116. Chain Letter/Chain Link

 I originally named this quilt Chain Letter. I had a set of beautiful hand dyed fabric from Cherrywood in sea glass colors. 

I had come up with this block for a virtual quilting bee, I think for Amy of Diary of a  Quilter.

The block I designed is called Chiral Music (named by our son, Aaron), a rather quirky name. I had texted him a picture of the block and said I felt it needed a better name than "In and Out" or "Hello-Goodbye," and he immediately texted back "chiral." I wondered if he had meant "choral" because I had never heard of the term "chiral." He said that chiral refers to a molecule that appears to be a mirror image but actually is not exactly superimposable (he knows a lot of scientific information). I liked the name a lot, and added "music" as kind of a play on words since I had originally thought he meant "choral."

Then I played with it and turned the elements around, and this became Block 1.

I spent a weekend with my friend, Elizabeth Eastmond, and we played with different layouts.

We dropped some elements of the block, and this became Block 2.

This became the final quilt.

I submitted it to Modern Patchwork and it was accepted. The editors changed the name to Chain Link.

It was also in a later issue as the example used for an article on modern quilting.

When I decided to make a second calendar, Quilts by the Water, it was photographed by the wharf in Monterey, California.

Title: Chain Link

Pattern by: Me.

Date Completed: 2014

Size: 40" x 40"

Quilted by: Dea Oskerson