Names for quilts?
08-08-2011, 08:47 AM
#2
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Maryland
Posts: 866
I name all my quilts. I don't know why but I do.. I like being creative and coming up with the names. I'm working on a grandmother's garden quilt that is pink (2 shades), green and white. I am going to name it Peonies for Mom. The reason for the name...because she loved peonies and they were the last flowers I gave her before her passing. So to everyone else it will look like just another grandmother's garden quilt but to me its Mom.
08-08-2011, 08:48 AM
#3
Super Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: state of confusion
Posts: 4,541
I do for a few reasons.
1.) If it's my original pattern I'd like to have a unique name.
2.) If I give a quilt to a person, I like to have it have a special name instead of "Terry's Quilt" "Bobs Quilt"
I think it gives the quilt even more personality!
Plus, it's great for documentation
*Edited to add* And I always label my quilts.
1.) If it's my original pattern I'd like to have a unique name.
2.) If I give a quilt to a person, I like to have it have a special name instead of "Terry's Quilt" "Bobs Quilt"
I think it gives the quilt even more personality!
Plus, it's great for documentation
*Edited to add* And I always label my quilts.
08-08-2011, 09:00 AM
#5
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Springfield, Illinois
Posts: 645
I equate it to an artist naming their paintings. If it's just a utility quilt, I rarely name it. Even then, it winds up with a name - we have a yard quilt, a picnic quilt, and a tent quilt. But if it's one I'm going to give or present, I do give it a name to distinguish it from others. And it's fun.
08-08-2011, 09:05 AM
#6
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Odessa, Washington
Posts: 1,872
I like naming my quilts, but I don't name all of them. I do label them with who they are for, the occasion, my name as piecer and quilter, and at least the year I made them. Sometimes it takes as much creativity to figure out a name as it does to make the quilt, but most of the time the quilt tells me its name :thumbup:
08-08-2011, 09:29 AM
#9
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Thumb of Michigan
Posts: 421
LOL - I have some of those also, Buckeye Rose.
Sometimes I can't come up with a name and they get called "the orange quilt" or whatever the name of the blocks are "flannel log cabin". Not very imaginative, but descriptive.
Sometimes I can't come up with a name and they get called "the orange quilt" or whatever the name of the blocks are "flannel log cabin". Not very imaginative, but descriptive.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
bearisgray
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
23
10-27-2013 07:28 PM
