Maria showed me a phone photo of her newest project, the beginning of a new quilt with a mystical kind of bird or creature on it. She refused to tell me what it was what it would become – it is a quilt obviously, and I have no idea what she plans to do with it. But I was enchanted by these eyes looking out at me, I saw an owl or a vulture or a scavenger of some kind, but I don’t know if that’s true. I call it the Secret Mystical Bird Quilt, Maria says she hasn’t gotten to the point of naming it.

She is very secretive when she starts a project, I’m not sure she knows where it’s going and she’s superstitious about talking about it. She did let me come to the Schoolhouse Studio and take a picture of it, I was excited to see it, it definitely got into my head. I’ve not seen anything like this from her before. But I can tell she is excited about it. You can follow it on her blog.