Text Speak - Kelly

I can hardly believe I made it in under the wire.  Couldn't connect to the internet for 3 days and it seemed that everything I needed to get done required SOMETHING off the internet!!  But my wonderful live-in computer guru dug and dug until he found the solution and now I'm up and running very well.

So here it is....the title is Text Speak.  One of the joys of being a grandmother is that your little ones keep you up to date on the latest music, games, electronics, etc.  I text with my grandson often and with others on a regular basis.  Along the way I have had to learn the "language" to keep up.  Now a lot of it is second nature but it seems there are still things I don't get.  But thankfully I can just ask my grandson!! OK so he rolls his eyes like he can't believe I don't know that but it is all in good fun.  Just so you don't miss it....There is a row of smiley faces down the upper left side and asterisks across the top (machine embroidered).  I had a blast making this one.

TEXT  SPEAK

Kelly Hendrickson

Raw edge applique, all hand-dyed fabric background. All text and smiley faces were printed on a computer printer fabric sheet.  I "painted" half of fabric sheet with some leftover dye that just happened to match very well (I love serendipity!!) so some of the texts are green and some white...just like on my text messages. I chose to use a regular binding on this one because all my text messages are "framed" by the edges of my iPhone.

Translations:  THX - thanks,  IMHO - in my humble opinion,  BRB - be right back,   BTW - by the way,   CWOT - complete waste of time,   <<<VBEG>>> - very big evil grin,   C U L8TR - see you later,   *$ - (one of my favorites)....Starbucks!!,  AYTMTB - and you're telling me this because...  And of course ROFLOL - rolling on floor laughing out loud.

Text

A couple of days ago I gave the teaser, but here is the completed quilt. Text - or in general communication - is so important that it can be very akward if you do not understand the other party. Speaking the same language is essential. This is the idea behind my quilt for this month. Kelly has a stamp with old Egyptian hieroglyphs which I used to stamp a piece of fabric.
All the fabrics used are my own hand dyed ones. To be honest I hade made the background top years ago, it was still waiting to be used and finally for this theme I could use it :-).

Text me - teaser

My original idea for this theme was to use autocorrect and then focussing on one of those annoying corrections you get when texting. Especially when you text both in Dutch as well as in English it can become very confusing and annoying. However I was not really happy with the lay out of this idea so I decided to switch to another idea. Which one? The picture above might give you some idea. Now I only have to create it. I will show you the result in a couple of days.

November theme

October is almost finished, so it is time to start thinking about the new theme. For November this will be: Text (me). You can either use 'text' in general or focus on ' text me' . The choice is yours.