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Yellow-billed
Hornbill
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- Copyright © 2011 Caryl Bryer Fallert
- Size: 30" x 30"
- Techniques: Hand painted, machine pieced, machine
appliquéd, and quilted
- Materials: fabric: 100% cotton / batting: 50% cotton
| 50% polyester
- Owner: Private Collection: Pennsylvania
- Photo: Caryl Bryer Fallert
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Design Concept
Original pencil drawing for bird |
This quilt was inspired by a photograph I took in South
Africa in 2000. The Yellow-billed Hornbill (tockus leucomelas)
was my favorite South African bird because of it's colorful
beak and graphic qualities. The realistic bird was pieced
and appliquéd using fabric colored with ink and
pencil. Dense thread-work on top of that fabric became
the finishing details of the bird. The background is more
abstract, and is pieced from many different fabrics from
the various collections I have designed for Benartex.
The tree limb was appliquéd with small, irregularly-shaped,
raw-edged pieces to represent the rough texture of the
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Full size drawing on freezer paper |
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| Most of the fabrics in this quilt are from Caryl's Splash,
Atmospheres, and Multi-Tye-Dye Collections for Benartex (available
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Exhibitions:
- Birds in Stitches, Cornell
Lab of Ornithology, Visitors Center, 159 Sapsucker Woods
Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, September 29 - October 30, 2011 (Juror's
Choice Award)
- Bryerpatch Studio Gallery, 2011, Paducah KY
Publications
- Machine Quilting Unlimited, May/June 2012, P.
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