When Jewel M. Edwards rekindled her childhood love of quilting, remembering her dream of "...creating art from the ordinary, gleaning richness and creativity from the common and much-too-forgotten ways of life," she set out on a journey from her Georgia home to Gee's Bend, Alabama, home of the famed quilts, to meet the "strong, hard-working women [who] had vision and determination beyond ordinary imagination." Jewel's own "burning desire to reach over to another place and time and touch spirit of the other self, the spirit of women who had a strong voice and extraordinary feelings about making quilts that tell stories about life" led her through inroads of personal discovery and emotional turns and revelations. More a meditative account than memoir, "Journey of a Georgia Quiltmaker" is a an earnest and heartfelt read.