Sundial
This quilt was originally for a
contest. Using specific fabrics, I was
supposed to make a quilt. Of those
fabrics, I only used six. For some reason,
I decided that each block should represent either a sun or a moon. Why this is what struck my brain, I don’t
know, but I decided to run with it.
Unfortunately,
my quilt did not make it past the first round of judging. As disappointing as this is, I realized that
by having my quilt not be accepted, I could make the pattern available all that
much earlier. All I had to do was figure
out a name to go with it. I had
forgotten what name I had come up with for the contest, and as I had to think
of that one so quickly, I wasn’t sure I wanted to use it as the final name
anyways.
For some reason,
though, unlike with other quilts, a name refused to come to me. Over and over my mom and I thought of
different names for this quilt. There
were so many that I eventually had to write them down, then I added even
more. Then all of the sudden, even
though many of the suggested names were not in this direction, the word
“sundial” came to mind. It fit
perfectly. With a centerpiece block, the
alternating sun and moon blocks are like the light and shade of a sundial. The fact that this quilt could possibly be
made in a day, made the name even more perfect.
So, choose six
fabrics and make your own sundial. Like
an actual sundial, don’t be surprised if it only takes you a day.
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