I recently taught “Floral Improv” in Bradenton, FL. With only five students in the class, everyone got lots of attention and made good progress. Mary was able to complete all of her quilting in class. Check out her fabulous results, in-progress below. See how much the quilting adds to it, below? Carol used her own…
My latest quilt, Rhythm of the City, is now complete. It’s made almost entirely with fabrics I dyed myself. I’m very happy with both the fabrics and the composition. I added additional pattern and interest with couched heavy black thread. I think it adds a lot. More information about this quilt Audition this quilt in your home…
Still testing one of my blog features. Here’s a little eye candy in appreciation for putting up with this. This is Carefree, on of my favorite pieces. It features my son and two of his cousins skipping down my parents’ farm road. Click for a larger image Ellen Lindner
After playing around with my dyed fabrics and potential compositions I felt more confident in moving forward. I decided the fabric pieces needed to be something other than parallel. Maybe tilted like this. My first (Round B) arrangement. I liked the tilting, but once again, I had the same problem: this piece was too busy. …
After dyeing ALL THOSE FABRICS I was really anxious to cut into them. Of course, I started with one of my favorite fabrics and selected additional fabrics to go with it. Click any image for a larger view The part outlined in purple, above, is all one piece of fabric: one of my favorites. It’s…
Now THIS is fun! Scoop up some thickened dye with a stiff squeegee (think large credit card,) and smear it onto some fabric. It spreads into glorious color and makes a very satisfying swishing noise at the same time. I started with yellow and then added yellow-orange,(which looks dark orange when it’s this thick.) But,…
You can’t get it right all the time. And knowing that relieves a certain amount of any perfectionist tendencies. I fully embrace the unexpected “mistakes.” Like this one. This was created with a special type of interfacing stencil. It’s shown wet here, which means it’s darker than it will be after washing. BUT. If you…
After over dyeing fabrics from previous sessions, my ordered fabric arrived and I jumped at the opportunity to make some “new fabric.” That is, starting with plain white fabric. I had plans and was excited to implement them! This one was meant to go with a favorite fabric. Therefore, I repeated the pattern and some of…
I’ve had some good results with my fabric dyeing. I was going to show you the “regular” stuff and save my favorites for last. But who has such restraint? So here they are: my favorite fabrics from my recent bout of dyeing. For the large piece on the left below, my goal was to use…
Now that I’ve started using those new stencils I can show you my results. I started out by over dyeing some of the duds from my previous dyeing session. Like this one. Not horrible, but definitely not exciting either. I simply over dyed it with the same stencil and roughly the same colors. As you…