Adventure Quilter
Ellen Lindner uses fabric the way a painter uses paint, with extraordinary results
I finished up my little (18 x 18) scrap quilt and I’m pretty happy with it. I’m calling it Seeking the Horizon.
Detail shot.
All the fabrics are dyed and printed by me. I think they have a lot of impact together!
Ellen Lindner
P.S. If you read about my quilting problems in the previous post, you can see that I improved upon it.
P.P.S. I made this for an exhibit called “Reflections.” It sorta has that quality, doesn’t it?
I had some interesting scraps left over from Waiting for the Lightnin’ Bugs.
As you can see, they included many skinny triangles, so I knew that would drive my design. And, because they were so skinny, I knew I’d use a collage technique, rather than piecing them.
After creating a background, I started with the brightest shapes, placing them off-center.
More trial and error.
It was taking shape. But, when I started quilting it I had a terrible time with the concentric circles I wanted to use. I’m just not good with parallel curves!
Deep breaths.
Much of the above was picked out. After drawing the desired lines I redid a lot of it and it looked much better. Thank goodness!
Ellen Lindner
I made this quilt about 10 years ago. It’s only 12 x 12, but I really like it.
I was looking through my photos the other day and I thought this image might look great somewhat abstracted. And increased in size.
So, I started working on PIECING it, to be about 24 x 24. Here’s my very early start.
I was keeping everything big and loose. I wanted the pieces big so I could cut them down later to their more accurate sizes and shapes.
Right away I found it difficult to abstract things. My very LEFT brain wanted to reproduce things fairly accurately and I spent WAY too much time thinking about that! I did find that I could add a little abstraction by cutting and off-setting pieces.
As you can see above, I left a good bit of excess fabric initially.
I added some more and pieced some more. WHY did I decide to piece this??? Collage would have been so much easier.
Still, I’m enjoying the challenge – slow as it is.
Ellen Lindner