Calling all quilters who like a challenge……….

We would like to challenge you to make journal quilts for the next year.

What’s a journal quilt? A journal quilt is a small quilt that you make to document an event in your life, an emotion that you are feeling, a time of year, something you would like to remember, a new technique or maybe a series exploring something of your choice.

The goal is to make a journal quilt for each month and to write a small paragraph explaining the quilt, your feelings and/or the technique used. The paragraph can be brief, just as an entry in a journal might be. The field is wide open and the choice is yours for each of your quilts.

Our goal in doing the journal quilts is to challenge our creativity and to have a display of our talents at the SSQA Symposium in September 2007.

If you are interested in making the journal quilts, we ask that you commit to having a minimum of 5 quilts to display.

Here are a few guidelines you will need to follow:

• The size must be 8 ½ by 11 inches – no exceptions

• The quilt must be portrait style – 8 ½ inches wide and 11 inches tall

• Nothing can hang out or protrude past the 8 ½ by 11 inches

• The quilt must be three layers and quilted in some manner

• Each quilt must have a finished edge.

• You are committing to have 5 to display at the November 2006 annual meeting.

• Simple display instructions will be given at a later date.

• Please label the quilts as you would normally label any of your quilts

• You might want to have your journal description on the back of your quilt

If you are interested in participating, please contact:
Paula sheron@totcon.com.

Note from Sharon:
I would like to have an idea of how many are up to the challenge. I will be in contact throughout the year to keep you encouraged, give more information or ask questions, and maybe light a spark. Who knows, these quilts might be such a hit that they may be a special exhibit in the future. (We can wish, can’t we?) Let’s have great display and showcase our talents!

An entry form with information about submitting your pages, and award(s) to be given, will be available early next year.

This Challenge is open to all individual SSQA members.

If you would like to view some online journal quilts, here is a link to the QuiltArt website - http://www.quiltart.com/journals/