Naming Quilts

Routine Chaos to Scattered Jewels

Last weekend I finished Routine Chaos.  I'm very pleased with the way it turned out.  My husband's first reaction was "that's a lot of white!".  I agree, but love the delicacy the white adds to the quilt.  

The size of the quilt is a bit unusual in that it is narrow and long, it'll work perfectly as a lap quilt for my 6' husband, not a lot of excess on the sides, but plenty to tuck under feet on cold winter nights. 
 

 


I am very pleased with my hand stitching of the binding, along with how well my corners turned out.  If I can just duplicate on future quilts!










 I've also decided upon a new name for the quilt: "Scattered Jewels". 

 Mug Rugs

  

I decided to make a couple Mug Rugs for a gift.

 


I managed to find all I needed in my stash.  Using the last bit of horse fabric from a project of my daughter's, some olive scraps and two fat quarters in aqua.

I used a quilt as you go method to quilt it and then used two different methods to attach the bindings. 

Naming Quilts

In the past when I've made quilts for someone, as I've worked on them I've always thought of them as Nikki's quilt, Katherine's quilt, Will's quilt and so on.  Spending the time on them and then giving them away to the intended person was never a problem.  

Last summer, I was thinking about a baby quilt for a baby due later in the summer.  My daughter challenged me to make a non-gender specific quilt.  My idea was to use up fabric from my stash.  It would be easy to cut leftovers into 3" squares and randomly organize them in the quilt.  I would include traditional gender specific colors and patterns, but would also include fabrics that did not shout baby or gender.  The progress on the quilt was much slower than I expected it to be.  But what surprised me more than anything was the memories many of the fabrics brought back.  

As the baby had not been born ... I didn't have a name to attach to the quilt.  Around the same time I joined an online quilting community and was introduced to the idea of naming quilts ... the name that jumped out to me for this quilt was "Cacophony" ... and so as I worked on "Cacophony" my love for it grew ... "Cacophony" was a quilt of firsts for me.  The first time I cut over 500 pieces for a quilt, machine quilting, bindings, squaring up pieces, burying threads, and more.  In the end I couldn't bear to give "Cacophony" away.  And then I again named the quilt - made from leftovers of "Cacophony" - "Routine Chaos/Scattered Jewels" and cannot let it go either.  

I've started to make a couple of quilts for a Children's Hospital -- in order to assure they are delivered, they have been named -- Mary Bridge 1 and Mary Bridge 2. 

Mary Bridge 1

 

My next project will be to make Summer Baby's quilt.  I should have that done by next fall!