Someone shared with me how they were Bible Quilting a Women's Retreat notes and it made me realize that by Bible Quilting sermon notes or Bible Study notes would help me meditate on God's word more thoroughly. The attached picture is the notes from a recent sermon at our church and also made me think of new friends I've made through Bible Quilting.
I've been thinking as I read through these that this method could be great for any type of notes -- not necessarily just spiritual things. I'm SO not artsy; I think in words, not pictures. So when I was reading something about Mind Mapping a number of years ago, they said it's important to use colors and images when mapping because it helps with recall...but I tried it, and I found that if I gave myself five minutes to Mind Map whatever my topic was at the time (I forget now what it was), I got one thing on the page -- and I froze up and spent the entire rest of the time trying to figure out what to draw. 😂 If I gave myself another five minutes and just wrote words, I ended up with a whole pageful. One of the amazing things about your method is that it lets you start by just doing the writing, in as linear a fashion as necessary, keeping the decorating a separate step. That means you get to add all the color and embellishments that add that visual-recall aspect (and also make it just plain pretty!) but aren't bogged down trying to do it from the beginning. It's kind of like not trying to write and edit all in one pass.