Design Concept

In 2021, as part of 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. This piece, completed in early February 2022, is the seventh in the series. I drew the whole design in Corel Draw, added some digital painting, and had it printed by Spoonflower.com. I graduated many of the shapes from color to color. 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, and the outlines of the circles with a regular sewing machine foot using 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, spirals, zigzags, and echo quilting. The binding fabric was designed especially for this quilt and the backing fabric is from my Gradations collection for Benartex.

Exhibitions:

• Quiltfest Greenville, Greenville Convention Center, Greenville, SC, April 28-30, 2022, (Second Place: Modern)
• International Quilt Festival Judged Show 2022, Houston, TX, November 3-6, 2022 (Third Place)
• AQS Quilt Week Paducah, Schroeder Convention Center, Paducah, KY, April 26-29, 2023 (Third Place)
• AQS Quilt Week, Grand Rapids, DeVos Place Convention Center, September 13-16, 2023
• AQS Quilt Week, Des Moines, Iowa Events Center, September 27–30, 2023 (First Place: Wall Quilts)
• Photos, Pixels, & Pizzazz: Recent Quilts by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Iowa Quilt Museum, Winterset Iowa, December 12, 2023 - March 10, 2023
• Photos, Pixels, & Pizzazz: Recent Quilts by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden CO, 7/22 – 10/19, 2024
• Pushing the Surface, Johnson Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, Ohio, May 23-September 1, 2025

Publications

• The Quintessential Quilt: Commemorative Program of the 2022 International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, p. 73
• Catalogue of Show Quilts, AQS QuiltWeek Paducah, 2023, American Quilters Society, p. 50
• American Quilter Magazine, July 2023, p. 57
• American Quilter Magazine, January 2024, p. 78