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This is gorgeous, although it's been on AT before. I love seeing it again!

if i could afford it, i'd buy one in a second! i think they're such a fabulous idea and really well done.

very nice indeed, but for $3200 i don't know if i'd use them for picnics...

It's nice, but the price point is just too high.

lovely, though i doubt many drooling babies will be wrapped up in one, given their price tag.

Love the idea, hate the price.

This idea is cool but stolen from Ian Hundley (also from Brooklyn). He has been do this longer and I think the results are better looking. Here is a link to a video interview with coolhunting from 2006. http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2006/05/ian_hundley_1.php

neat!

I'm not surprised they cost so much since they look hand quilted. I'm a quilter and it takes hundreds of hours to create something like this...and these are just quilted. They are not pieced tops. So when you work out the cost versus the hours of labor its not actually that much.

But yeah...the price point is why I make quilts and have never been able to purchase one as MUCH as I would love to.

Beautiful work of art.

Yeah, these do seem more "art" than "design", which only matters because there's some kind of prize or honor in the end, I think, so I think winners should be tipping the scale more towards design.

I like the concept, but I'm not too crazy about the execution. Quilts are a lot of work to make, so the price totally makes sense.

This is beautiful, and I love it. While it's way out of my price range, it isn't unreasonably priced because it's a quilt AND silk.

Sigh...

I am a quilter from way back. The price point is too low for the labor involved.

From a person who lovingly pieced and quilted her own daughter's baby quilt, and now is in the process of preserving it in acid-free tissue after working mightily to get the stains out, I have to say that no baby or child is going to get a "tactile" sense of their neighborhood from the quilting on a quilt. Babies and small children think on a much more basic level than that. Babies and small children are going to get a "tactile" sense of the neighborhood by growing up in the neighborhood. It's only going to be much later that they will understand maps, exquisitely quilted or not. And the map of the neighborhood is not what is going to be remembered with fondness. It's going to be the light in the morning, the beloved face at the corner, the candy store ...

For some reason I can't appreciate it; although I found the idea great for the first seconds, the execution doesn't resemble anything like a map and it's unpractical, I mean nobody's going to use it to trace back favourite places or teach a baby. So it looks like too much pain for no reason to me.

I don't agree that these quilts represent a tactile, easy way to remember a neighborhood--especially for wee ones who will be quickly bored by white-on-white stitching (the colored stitching's a bit more compelling, but not much, for little kids). I think Ian Hundley's map quilts are much more compelling with their beautiful colors.

Nobody's going to look at one of Fischer's quilts and go, "Oh! It's a map!" The fun would be knowing the secret that it's a map of a favorite place. . . .

so sick of maps...

I love maps, I'm obsessed with maps, can't get enough of maps. These are a nice subtle way of taking advantage of the beautiful graphic quality of a map. Priced like a piece of art and rightfully so, not that I have that kind of money.

maps are all the rage, might as well jump on the band wagon.

I actually used these when they first appeared on AT, as inspiration for the invites to our housewarming party... I redrew our neighbourhood's map in a very soft yellow on white paper. I wrote the text on top of it. It was a nice background.

Maps have not yet come to France as fashionable decor, so I'm still loving them. I do hate the old geographic school maps you see at antique shops though. I really like this modern quilted spin on a classic !

I voted it down purely on price. At a quarter the price, it would be a luxury item. I understand that quilting takes a lot of skill and time... but that just means that it's a poor choice of material and of method, not that you can charge thousands for it.

These are really wonderful - can't be fully appreciated except to hold one, and feel it. Amazing!

I can lose myself in a map for hours. While I prefer Nolli maps and other historic maps, if you hand me a Rand-McNally atlas, you won't hear from me for quite awhile as I am completely fascinated by minutia such as "Wow, who knew Scranton was so close to Wilkes-Barre?"

This is brilliant and gorgeous. The prices reflect the fact that these are works of art. Think Gee's Bend.

I love your work, very beautiful! You are truly a unique and artistic person Emily! Love you!!!-Val