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Spirogyra #5
Printable version
- Copyright © 2012 Caryl Bryer Fallert
- Size: 30" x 30"
- Techniques: Machine pieced and quilted
- Materials: fabric: 100% cotton / batting: 50% cotton
| 50% bamboo
- Owner: Private collection, Southlake, TX
- Photo: Caryl Bryer Fallert
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Here fabrics from the Gradations collection are being auditioned on my ironing table |
Here colors have been chosen and the templates cut in preparation for piecing. |
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Design Concept
For many years a small clipping from a magazine hung over my desk. It was a picture taken through a microscope of spirogyra, a single-cell, filamentous algae, commonly known as pond scum. This the fifth quilt I have made, inspired by the patterns of dots and curving stripes found in that image. This one is quite different from the original inspiration, but evolved from the four previous quilt designs. This entire quilt is a study in intersecting color and value gradations. The wavy lines radiating from the center form transparencies where they cross the logarithmic spiral (a special kind of curve which often appears in nature). The fabrics used are all from my Gradations collection for Benartex. The spiral and background were pieced using my hybrid “applipiecing” method. The dots were appliqued. |
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| The spiral fabrics are quilted in a small meander pattern with matching thread. The radiating background segments are quilted in wavy lines that suggest algae in flowing water. The dots are unquilted. The binding is a dark rainbow fabric from the Gradations collection for Benartex. |
Exhibitions:
- Bryerpatch Studio Gallery, Paducah KY
2012-2013
- 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 (12 quilts) 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
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Installation at International Quilt Market
& Festival, 2013, Houston, TX |
Publications
- Fine Quilting & Fiber Art Guide: Paducah Kentucky, 2013
Paducah Convention & Visitors Bureau, Paducah KY, p. 19
- Paducah Life: 2014: Jan/Feb. p. 9
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