Challenge 75: Falling in a Golden Swirl

Fast Friday Fabric Challenge #75, November 2012

Challenge Hostess: Silvia Dell'Aere

Title: Falling in a golden swirl
Due: Dec.1, 2012

“Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground gives way under him, and the dream begins.” -Friedrich Nietzsche-

How many times did you fall in your dreams? You can roughly fall and wake up jumping in your bed or you can glide in a low fall while falling asleep, you can fall for just few inches or you can take a long long flight... what about you? How do you fall in your dreams? And how deep are they?

Make me know through a quilt. Tell me not your dreams but how deep they are, show me the moment you fall asleep.

You can make an abstract or pictorial quilt, choose the style that best fits you, but experiment with the “golden ratio” rule to compose your quilt.

Golden Ratio Resources:

Wikipedia about Golden Ratio (very extensive): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

Golden Ratio for artists: http://emptyeasel.com/2009/01/20/a-guide-to-the-golden-ratio-aka-golden-section-or-golden-mean-for-artists/
or tiny: http://tinyurl.com/9o5xuk

Golden Ratio in photography (but useful for quilters too): http://photoinf.com/Golden_Mean/Eugene_Ilchenko/GoldenSection.html
or tiny: http://tinyurl.com/y8u7rv

Examples of Golden Ratio in art: http://www.goldenmeanart.com/

Other example with a quilt also: http://enjoyingmath.pbworks.com/w/page/31293656/ART%20and%20GOLDEN%20RATIO
or tiny: http://tinyurl.com/c4asojc

Golden Ratio Quilts:

Searching with Google for “golden ratio quilt” or “golden mean quilt” or “fibonacci quilt” you will find lot of quilts that depicts the classic Golden Swirl, and a few quilts with a totally different subject that are composed using the Golden Ratio (in its swirl, rectangular or triangular representation or the Fibonacci series that generates it) as a way to divide the space and manage the number, position and dimension of the objects.

Quilts of this kind are:

“Golden Spiral” by Deb Plestid  http://www.debplestid.ca/images/JPG/quiltsforsale/meadow/Golden-Spiral-Large.jpg
or tiny: http://tinyurl.com/d476ve2

“Autumnal Equinox” by Caryl Bryer Fallert http://www.bryerpatch.com/images/quiltrecords/fibonacci2/fibonacci2.htm
or tiny: http://tinyurl.com/cr6hado

“Yoyo1: Forward Pass” by Helen Remick

http://www.helenremick.com/gallery-detail.php?cat=0&ID=10
or tiny: http://tinyurl.com/cj7ud4o

So... let’s get to work and have fun with this! :)