03 / The Backing / Participatory layer

Quilting
beyond
Time

The backing touches the body and carries the quilt outward. Online, it becomes the public layer: a clean tool for access, movement and participation.

Isometric illustration of the quilt sandwich with the backing layer highlighted.

Several 'QUILTING TIME' workshop posters in blue, yellow and lilac patchwork blocks, pasted around a stairwell corner.

From memory to participation

A quilt is finished. Its story is not.

Every quilt carries the time, care and memories stitched into it. What remains is not only an object, but an invitation to remember, share and continue the story.

Archive / Held in Weimar

It's QUILTING TIME

Date: 20 May 2026, 3–6pm
Location: Textilstudio, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Quilters: Heike Rosenbaum & Franziska Kluge – board members, Patchwork Gilde Deutschland
Participants: 15
Materials: Jeans scraps and donated fabric
Result: One community quilt, pieced over two days – plus a brooch-making option for early finishers.

Workshop Trace

Two days, one shared quilt.

Quilting has always had a social side: a quilting bee once stretched a shared quilt across a frame so several hands could stitch it at once. "It's QUILTING TIME" translated that into a textile workshop – a free square on day one, a letterform square on day two – before every square was joined into one community quilt.

Heike Rosenbaum, one of the workshop's quilters, laughing while demonstrating a technique.

A pile of folded denim and patterned fabric scraps.

Two participants picking fabric scraps from a box while sewing letters together.

The workshop group standing outside, each holding a hand-sewn fabric letter that together spell QUILTING TIME.

Three participants sitting together at a table, sewing fabric letters.

A participant holding up a finished free square with a hand-appliqued heart.

A close-up of a hand stitching a yellow patch onto a denim square.

An overhead view of finished quilt blocks laid out together.

A quilter pressing a fabric seam flat at an ironing board.

A participant cutting pink fabric on a denim square resting on their lap.

Three participants sewing hand-cut fabric letters together at an outdoor table.

All the hand-sewn fabric letters laid out on a table, spelling QUILTING TIME.

The workshop poster taped to a wooden sign outside the Textilwerkstatt building.

The whole workshop group indoors, each holding up their finished quilt square.

Collective Surface

From one grid to one quilt.

Individual blocks, made separately, still add up to a shared surface once they sit next to each other – the image on the right is one real record of that moment, before a single stitch joined the squares. The tool further down gives the same collective-surface logic a temporary digital form.

Heike Rosenbaum and Franziska Kluge – the workshop's quilters from Patchwork Gilde Deutschland – then sashed, bordered and quilted the squares into one finished piece, turning many hands into a single object you could actually wrap around yourself. Drag the handle to watch it happen.

Community quilt blocks arranged edge to edge in a grid, not yet sashed or quilted together.

The same blocks now sashed, bordered and quilted into one finished community quilt spelling It's Quilting Time.

Playground

Quilt digitally –
make your own square.

Same collective-surface logic as the workshop above, translated into pixels. The grid below is the working cloth: add an optional block template, then choose shape and color. Click a placed piece to rotate it, then export your own quilt block.

8 x 8 quilt block / export 4000 x 4000 0 forms

Community Quilt

Every visitor's square, joined into one.

0 squares so far

Live during the exhibition, 4–24 August – each square added above joins here, the same way the individual workshop blocks became one shared quilt.

No squares yet.

Be the first to add one above ↑

The fabric-bound cover of the printed Quilting Time book, dark blue linen with an appliqued yellow star quilt block and a satin ribbon tie.

The Printed Book

The deeper research lives on paper.

Quilting Time began as a printed editorial book: essays, an extended history and process photographs from the studio, bound by hand in fabric. It holds the research this website only summarizes.

The book is available to purchase – get in touch below for a copy.

Preview the book ↗

The folded corner of a quilt with an appliqued apple and leaves, its floral backing visible underneath.

Web as Backing

Not a 2nd book.
A place to continue.

The website keeps the project open through short readings, soft movement, workshop traces and an interactive grid. It does not replace the printed book; it gives the research another surface to touch.

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Acquisition & Contact

Interested in a quilt?

Some of the quilts presented in this exhibition are available for purchase. If you are interested in acquiring a quilt or would like further information, please get in touch.

Contact

Soo Ah Youn

E-mailsooahy0518@icloud.com
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Quilting Time · 2026