On the very day of my retirement from classroom teaching I had a Damascus Road experience. As I drove home from school I felt an overwhelming, startling need to gather up some cloth and work with it! I had sewn draperies and an occasional skirt but never before had I had a "love affair" with cloth. My life irrevocably changed in those seven miles from school to home and I soon honored my new fascination . I enrolled into three simultaneous quilt classes. Four years have passed, each filled with classes, conventions, quilt shows and guild meetings and I am now enjoying quilting more than ever. I have returned to tutoring students in order to support my flourishing stash and burgeoning shelves of quilt books! New techniques intrigue me as I search for my "style" and I find that cloth portraiture is now my favorite sewing endeavor. This Proverbial Challenge allows me to fabricate my 4 year old grandson Matt enjoying his chicks as I interpret a familiar family saying, "A bird in hand is worth two in the bush."
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