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.