Ann Turley – Time #3
Love Letters
Sending personal letters through the mail has become a dying art. Most communication now adays is done via text or email. My quilt represents the stacks and bundles of personal mail that once traveled via the postal service. “Letters” were first sent by the Egyptins more than 4,00 years ago and in the US, the postal service came into being in 1792. The postal service was integral to the development of the American Frontier by enabling families to mantain contact, newspapers could share events and politians would promote themselves.
Handwritten love letters were an essential method of courtship that found prominence during WW1. My quilt represents the stacks of the letters shared by loveres and often saved, bound by a ribbon.
Materials used – mainly cottons and a portion of a damask tablecloth. It is fused and machine quilted.
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FIFTEEN BY FIFTEEN 
Letters are certainly something to be cherished and this quilt is keeping your series very interesting. Your choice of fabrics adds interest and the red of the stamp draws our interest into looking at the different fabrics.
Letter writing was for a long time an important method of communication that in a very short period of time has almost lost its function. Where I live, the mail is now delivered only every other day – and most of the time my mailbox is empty.
I like how the stamps make a contrast to the neutral envelopes. I also like the way you have “written” the recipient’s name and address on them.
I love how you’ve captured the romance and nostalgia of handwritten letters. Clever composition and use of fabrics makes my eyes scan for a letter for me, well done.
Letters are truly a thing that is disappearing. I am from the generation that wrote and received letters and that was the communication in those days. We would wait patiently for the mail.
I love the way you spread the letters out and stamped them with the red stamp.
I used to write really long letters and loved receiving them too, sadly a dying art. I like the way that the fabrics vary as do the stamps and by keeping the colour palette limited the attention is drawn to the whole. Great work.
I love how you have used different stitches for the writing of the addresses, as a reminder that each person has its own writing ! the red stamps give life to the neutral background.
I am also nostalgic of the time where we were waiting for a letter in the letter box !
A lovely gentle reminder of past times. I still have a bundle of letters from a very special person sent to me over 50 years ago. The colours here are calm but so appropriate and the stitching of the addresses adds important details.
Wonderful idea to represent time. I especially love the addresses written in different stitches. With three more quilts to go, I wonder how will you present the future?
This is a lovely way to remember a slower way to communicate. I have large pile of letters myself, from my mother and from my (now)husband, and I treasure these. You have created the feeling of such a pile of treasure, and have taken care to represent different handwriting by using different stitches. Beautiful work