Finding a Name

I love the process of naming quilts.  As a little girl, my father would bring me the Horse Racing  results from nearby Jefferson Downs Racetrack.  I would climb the tree in my backyard and if the wind was right, I could hear the voice of the race caller shouting the names as the horses roared down the track.  I would pour over the horses names in the paper the next day, looking at their winning odds and imagined that I owned the ones with the coolest names.  I had a collection of horse figures my father would bring home from his business trips, all with exotic names that drifted to me over the night air.

Later, as I was showing dogs across the Southern states, I always bought the show program and poured over the names and pedigrees of the entries.

So, yeah, names have always be a fascination for me.

As the blocks went together I was reminded of a diamond.  I think it was Katherine Jones who did that diamond quilt that won at QuiltCon in 2017 called Bling.  You can see it here:

Bling

But that is not what I had in mind when I started.  All I was thinking was that I loved those strips that Kelly brought to the Baton Rouge Modern Guild meeting last week.  I just ran with it.  And it just happened. All 60x 66 square inches of it.

So I looked up some diamond terminology and came up with these possibilities.

Marquise and Baguette which are both diamond cuts.  But those seemed so benign for me.

But I also liked the sound of Carbon Spot which is an imperfection in the diamond.  This of course is nothing as precise as Katherine’s exquisitely pieced Best of Show Bling.


And Carat Spread.  That is when two diamonds are similar in size to the eye but one is cut short and fat which makes it a lower carat weight....thus selling for a lower cost but looking like the more expensive diamond.