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		    			| Klee's Hen and Chicks |     							    	
			    	 			    	
			    						    	
			    		| 27.5 x 27.5 inches (70 x 70cm) | 					    	
			    	 
			    						    	
			    		| Cottons and San Blas appliqued molas, machine pieced and hand quilted. | 					    	
			    	 
			    						    	
			    		| 2005 | 					    	
			    	 
			    						    	
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			    		| The hen mola came first here. Then came the 'Hen and Chicks' patchwork pattern which morphed into Paul Klee's arrow symbols when I started making fabric decisions. Amazingly I discovered the British textile print based on Klee's work in my stash and after that the quilting design required no decisions - my needle just "took a walk" as Klee often said about his pencil. However, since hand quilting is permission for my brain to also wander at will, I couldn't help but remember the 20 years my parents were KFC franchisees and what chickens had meant to my family. The upper left blue quadrant is a needled sketch of the original KFC image building. | 					    	
			    	 
    			 
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			| Photo by Carlos Tobon | 
			
    			
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