When Meg Cox appeared on The Quilt Show, she, Alex and Ricky issued each other a challenge to create a quilt based on a broadway musical. For Ricky's quilt, it should come as a surprise to no one that his inspiration was his favorite musical, Hamilton, based on the life of Alexander Hamilton. The quilt, Hurricane, takes it's name and inspiration from a key point in Hamilton's life when a hurricane ravaged his town. Alexander wrote an essay in response to the storm and after reading it a group raised funds for him to travel to New York to receive his college education and start his path towards the American Revolution. Ricky says, "There is a song where Hamilton is reminiscing about life and how his words have been his salvation as well as his ticket to advancement. In the song he sings, “In the eye of the hurricane there is quiet, for just a moment, a yellow sky”. That phrase became my inspiration for this quilt."

 

 

See Ricky's quilt and the other challenge quilts in Challenge Quilt Designs with Meg Cox, Alex Anderson, and Ricky Tims.