Leaving your name on a quilt is the same as signing a work of art. I hope we all would want a signed original painting of a master. Believe it or not, our quilts are our master pieces. Just antiques and paintings have a provenance, our signatures, dates, and who it is for provide a tangible line as to how a quilt gets somewhere. We might not be thinking our quilts will be around 100 years from now, and perhaps they won't. But if they are, they are our link with the living. For me, I will be signing my quilts. I want my great great nephew, or daughter to know who made that blanket that comforts them, or delights them when I am no longer around for them to know me any other way.