Subversive quilting
I read a mystery novel where a woman wrote curses with the quilting stitches in some quilts she wrote. And I watched videos of people using long arm machines, and it was like they were just writing with them, all fluid and easy. I spent the day with a friend of mine who works in a phone bank as a bill collector. She told me their new productivity technique is to tell the workers, "No talking. Face forward and dial." Whaaaattt? Seriously? After we'd joked about it for a few hours, all those quilting ideas came together into my subversive quilt idea. I'm gonna make her a shirt, and the quilting is going to say Face Forward and Dial. Now I have to decide: many small lines of type, like stippling, or big fancy scrolly letters... Decisions, decisions. A subversive's work is never done.