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Flying Free #2
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- Copyright © 1995 Caryl Bryer Fallert
- Size: 93" high x 82" wide
- Techniques: Hand dyed and painted, machine pieced,
and quilted
- Materials: fabric: 100% cotton / batting: 80% cotton
/ 20% polyester
- Private Collection: Winetka, IL
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Design Concept
Flying has always represented freedom to me. This is one
of a series of quilts exploring the idea of flights of the
imagination. From my farm in Northern Illinois, I can see
vast expanses of sky, and huge flocks of migrating geese.
My more immediate surroundings are filled with organic images
of the vines, leaves and flowers and vegetables in my garden.
All of these images have found their way into the abstract
design of this quilt, and each image is inseparably intertwined
or interconnected with the next as they are in life.
The design for this quilt was created in the winter of 1994,
using a computer assisted design program to manipulate a previously
hand drawn design. When the design was complete, it was drawn
onto a piece of paper the size of the finished quilt with
the assistance of an overhead projector. The computer drawing
and the full size paper cartoon each took approximately one
week to complete. After the drawing was complete, I waited
to find a period of time when I would be able to work on the
piecing and quilting without major interruptions. This time
finally came a year later in the Spring of 1995. The piecing
of Flying Free #2 began in early April, and the quilt was
finished in early June.
This quilt was string pieced, i.e. the full size drawing on
paper was cut up, and strips of fabric were sewn directly
to the paper sections. The paper was removed, and the sections
were reassembled to form the quilt top. A variation of the
traditional "Flying Geese" quilt block is incorporated
into three of the curved and tapered templates. 100% cotton
fabrics, hand dyed and hand painted in gradations of color
and value, create the illusion of depth and space.
The machine quilting contains many more organic images of
leaves and flowers. All of the quilting was done freehand,
with no marking of the quilt top. Heavy (#30) cotton top stitching
thread in many different colors was used so the quilting patterns
would show up clearly against the fabric of the quilt top.
Matching threads were used in the bobbin, and these can be
clearly seen on the quilt back.
A single graduated line of "flying geese" curves
and loops diagonally across the back of the quilt, fading
gradually into the background of dark painted fabric as it
nears the upper right corner.
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Exhibitions
and Awards:
- QUILT AMERICA, 1995, Kokomo, IN, HONORABLE MENTION
- PHEASANT RUN QUILT EXHIBITION, 1995, (juried) Pheasant Run
Expo. Center, St.Charles, IL
- FROM PATCHES TO NEON, Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza
II, (juried), 1995, Fort Washington, PA BEST OF SHOW
- AMERICAN / INTERNATIONAL QUILT ASSOCIATION SHOW, 1995, Houston
TX FIRST PLACE
- SPECTRUM: THE TEXTILE ART OF CARYL BRYER FALLERT, Traveling
Solo Exhibition, 1996-1998 Museum of the American Quilters Society,
Paducah, KY, Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, IL, Illinois State
Museum Gallery, Lockport, IL, Illinois State Museum, Springfield,
IL, American Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA, Dunedin
Fine Art Center, Dunedin FL, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell,
MA
Publications
- QUILTS IN ILLINOIS LIFE, 1995: Janis Tauer Wass, Illinois State
Museum, pp. 48 Feature Article
- CARYL BRYER FALLERT: A SPECTRUM OF QUILTS 1983-1995, 1996, AQS
Books, pp. 48-51
- THE QUILTING QUARTERLY, NQA, Summer: pp.14 & 26
- SURFACE DESIGN JOURNAL, 1996, Vol. 20 #3, p 49 (museum ad)
- THE LIVING MUSEUM, Illinois State Museum, Summer & Fall
1996, COVER & feature pp. 24-26
- QUILTS: A WORLD OF BEAUTY, AIQA Quarterly, Fall 1996 COVER
- QUILT WORLD, January, 1998, p 25
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