I recenly posted a UFO and then mentioned I had several ideas on how to tackle that theme again differently. Here’s one, combining the UFO’s design with other new work I have been doing recently. The piece I finished today , “Desert Tracks 3” is an entry to something I really want to get into, and the documents will be on their way in a few hours time. Of course, I have known of this deadline for many months, and have been ‘thinking’ about it, but only in the last week or so, at the last minute , once again I have sat up late at night, begun quilting early in the morning, hour after hour, and now need to send it by the most expensive method to meet the closing date for entries. Another artist friend and I were talking the other day about this and she maintains being hard up against a looming deadline brings out her most creative, inspired, work. I would like to think that, since I do this so often, I must be of the same type. So, Q: does the the quality of one’s work increase in indrect or direct proportion to the amount of time left to meet a deadline?