Art Journal Quilts Going to New Homes

It's not as drastic as it sounds. The wall, which used to look like this:

now looks like this:

It's no longer a Living Room, with a wall of art; it's now a living room, a room where stuff is done, and it's got two sewing machines and is functional. And there are some of the Art Journal Quilts that need new homes. To that end, I'm biting the bullet, gritting my teeth, taking the plunge—all those cliches—and doing another (and, I hope, final) series of eBay auctions. Why? Well, I can't give these away because I sold a number of them when I was making them, and how wrong would that feel to the people who paid for them back then? Plus people have asked me about some of these, wanting to know if I was ever going to part with them. This seems like the best way to do it. There are 9 going to new homes, and I just listed the first one here. It's Art Car, about meeting Kelly Israel and his art car in New Orleans.

These began as an experiment to see if I could make art journal pages on fabric, and they sort of took on a life of their own. This one was a double page spread; most are single pages. I learned as I went along. This first one has fake flowers (on the VW's hood) and plastic ants and flies, and the photo transfer of Kelly's car is stapled on, just as I stapled the actual photo to a page in my journal. I carved the stamp of the VW for the border, and—well, you get the idea. Lots of work, lots of fun, lots of experimentation along the way.

Again, here's the link, and there will be 8 more after this, if I can stand the process. I have a real love-hate thang with eBay, so I may run screaming into the woods. Except there aren't any woods, and how scary is that?