Quilt Notes: TAKING WING is illustrated in Judy Rehmel's THE QUILT I.D. BOOK: 4,000 ILLUSTRATED AND INDEXED PATTERNS, published by Prentice Hall, but without templates. To learn to draft your own patterns, using grids, overhead projectors and other traditional and innovative techniques, see the highly acclaimed QUILTING AND PATCHWORK DICTIONARY by Rhoda Ochser Goldberg, 1988.

"No ladder needs the bird but skies
To situate its wings,
Nor any leader's grim baton
Arraigns it as it sings.
The implements of bliss are few --
As Jesus says of Him,
"Come upon me" the moiety
That wafts the cherubim."

~ Emily Dickinson