My latest quilt, Miscommunication, is now complete.
I especially love the dynamic line in this piece! And it think the design matches the concept and title very well. Hooray!
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Ellen Lindner
Have you tried ice dyeing? Oh my! It produces BEAUTIFUL brilliant colors and complex patterns. At a recent group dyeing day, Dij taught us how to do it. First, she showed us various ways to bunch, scrunch, and secure the fabric. Like tie dye, the folds in the fabric affect the way the dye penetrates…
Have you been following along as I’ve used my “Tetris” skills to put this quilt together? I’m calling it Adrenaline Rush. Adrenaline Rush It was challenging at times, but I’m quite happy with the results. I dyed/printed all the fabrics myself! See full details for this piece. UPDATE: This piece got one more radical change. See…
I was making good progress on my two large leaf quilts when I got BADLY distracted. The culprit was the book Serendipity, by Susan Carlson. In it she explains her fabric collage techniques. In many ways they’re the same as my own, but with a much higher level of tiny details. It was all SO…
I’m getting really excited about some upcoming classes which I’ll be teaching LIVE via Zoom! That’s right: each of the students will be at their computer and I’ll be at mine, but we’ll be able to easily interact and see what each is doing. I’ve got my laptop, iPad, and studio lights well trained so…
My recent dye session was devoted almost exclusively to improving ugly prints. That generally meant over dying with a solid color, or stenciling on a new one. Take this little piece, for instance. It was originally an ugly yellow-green that I didn’t think I’d use. But, I knew that if I mostly obscured that color,…
After many distractions, I finally got back to working on my Red Bud quilt. I decided to name it “Spring Forth,” because I was captivated by the way the Red Bud blossoms pop right up out of the trunks. I got lucky with the background fabrics. Many of them had colorful dots which worked…
Really nice! I love the green fabric you dyed.
Thanks, Kristin! I like that fabric, too. The green covers an earlier dud, but it taught me the value of having something interesting as that first under layer, rather than solid white.