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Ellen Lindner
Please use this image with my compliments. See the July 8, 2016 post for some ideas about what to do with it.

Ellen Lindner
Woohoo! My quit, Coastal Overlook, took first place in a local art show! I’m delighted. It’s always nice to win an award but it’s even better when it includes exposing art enthusiasts to quilts as art. Yes! The show is the Titusville Art League’s Spring Show and I won in the mixed media category. The show is free…
When quilting my latest piece I decided to mimic the swirls/curves in the background. In addition to machine quilting, I also added some hand stitching around several of the curved shapes. My main reason for doing so was to add contrast to the white curves in the light areas. I intended to stitch around all the…
Update: the title of this lecture was later changed to “Confessions of a Fabric Whisperer.” That’s the title of my newest lecture and I’m very excited about it! If you’ve been reading my blog for a awhile, you know that I DO exhibit some odd behaviors. Things like cutting up quilts and putting them back…
My friend, Marilyn, taught our fiber art group how to make fabric books. Hers were lovely, with pale pages, lots of embellishments, and amazing contents. I had just whacked off a good bit of an already quilted quilt and thought that piece would make a good start for the cover. This is what it looked…
I’ve been having so much fun working on this improvisational quilt. (See the previous two posts for more in-progress photos and explanations.) After LOTS of piecing, slicing, and repiecing, I finally thought the quilt sections had enough energy and excitement to start thinking about how to put them together. First, I looked for sections with…
My final post about all the great art we saw in St. Petersburg, FL. My photos won’t BEGIN to do this one justice! St. Pete has an outdoor fiber installation by sculptor Janet Echelman. It’s called Bending Arc and it’s made up of huge shapes of knotted twine. The photo above shows about half of it….