Last night, I dreamt Heidi Klum was critiquing our quilt design for this year's IIDA NY Quilt Auction..."Is this supposed to be a jewelry store?" she asked in her German accent. Thank God I woke up from that nightmare whereby my teammates were trying to hanging rhinestone studded jewelry from the face of our quilt.
Once again, GKV and friends have teamed up with IIDA NY to produce a king-sized art-quilt for the Sustainable Quilt Exhibit and Auction sponsored by Dwell Magazine. This year's quilt is more complicated than ever. Although it seems harmonious & effortless, each individual square is carefully crafted with coordinating fabrics to make up a larger square. In the tradition of quilt making, members of our team make individual 9" squared or larger pieces on their own time, then we collaborate and place pieces together. There are only four members on our team this year, so we have been putting lots of man-hours in for this one!
Above are pieces from my section that I sewed at home. Fabrics are recycled samples from our resource library at GKV. My favorite fabrics are the modern KNOLL samples.
This is the quilt pieced together at 85%. I can't wait to see it completed.
This year's exhibit and auction will be held at OPEN SPACE at 201 Mulberry Street, NYC. Below is a photo of my teammates, Bryan Bennett and Brett Kaplan, at our monthly Haworth workshops.
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