Color Bars is an improvisational way of creating art quilts and I love to make these and teach the class. For people who have always worked from a pattern, this free-form way of cutting and stitching can be called "permission to do your own thing and ignore the quilt police." I am inspired by the works of Rayna Gillman, Dianne S. Hire, and Kathy Loomis, and there are many quilters today who enjoy these techniques.
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| Color Bars #2--Black |
When I first saw Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry's quilts in Houston in the 1980s I became her fan. Her Corona #2: Solar Eclipse that won Best of Show in Paducah in 1989 is my all-time favorite quilt and is a part of the permanent collection of the Museum of the American Quilter's Society. It is also pictured in The Twentieth Century's Best American Quilts.
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| Corona #2: Solar Eclipse by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry |
3 comments:
I love the Color Bars! When I saw the Carol BFG quilt I thought it was your also! I love her work.
Thanks, Tierney...I definitely wanted to caption Caryl's quilt so no one would give me undue credit! Her Corona #2 is my all-time favorite quilt!
Congratulations on the new great grandson. And what fun it is to each a class. I love the improvisational sewing to make a quilt. It's very relaxing to me. And I'm planning to go to Oxford to see Caryl too. Hope to visit with you there.
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