How Many Quilts? After having been asked how many quilts I’ve made, who I’m making this one for, Or that one for, or why, and how many quilts do I think I need…. I came to the following conclusion:

I am a creator, an artist, just as much as a painter is…. Does anyone ask a painter who he is painting for or why he is painting yet another landscape? How many pictures/portraits has he painted? How many canvases or paintings does he need? NO! Does a painter stop wanting to paint because he has reached some number that symbolizes the end of his need to paint? “Okay, that’s #100, I’m done now….” I create because I am driven to create. My medium just happens to be fabric and thread, instead of oil or acrylics on canvas… but I create for the same reason… to express myself, to share myself, to experiment…. Even if the quilt doesn’t have a purpose, a recipient, a reason. Quilting is my voice. I Quilt, therefore I am!

Bonnie Hunter