Ellen Lindner: Art & Creativity

My small art quilt group, the Dirty Dozen Fiber Artists, issued a challenge in which the proportions of the resulting pieces must be tall and skinny (at least a 4:1 ratio.)  I made my challenge piece and found that I really liked this proportion.  I began to have many ideas about fitting things into this format, and sketched quite a few options.

I decided to make several of these quilts, keeping them very close to the respective sketches.  My idea is that the final collection of six or so will show an interesting progession of ideas.  I’m doing them in silk dupioni, which has a lovely luster.  I’ll use the same five fabrics, but in different ways on each.

I can’t show you the first piece, since it’s under wraps until Septembmer.  However, you can see a sneak peek here.

Here’s the sketch for the second quilt (on the left.)  Click any image for a larger view.

And here’s the finished quilt, only 9″ x 36″.
(I still need a decent photo of this one.)

I need a name for the series.  Maybe Synthesis, or Synergy.

Ellen Lindner