When I heard about the theme, Communication, I first thought about telephones and how they have changed. I remember when we had a summer camp there were several families on the same line. You had to pick up the phone, listen to see if it was free before you made a call. Then we had a phone but only needed to dial 5 digits. I also thought about last winter when Lois and I were on a trip to Vietnam with a our husbands and a group. As we were traveling we saw many telephone poles covered with wires. I'm sure a lot of the wires were for electricity and not for telephones. I kept thinking about all the calls we make flowing thru the wires. I've attached a photo of the wires. I decided to show different telephones and a tin can phone we used as kids. I machine appliqued the phones onto the backing. I then collected old wires from our basement, stripped off the outer plastic and stitched them in place. I then stamped the words blah blah blah on the quilt.
I remember when we had only 4 numbers to call on a dial phone - showing my age? Nah, missing the old days, that's all.
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I love your quilt, especially the cool, cool wires! I've already reminisced about those fun tin-can phones on another's post. I'm wondering if you have to be as old as I am to remember when we had prefixes to phone numbers. Mine in Austin was Greenwood, which was shortened to GR, and my number then was GR25791. Then my parents moved here to Waco when I was in my 20s, and their number was PL22049; the PL stood for Plaza. The funny thing was, when you gave out your number orally, you'd often say the whole thing: Plaza22049. I am wondering when prefixes went by the board; probably about the time we got area codes!
ReplyDeleteHow good to have a very 3D journal quilt with metal...and one from two times, Vietnam and now. When I enlarged the photos I smiled to a laugh. You have a lot of movement and fun in the piece.I like all your little appliques...telephones with personality and stamping.
ReplyDeleteDA48719 & 63180! Thanks for the memories! The DA in the first number stood for Davenport ( Malden, MA.) where there is still the Davenport Estate. The family "invented" the davenport sofa! The second number was all we needed to use in Rockport, Ma.
ReplyDeleteWhat fun your piece is, from the curly telephone wire to your various forms of telephones through the decades!
I love how you incorporated the wires into this piece. Your various phones are great and the Blah, blah, blah made me laugh!! Great retrospective on the phone!!
ReplyDeleteReally fun unique solution to the challenge Tricia. Love it, especially the blah blah blah!!!! I hope all the stuff works in your house after pulling out the wires. I'm only kidding. If I had known I could have sent you up plenty of old wires we pulled from our rennovation. Fun!!!
ReplyDeleteLove the humor and 3D applications you incorporated. I think we all probably travel memory lane when we view it. Fun!
ReplyDeleteI really like your image of the telephone pole - I always thought they were things of a strange beauty (I love lines!) and also for the memories in your write up.
ReplyDeleteWhat fun this is! My first reaction was "Oh My!" Then I looked at the photo of the real pole and really said "Oh My!" The words and different phones tell the whole story and makes me smile. Great job!
ReplyDeleteFor us growing up in San Jose, CA, the phone number was CL85184. How do we all remember those numbers from so many years ago ! Prior to that, it was a party line and as others have mentioned, we had to listen before we dialed to make sure the other "party" wasn't on the line. Imagine that in this day and time ! I love your story, and loved the 3-D look you achieved with your wild wires, your many-decades of telephones, and of course, the "Blah, blah, blah." What a great piece !
ReplyDeleteThis is a great little quilt, Tricia. So fun, with all the wired, different "phones", etc. A wonderful interpretation of communication!
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