*Ladies and gentlemen, aliens and dragons, please extend a warm Mad Genius Club welcome to the were-slushreader, Pam Uphoff.*Quilts
We hit the Houston International Quilt Festival a few months ago. It was, as always, terrific.
Quilting is a pretty good metaphor for writing as well. All those little scraps in coordinating _and_ contrasting colors, carefully pieced together to show the larger picture, then padded and stitched over for depth and continuity. Not to mention keeping all that padding in place.
http://www.quilts.com/fqf09/
Check out the winner's page. The pictures don't do them justice.
Of course modern quilters go out and buy shiny, brand new cloth and cut it up, just like most of what I write is made up on the spot, at need.
But some of it's been kicking around for years.
Have you ever looked over all those little scraps in your head? You know what I mean. The idea that won't leave you alone until you jotted it down, and then you can get back to what you were supposed to be writing. I've brought together some amazing contrasts, but once you've pieced them together in a pattern, it works.
Especially in a "What's the worst thing I can do to this character" way.
What odd scraps do you have laying around? Can you sew them together and come up with a story?
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