Pressure, pressure! Must produce a quilt today! This is an excellent exercise for me because I am a procrastinator – always wait for the deadline. With my current challenge, I just have to DO IT!! No staring at the design wall for days on end. Just choose the fabric, sketch the design and do it!!

I a finding inspiration in strange places. Yesterday while waiting for pizza to cook, I found the ad that inspired last night’s piece. Today, I was wearing a new Chico’s tee shirt with a wonderful leaf pattern. The bookkeeper at church, (a guy) told me I should make a quilt like the shirt. So here it is:

I call this the Chico Bird of Happiness! The background is from one of the pole dyed pieces I did. I managed to use a lot of Mrs. Mel’s scraps in this!

I wanted to say more about the art that Allegra does. She was the hostess for the Surface Design meeting yesterday. She has an installation piece that has been shown in many venues and is now going to a show in Germany. She has taken The Koran, The Torah and The Bible and cut each page in each book in such a way that it unfolds and hangs down from the book. The three books are suspended from meat hooks in the ceiling and the pages just co mingle as they cascade down to a globe which looks as if blood as been spilled on it and it has symbols of the three religions on the globe. It is very powerful. Since the current installation is in Oregon, I only got to see photos.

It is past my bedtime. John Stewart and The Daily Show is over – that is how I know!