The Mysterious Blanket.
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This quilt was in a thrift store in Vacaville, CA, a few years ago and was posted on a Facebook page I'm part of dedicated to weird thrift store items. I'm not the person who posted it, but I've been intrigued ever since. The person who took this photo doesn't have it; she was scared of it and only took this photo.
Observations: it's probably a glass of water, not jelly. It's blue, jelly doesn't run like that. tears?
The "bacon" is the sandwich, but on its side, as you can tell by the same color as the crust of the bread. If it were bacon, it would be red like the lid
There is an x or - or + where the sandwich touches all three items, gate, mail and phone
envelope, microwave, oven, bed or something else?
gate, fence or fries? From above, I would say it's a gate, it also has a handle
quilt-inception, the phone has the same number of buttons as the squares in the quilt
A story starting with blue read from left to right, then brown, still without any real meaning
Communication quilt? No. no one will want soggy peanut butter bread
Watergate / eleição Carter
Misheard Song Lyrics / Inside Joke
Penicillin
You can add water to stale bread and bake it to make it fresh again
A scientific experiment with moldy bread, but never made with peanut butter, from what I can tell
All starting with p?
Something to do with prison
What are your theories?
I do think it's best to read it blue and then brown. They follow similar patterns of three squares of individual components and then three squares of combinations.
I suspect somebody likes having peanut butter sandwiches and a glass of water.
The gate, phone, and envelopes are all three ways to share or get the word out about their love of peanut sandwiches. The quilt is another way to get the word out about their love of peanut butter sandwiches.
I honestly find the fact people are trying to make a meaning over some quilt really funny.
It is funny and fun. I bet whoever made it would be a hoot to talk to. I also wonder if the blue liquid is actually water or some other liquid and they didn't want to screw their color palette up or what they had was limited.
Even though it's kinda nonsensical, it's rather fun to pass your time making stories based on images. It's what school made us do sometimes at tests, huh? So we gotta do it for fun too sometimes.
PS: I decided letting my schizophrenia make a story about it, here you go:
::: spoiler I know I'm tweaking A LOT here, but um To me, the PB thing looks more like medicine than peanut butter, so:
Bread: A person.
A phone: Spreading the secret
A glass of something: The secret itself (which must be something bad—you’ll understand why)
Fence: The secret was kept/happened without anyone seeing.
Wet Bread: The person accepted what they did, “absorbed” it, and didn’t tell anyone, but they’re still acting a little strange. (Wet bread still looks kinda weird)
Envelope: More about telling the secret, this time to people farther away
Medicine: The person who kept the secret was mentally unstable
Bacon and Phone: The bacon heard about the secret
Bread and Cheese: The cheese has dark spots. Mold? Maybe. The secret is something genuinely “rotten.”
Bacon, Fence, and Cross: The bacon went to investigate and found out (+ and - because one bacon tried to deny it)
Bacons: Just the Bacons themselves
Bacons, Envelope, and Cross: The Bacons reveal the secret beyond their circle (authorities?) :::
EDIT: CHANGED THE + AND - MEANING
Ha! That is a fun explanation. I'm almost convinced you made the quilt yourself
Geez, I wouldn't have the skills to, my hands are too shaky for such :(
Also, thanks. I'm quite imaginative at times.