ENCORE: Pretty Painted Pumpkins
Just in time for Thanksgiving, I thought you’d enjoy seeing last year’s post about painted pumpkins, once again.
Here’s the teaser image:

Find the full post (on my old blog) here. Enjoy!
Ellen Lindner
Just in time for Thanksgiving, I thought you’d enjoy seeing last year’s post about painted pumpkins, once again.
Here’s the teaser image:

Find the full post (on my old blog) here. Enjoy!
Ellen Lindner
I thought you might like to see a little bit of my studio (which I did NOT clean up for your visit.) This is my secondary design wall. I seldom use it for creating. Instead, it holds other things that need my attention, like these quilts waiting to be sprayed with UV protectant and photographed….
I dyed this fabric last year and it’s one of my favorites. I was really happy with the way I had a viable design without doing anything more to it, but HOW do you design with that? I had a false start last year and am now trying again. These are the collection of “featured”…
There’s a wonderful art quilt exhibit opening in Stuart, FL this week. It’s called Stitched: Embracing the Quilt as Fine Art and I have two pieces in it. Actually, I’ve seen images of all the exhibit pieces (45 of them,) so I know how great it will be. The exhibit opens on the 20th, with a reception on…
As I mentioned in an earlier post, a specialty fabric or two can be the primary inspiration for an entire quilt. And that’s what I wanted to try. This is sort of what I had in mind. I had intentionally dyed some large scale fabrics in order to try my hand at this. Plus, I…
There were some really great quilts at the World Quilt – FL show last week. My favorite kind of quilts are those that grab your attention from across the room and draw you closer, and then when you get up close you’re amazed by the details of the piece. For me, there were several in…
As I was winding down on my recent dye session, I tried a very random exercise. I loosely pleated a piece of fabric and scraped on a variety of different colors, as well as some clear paste. It was a gooey mess when I finished! But, when I washed it out I found out that…