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Yellow-billed Hornbill • 30” x 30” • Copyright © 2011 • Caryl Bryer Fallert • Bryerpatch Studio • www.bryerpatch.com 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% bamboo
  • Price: Private Collection: Pennsylvania
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Design Concept

Photo © 2000 Caryl Bryer Fallert
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 bark.

 

Right: full size drawing on freezer paper
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Yellow-billed Hornbill (detail) • 30” x 30” • Copyright © 2011 • Caryl Bryer Fallert • Bryerpatch Studio • www.bryerpatch.com
Yellow-billed Hornbill (detail) • 30” x 30” • Copyright © 2011 • Caryl Bryer Fallert • Bryerpatch Studio • www.bryerpatch.com
Yellow-billed Hornbill (detail) • 30” x 30” • Copyright © 2011 • Caryl Bryer Fallert • Bryerpatch Studio • www.bryerpatch.com

Original pencil drawing for bird
Below are six steps in the piecing process from the tree branch, which was done first, to the finished quilt top. Free instructions for the "Applipiecing" technique used to join the templates in this quilt are available on our "ARTICLES" page.
Exhibitions:
  • Machine Quilting Unlimited, May/June 2012, P. 45
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