Amy Struckmeyer is a designer and artist living in Oak Park, Illinois.
Amy’s love for textiles and making began early in her Waldorf School education with lessons in knitting, weaving, and sewing. Her later education and profession in architecture strongly influence her design work and creative process. She designed her first quilt in 2008, finished it four years later, and has been making quilts ever since. While she values craft and tradition in design, she is energized by modern interpretations and creative remixes. Her recent work is rooted in an investigation of geometry and color.
Amy has contributed original sewing and quilt patterns to issues of Modern Patchwork, Stitch magazine, and Quiltfolk Patterns; authored a book of modern appliqué projects; and had her quilts published in Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century and Curated Quilts magazine. She is honored to have a quilt in the Modern Quilt Guild Collection of the International Quilt Museum.
Why "form*work"?In construction, formwork (made of wood, fiberglass or other materials) is a mold into which concrete is poured. Although temporary, it determines the shape of the resulting concrete structure and, once cured, the surface of the concrete retains its imprint. The formwork is the foundation and an essential part of any concrete structure. Also a nod to my background as an architect, I thought this a fitting “brand” to my work as a designer.