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I took this photo over the weekend. It has a quality that seems interesting and that could work for a (small squares) pieced top with some very unusual stitching as embellishment.

Here is the link to a great 10-minute video on the musical creative process for recording artist, Stephen Merritt. NPR gave him an opportunity to choose two items to use as the basis for creating a song within 48 hours. The results, completed within that 48 hours, are quite interesting especially how he used the two items selected. (I won't say anything more.) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15859351 How does Stephen's creative process relate to the art quilter's creative process? Have you ever chosen two items for inspiration (that don't have anything to do with each other) and created an art quilt from them? It might make for an intriguing challenge concept!

"House of the Thistle People" I participated in this challenge shortly after returning from a lovely trip to Scotland earlier in the year. Since the last issue of Quilting Arts Magazine featured select entries from the challenge (mine -- not among them), I'm posting a photo of it because the piece pleases me. To accompany it, I submitted a story because the imagery seemed a bit disconnected without an explanation. Included here is that story. (Please kindly observe the copyright.) The Rise of the House of the Thistle People This story begins long ago, before great cities and large numbers of people, but shortly after man’s appearance…in the scheme of life. The elf kingdom, before moving behind Avalon’s mists, decided it couldn’t leave the world without magic and the ability to foresee the future. So, the elves crowned a new family of beings to carry on their work. The thing was…these new magical beings were not beautiful as the elves had been. Rather, these beings w