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- Copyright © 2012 Caryl Bryer Fallert
- Size: 30" x 30" (76 cm x 76 cm)
- Techniques: Machine pieced, app;iqued, embroidered,
and quilted
- Materials: fabric: 100% cotton / batting:
50% cotton/ 50% bamboo
- Private collection: McDonough, GA
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Design Concept:
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The design for this quilt was developed after I made a commitment to a new life partner, and also to spending half of my time in the Pacific Northwest. While I was excited about starting a new chapter in my life, I also felt like I was leaping into the great unknown. A picture of my great-niece Marie, jumping over a puddle, provided the perfect image to portray my mixed feelings of fear and exhilaration. Starting with a simple line drawing, I tried many different backgrounds, searching for the lines that best portrayed my feelings. I also tried different ways of integrating the figure into the background and finally settled on a series of swooping curves, many of which grow out of the lines in the figure.
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This is the final line drawing which was printed onto a transparency. (left)
The sketch was projected onto freezer paper to make
a full size drawing. (right)
The drawing was cut up to make individual templates for cutting my fabrics. Below are pictures of the piecing sequence. |
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All of the fabrics in this quilt are from various collections that I designed for Benartex. Some of the shading was enhanced with fabric pencils. Many different colors and values of #40 top-stitching thread were used to complete the images. The fir trees were added entirely with thread and represent my new home on the Olympic Peninsula. I walked around our neighborhood and photographed many different fir trees to get a feel for the shapes of the trees and branches. |
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Exhibitions:
- Bryerpatch Studio Gallery: October 2012
- American Quilters Society Show, 2013, Paducah KY
- 30 Quilts for 30 Years: Solo, traveling exhibition celebrating
30 years of making art quilts.
- International Quilt Market & Festival, 2013, Houston
TX, October 25–November 3, 2013
- National Quilt Museum, Paducah KY, December 6, 2013
– March 11, 2014
- Bryerpatch Studio Gallery, Paducah KY March 15, 2014 – May 1, 2014
- Les Jardins de Magali, Lauris, France, May 8 – May 18, 2014
- Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA, August 1, 2014 – September 21, 2014
- Wisconsin Quilt Museum, Cedarburg, WI, January 14- April 12, 2015
- LaConner Quilt Museum, LaConner WA – July 1–October 4, 2015
- Virginia Quilt Museum, Harrisonburg, VA – October 14, - December 19, 2015
Publications:
- Catalogue of Show Quilts: 2013 (Quilt Week Paducah), American Quilters Society, p.79
- Quilters Newsletter Magazine, August/September, 2014, p.38
- 2017 Port Townsend Gatheringplace Calendar, www.gppt.org, January
- Jefferson County Leader, Arts & Entertainment, Section B, Page 1, November 2, 2016
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