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The Working Together Quilt
One of the managers of the Reservations Department in Houston, Texas thought it would be a great idea for the agents to make a quilt. She was in for a big surprise when she realized how much time would be involved.
"The Working Together Quilt" took one full year to make and the 35 people involved spent more than 2,000 hours in its construction. Deb Thompson and I designed the quilt with an attic window motif and used the history of the company and its symbols for some of the content. We appliquéd letters of the company name on a sky like fabric. We photocopied and transferred to fabric pictures of the cities we serviced and we made flags of our host countries.
On the sides and back of the quilt we used slogans and logos and in the border we wrote the 4 cornerstones of Continental's go forward plan and appliquéd airplanes lining up on a runway ready to take off to their destination.
The back of the quilt probably has the world's largest label as the portraits of all 35 people involved and their signatures line the edges and bottom of the quilt.
The quilt hung at the International Quilt Festival at Houston's George R. Brown Convention Center, October 23-26, 1997 and at the Houston Intercontinental Airport, now Bush Intercontinental, for several months and now resides at the reservations office of Continental, now United Airlines. 14' X 8'
The Working Together Quilt - Back Side with Label
One of the managers of the Reservations Department in Houston, Texas thought it would be a great idea for the agents to make a quilt. She was in for a big surprise when she realized how much time would be involved.
"The Working Together Quilt" took one full year to make and the 35 people involved spent more than 2,000 hours in its construction. Deb Thompson and I designed the quilt with an attic window motif and used the history of the company and its symbols for some of the content. We appliquéd letters of the company name on a sky like fabric. We photocopied and transferred to fabric pictures of the cities we serviced and we made flags of our host countries.
On the sides and back of the quilt we used slogans and logos and in the border we wrote the 4 cornerstones of Continental's go forward plan and appliquéd airplanes lining up on a runway ready to take off to their destination.
The back of the quilt probably has the world's largest label as the portraits of all 35 people involved and their signatures line the edges and bottom of the quilt.
The quilt hung at the International Quilt Festival at Houston's George R. Brown Convention Center, October 23-26, 1997 and at the Houston Intercontinental Airport, now Bush Intercontinental, for several months and now resides at the reservations office of Continental, now United Airlines. 14' X 8'
As a genetically predisposed to fabric and thread person, Ivy Jensen expanded the traits inherited to include surface design, marbling, machine quilting, creating art to wear and jewelry. She uses techniques and materials in new and different ways.