“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/letters?page=2
Oh, please don't! What a pity to throw away a personal, hand-written letter!
Maybe it helps if such a letter comes with a small hand-crafted quilt?
Such a quilt being an item symbolizing the power of friendship and love?
Even if it is a VERY small one?
I took to making some of those, they are completely hand-crafted and consist of three layers of fabric, just like "real" quilts do. I am fond of traditional patterns - however, for this purpose I choose some which I can use without any templates. Thus the result is a slightly uneven, not so perfectly geometrically arranged little quilt - which is something I like! I think it gives the whole piece an extra touch of a friendly and playful expression.
When finished I fix such a mini-quilt on a folded piece of fine natural-colored watercolor paper, the size of the card is then 12 x 17 cm or 4, 7" x 6,6".
Here are some more:
Ich finde diese Mini-Quilts eignen sich gut für Grußkarten und Briefe?
Diese Minis sind handgemacht und bestehen genauso wie "richtige" Quilts aus drei Lagen Stoff. Ich orientiere mich hier oft an meinen geliebten traditionellen Mustern, allerdings benutze ich nur solche, die ich ohne Schnittmuster verwenden kann. Dies führt zu etwas ungeraden, nicht exakt geometrisch ausgerichteten Ergebnissen - was ich ganz schön finde, es vermittelt einen etwas eher verspielten Eindruck.
Die fertigen Minis befestige ich dann auf einem gefalteten Bogen Aquarellpapier,
die Größe der Karte ist dann 12 x 17 cm.
(in Goethe's home in Weimar)
