragedy, inspiration, mundane moments, artistic epiphany—and every event and emotion in between.

In Creative Quilting: The Journal Book Project, you'll find:

• Glossy, color photographs of more than 400 creative journal quilts, created by nearly 250 quilters from around the world.
• Inspiration and ideas for choosing themes and subjects for your quilts.
• Descriptions of each quilt, including techniques and materials.
• Stories from the artist, filled with hope and laughter, poignancy and pain, trepidation and exultation.
• Organized chapters: Series; Stories; Flowers, Plants & Trees; Animals & Insects; Landscapes & Special Places; Faces & Figures; and Abstracts; as well as an Artist Index and Bibliography.

Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project is not only a beautiful book to look at and read, but a valuable resource for artists seeking innovation and inspiration in their art and their lives.

Quilt Example

About the Editor

Karey Patterson Bresenhan is the president of Quilts, Inc. and director of the International Quilt Markets and International Quilt Festivals. Karey's business acumen, enthusiasm for quilting and perseverance helped her create and foster the quilting industry, now worth $2.27 billion a year in the U.S. and involving 21.3 million American quilters.

An acknowledged expert on quilt dating, Karey was named to the Quilters' Hall of Fame and is the author or co-author of five quilt reference books and guest curator of museum exhibitions.

Karey and her cousin Nancy O'Bryant Puentes, along with their mothers, CO-founded the prestigious International Quilt Association. Karey and Nancy continued their partnership to form The Alliance for American Quilts as well as CO-direct Patchwork and Quilt Expo in Europe—the major international quilt show held in Europe since 1988.

Quilt Examples

Journaling

How to develop ideas and sketchbooks for Projects & Quilts

Journaling

Today's Quilter, their Journey, Stories & Developement

Some bks include Blocks & Quilts

Journaling
&
Humourous Musing on the Quilting Process

no patterns

Every Quilt Tells a Story
by Helen Kelly

Art Quilts

Collector Editions

Single &/or Multiple Artist in Same Book

Leslie Gabriëlse
A Portrait
by Peter Bulthuis &
Leslie Gabriëlse