Design Concept

In my ongoing effort to simplify my work I decided to design a series of pieces that combined freeform zigzags, circles, and a few freeform curves. I drew the whole design in Corel Draw and had it printed by Spoonflower.com. I chose to limit my palette to secondary colors, green, orange, purple, and a little golden yellow. As I arranged the shapes in the design, I made the areas where they overlapped into separate shapes and chose duller colors in those shapes to create the illusion that all the shapes are transparent. I quilted the black lines, the circles, and the wavy aqua shapes with a regular sewing machine foot heavy, #30 top-stitching thread. In the rest of the quilt, I used free-motion quilting with many different colors of thread and several different patterns, including circles combined with meanders, zigzags, and echoing crescent shapes. The strips for the matching binding were designed, painted, and printed at the same time as the quilt top. The backing fabric is from my Color Flow collection for Benartex.

Exhibitions:

• Minding Color (SAQA Regional Exhibition), Pacific Northwest Museum of Quilts and Fiber Art, La Conner, WA, August 4, 2021 – October 31, 2021
• Fiber Habit Window, Peninsula Fiber Artists, Port Townsend, WA, January-February, 2022
• Photos Pixels & Pizzazz, (solo exhibition), McLean Textile Gallery, McLean, VA, April 1-May 2, 2022
• International Quilt & Fiber Arts Festival 2022, Edward D. Hansen Conference Center, Everett, WA, October 7-9, 2022, (Third Place)
• Photos, Pixels, & Pizzazz: Digital Quilts by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Special exhibition, Road to California Quilters Conference, Ontario, CA, January 17-21, 2023
• Photos, Pixels, & Pizzazz: Recent Quilts by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Iowa Quilt Museum, Winterset Iowa, December 12, 2023 - March 10, 2023

Publications

• Art Quilt Quarterly, SAQA, 2022, Issue #26, p. 15