Signature Motif

I read an article a while back about how 19th Century quilters sometimes had a motif that was their quilted "signature." Quilt historians can, or so I read, verify the work of certain notable quilters by the presence of these motifs. I am certainly not a quilter of any note, but I have thought about the whole business of signing or tagging my work so that my heirlooms can be identified when I'm too old to remember what I had for breakfast. I have used those iron-on computer labels, but my personal thought is that they are ugly, they feel weird, and I feel like I am ruining my beautiful quilt. So I thought about this motif idea for a while, sketched a few things, and ended up with this:



My online "persona" is Dandelion, so my motif ended up being a dandelion seed carried on the wind.

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