“Write Me a Note”
Do you have a family bulletin board? Yeah, we do too. But, it has mostly long term things on it like phone numbers. The more pressing “to do” list items end up…well, on the microwave.
What? You don’t do this?
At only 5 feet tall, I realized that the microwave was at my exact eye level, and it was easy for me to notice sticky notes there. Soon, I had my family “trained.” If they wanted me to remember something, they knew they’d be hearing me say “write me a note.”
What’s funny is that a hierarchy has even developed. Low priority items are posted near the hinges, with higher priority ones closer to the handle. And, if something gets really critical, the note hangs off the bottom!
What does any of this have to do with art? Well, I recently read about a magazine challenge in which the small quilts (8.5 x 11) are supposed to include text. My microwave immediately popped into my head and I quickly made a quilt representing this idea.
As you might guess, it’s called Write Me a Note.
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Detail:
It was really fun to depict this little bit of home life in quilt form.
Have everyday events ever inspired one of your quilts?
Ellen Lindner
P.S. The messages are actual ones found on my microwave during the first week of May 2011. I traced them onto fabric, to reproduce the various handwritings.
Very cool!
Thanks!
oh my, what a great idea to capture the feel of today’s life; don’t we wish those flour sack quilting women had left us messages? love it!
Yeah, Cindy, I’m pleased with this concept, as well. Maybe I’ll do it again. Perhaps an annual thing, always capturing the same week in May. Or an entirely different week.
Fun to think about and explore.
Very cool– love the colors too!
Thanks, Terri!