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| 2010. Machine-pieced, hand-quilted. 41.5 inches square |
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| 2010. Machine-pieced, hand-quilted. 41.5 inches square |
If you’re a quilter:
1) Begin with a square.
2) Divide the square into a nine-patch and remove the center square. (The sky shows through.)
3) Divide the remaining eight squares into nine-patches and remove the center square of each.
4) Divide the remaining 64 squares into nine-patches and remove the center square of each.
5) Divide the remaining 512 squares into nine-patches and remove the center square of each.
6) Keep going. (I stopped after completing Step 4.)
If you’re a mathematician:
This is the third iteration of a Sierpinski Carpet, a plane fractal named after Polish
mathematician Waclaw Sierpinski in the early 20th Century.
FRACTAL DIMENSION:
In the fractal, there are 8 identical figures, each of which has to be magnified 3
times to get the entire figure. The fractal dimension (or Hausdorff dimension)
is log 8 / log 3, which is approximately 1.89.
AREA:
After every iteration, we leave 8/9 of the area of the figure. To find the area of the
figure after n iterations, we have to raise 8/9 to n. After an infinite number of
iterations, the area will be 0.
The quilt was displayed at the following quilt shows:
Three Rivers Quilters Quilt Show, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 2010
American Quilters Society, Des Moines, Iowa, 2011
Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, California, 2011
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