Every year I am amazed just like the first time. This year has proven to be no different. The quilts that amaze me this year are different from years past. While technical execution of these quilts is stellar, what really makes me go gaga now days is design. I really love the organic form of this quilt.
Joanna aka Snarky Quilter posted on her blog about a trip to Oregon and a chance encounter with a quilt show. Of the photos SQ took this one stands out as exuberant quilt porn.
The colors of the hand dyed fabric contrasting with the dark background is just yummy. I want to eat this quilt or at least rub my hands on it.
Sonia Grasvik’s quilt is beautiful. Here is the link Northwest Quilting Expo Quiltporn.
I first saw a quilt that longarmer Lisa Sipes had quilted at Quilt Con 2013 (? I think that was the year). She was really inspiring. Plus I loved her pink hair. I love that she uses the F bomb and occasional uses anatomical terms as adjectives and adverbs. She speaks my language! Take a look at her blog and see what she thinks quilt porn is. Maybe it’s just anything she has quilted? She is really good at what she does.
This quilt speaks for itself. But I can’t help comment about the 3D effect of the design.
While this quilt gives me the heebie jeebies due to all the bees (being stung is NOT on my bucket list), this quilt is beautiful and it certainly evokes a strong reaction. And it pricks me in an visceral way. It makes me hungry for the flavor of sweet golden honey. I do love the color scheme of Gesamtansicht bienenkoenigin by Barbara Lange. This is art quilt porn. 
Quilt Porn has been around as long as mankind has made a three layered sandwich of textiles. Some of us humans just have to be a little different and add a little flair to the everyday practical object that takes it into the world of porn.
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Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry uses the most lush rich colors in her quilts. Hand dying fabrics and careful planning and cutting result in some of the most incredible quilts that I have ever seen. You can look on her web site’s gallery at The Bryer Patch to get an idea. However, the gallery photos can not do justice to the texture and richness her quilts have in person.
If you are a math or physics wiz, you might notice her use of the Fibonacci sequence in many of her quilts. The human brain is faster and better than any known modern computer at recognizing subtle patterns and shapes. I believe this gives her quilts that use it a touch of organization that our human minds identify strongly with and thus we feel comfortable with her quilts. Even when the quilts are of wild shapes and seemingly random curves and spirals, the Fibonacci sequence is something our brains can cling to even though we do not know our brains are doing it. The sequence pulls our eyes around her quilt in a way that mesmerizes and keeps us looking at the quilt much longer than we would without.
Check out this Caryl Bryer Fallert Gentry Talks about her 30 Quilts Exhibit
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