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Do you name your quilts?  Maybe that sounds like a silly question but I was thinking tonight how I do give my quilts some sort of name.  Very rarely do I just stick with the name of the pattern and more often than not it is a name that blends not just the pattern design but what the quilt means to me. Sometimes its the fabric or the purpose, who it is for or why I’m making it.  Often, just the name helps me determine how to do the final quilting or even what I will put on the label.

For example, I made a quilt a couple of years ago that was an attic window pattern. Nothing special per se, but I was using a landscape print so that it looked like you were looking out of a cabin into the woods. It reminded me of when I lived in California and we would travel up north for vacations into the redwoods. So the quilt became my “Hotel California”.  Every time I worked on that quilt and even when I made the label, the Eagles song ran through my head. It still does whenever I think of this quilt. When I made the label, I took a scan of a vintage redwood photograph and added my quilt name.

Hotel California

Hotel California label

This weekend I was finishing up my “Berry” pupster quilt and knew that it needed a name (well, a name other than just ‘his’ name), especially since he will be going in the Sauder quilt show.  And of course it came to me… “Love is a Warm Puppy”.  I’m so thrilled to be done. It was very hard to take that first stitch, but it came together so easily. Love my Statler!  Recommendations from fellow longarmers were to use a smaller needle (yes, I did break one!) and slow down.  But there were no problems going through the fusible nor did any of my piecing fall apart.  I’m very pleased and I hope you will stop by Sauder to see him in person.

Love is a Warm Puppy

That’s all for this week.  Happy (and warm) quilting everyone!

~Kathy