This whole challenge thing and working with my altered books is really inspiring me to get back to my quilting. My Bee is discussing doing some Journal Quilts as a group project and I’m very excited about this. Unfortunately, I just missed the deadline for signing up for the actual challenge. I would have liked to have participated in that. I’ll just have to look for next year’s challenge.

But, in the meantime, I already know what I want to do with the Bee project. I’m inspired right now to play with surface design and alternative construction techniques. I want to experiment with incorporating paint, wire, foil, beads, and windows into my quilts. I can’t wait to get started and I hope we have a good group of members who want to participate. The more of us working on the project, the more we can encourage and push each other to try something new.