Creating a series of 100 related art works goes back at least to 1830s Japan where blockprint artists competed to create 100 views of local sights, such as Hokusai's 100 Views of Mt. Fuji (samples: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Views_of_Mount_Fuji).

In 1967, in homage to those Japanese artists, Bronslaw Bak created blockprints of 100 Views of Chicago www.artic.edu/artists/33511/bronislaw-m-bak.

In 2002, cartoonist Lynda Barry created a delightful collection, One! Hundred! Demons! drawnandquarterly.com/author/lynda-barry/

In 2014, I heard Sonia Philip tell how and why she sewed 100 dresses, having never sewn before: 100actsofsewing.com. Her talk gave me an itch to create 100 art works...

The San Francisco Quilt Guild wanted small quilts for premature babies at Kaiser Hospital, so I quickly pieced up a few quilt tops. This gave me a framework to change my rules every ten quilts: 24” x 24” quilt tops from leftover blocks. What fun! By # 9 I realized this was my 100 works project. After checking that other guild members would topstitch and bind them, I continued making small tops. At #11 I took the leftover scraps from the first ten and started to improvise- which led to the next batch of ten, and so on to 100. Well, 101.

Quilts 49-96

1-10 orphan blocks 11-20 improv using scraps 21-40 using ombre fabrics, (so much fun I made 20!) 41-50 designs from my book Carefree Quilts 51-60 squares & color 61-70 all-in-one applique/quilting, using hand-dyed raw-edged silk 71-81 leftover strips, (11 because I was on a roll) 82-86 open space designs (no fun, so I changed the rule) 87-91 hand applique, (easy to do while traveling) 92-101 completing unfinished projects from my UFO drawer.

For quilt guilds I now offer a talk called 101 Quilts Later – Why I Did It & What I Learned.

About half the quilt tops (not shown here) were donated to Kaiser Hospital, after completion by guild volunteers. The hospital offered a selection of several quilts to each pair of premie parents, suggesting that they take their chosen quilt home, sleep with it a few nights and then return it to the hospital nursery. Their scent on the quilt gives their baby a chance to bond with its parents before it gets home.

I'm topstitching (learning freemotion stitching!) and finishing the rest of the quilts. As they are completed they will be posted here. Please email me for purchase. 101project@joy-lily.com

Snow Flowers (#48) Wall quilt, machine-stitched cotton. $175       28" x 28"       Enlarge	Gone Dotty (#57) Wall quilt, machine-stitched cotton. $175       24" x 24"       Enlarge	Blue Squares (#51) Wall quilt, machine-stitched cotton. $175       24" x 24"       Enlarge	Sunflowers (#13) Wall quilt, machine-stitched cotton. $140       19" x 22"       Enlarge
Purple Heart (#89) Wall quilt, machine-stitched cotton. $175       24" x 24"       Enlarge	Turners Morning Star (#56) Wall quilt, machine-stitched cotton. $175       24" x 24"       Enlarge	Red & Green Fans (#92) Wall quilt, machine-stitched hand dyed cotton. $175       24" x 24"       Enlarge	Hawaiian Fiesta (#89) Wall quilt, hand-stitched, appliquéd cottons. $225       24" x 26"       Enlarge
Winter Trees (#67) Wall quilt, machine-stitched silk noil. $200       24" x 24"       Enlarge	Blue Net (#70) Wall quilt, machine-stitched hand dyed Silk noil. $200       24" x 24"       Enlarge	Windy Leaves (#64) Wall quilt, machine-stitched hand dyed silk noil. $225       24" x 29"       Enlarge	Six By Six (#66) Wall quilt, machine-stitched hand dyed silk noil. $200       24" x 24"       Enlarge
Caryatids (#100) Wall quilt, machine-stitched cotton. $175       24" x 24"       Enlarge	Little Boxes on the Hillside (#59) Wall quilt, machine-stitched cotton. $175       27" x 27"       Enlarge	Migration Routes (#39) Wall quilt, machine-stitched cotton. $175       21" x 24"       Enlarge	Flutter Babies (#19) Wall quilt, machine-stitched cotton. $175       22" x 24"       Enlarge
Spot in the Redwoods (#63) Wall quilt, hand-dyed silk. $200       24" x 24"       Enlarge	On Fire (#65) Wall quilt, linen and hand-dyed silk $200       24" x 24"       Enlarge	Interplay (#68) Wall quilt, linen and hand-dyed silk $200       24" x 24"       Enlarge	Goodnight Matisse (#69) Wall quilt, hand-dyed silk SOLD       24" x 24"       Enlarge

To document this project, I created a birthday calendar/datebook with images of all 101 quilts; it has spaces each month to write in your birthdays and other important dates to remember. It has no year so it can be used forever. $20 ( + $3.50 US shipping). datebook@joy-lily.com

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