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- Copyright © 1994 Caryl Bryer Fallert
- Size: 81" high x 56" wide
- Techniques: Hand dyed and painted, machine pieced,
and quilted
- Materials: fabric: 100% cotton / batting: 80% cotton
/ 20% polyester
- Private Collection: Illinois
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Design Concept
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This is the sixth in a series of painted, whole cloth quilts.
The fabric was painted with fiber reactive dye in an expressionistic
design, then layered with batting and backing and quilted
heavily by machine. The machine quilting becomes a major design
element in this piece, providing a foreground dimension that
is contrapuntal to the painted background design. Top stitching
thread in many different colors was used, so the stitching
could be clearly seen against the background.
The bird image in the quilting was inspired by the great
blue herons, which nested in a small marsh area a short walk
from our farm in Northern Illinois. The remainder of the imagery
in the quilting came directly out of my imagination, and was
quilted freehand, with no marking of the quilt top.
The back of the quilt is black fabric, with a side border
of dye painted fabric. The bobbin threads in the machine quilting
are close to the colors of the top threads, and show up clearly
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Exhibitions and Awards:
- PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL QUILT FESTIVAL, 1994, (juried)
SanFrancisco, CA (HONORABLE MENTION)
- Speaking of Values, Eastcoast Quilters Aliance, 1994
(juried) Westford, MA (FIRST PLACE - Quilting excellence)
- MID-ATLANTIC QUILT FESTIVAL, 1995, Williamsburg, VA
- 15th ANNUAL SMOKY MOUNTAIN QUILT SHOW, Dogwood Arts
Festival, 1995, Knoxville, TN (BESTWALL QUILT, FIRST PLACE,
& BEST MACHINE TECHNIQUES)
- QUILTERS UNLIMITED SHOWCASE, 1995, Kansas City, MO
- PHEASANT RUN QUILT EXHIBITION, 1995, (juried) Pheasant
Run Expo. Center, St.Charles, IL
- QuiltFest of Jacksonville, 1995, Prime Osborn Convention
Center, Jacksonville, FL Aug 24-Sept.18 (FIRSTPLACE, BEST
MACHINE QUILTING, BEST OF SHOW)
- QUILTS=ART=QUILTS, Schweinfurth Arts Center, 1995, (juried)
Auburn, NY (FIRST PLACE WHOLE CLOTH • JUDGES CHOICE
FOR COLOR AND DESIGN • PEOPLES CHOICE)
- SPECTRUM: THE TEXTILE ART OF CARYL BRYER FALLERT, 1996-1997,
Two year traveling, solo exhibition: The Museum of the
American Quilter's Society, Paducah, KY; Illinois Art
Gallery, State of Illinois Bldg., Chicago, IL; The Illinois
State Museum Gallery in Lockport, IL; Illinois State Museum,
Springfield, IL
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Publications
- Machine Quilting Made Easy, Maurine Nobel, 1994 That Patchwork
Place (pub) p.29
- QUILTING INTERNATIONAL, May 1995, p. 38
- CARYL BRYER FALLERT: A SPECTRUM OF QUILTS, 1983-1995 —
1996: AQS Books, pp 11,84,85
- ILLINOIS TIMES, Springfield, IL, Thursday, January 2,
1997, p. 15
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