My flame vine quilt is now complete. I’ve named it Back Yard Beauty.
I’m quite happy with it. Here’s a detail shot.
You can see more about how I made it in the previous posts.
On to the next quilt, a red bud tree!
Ellen Lindner
Did you notice anything different about my newsletter and blog? Both have new headers, each with a new head shot. Yippee! (It was WAY overdue.) I had the photo taken by Bonnie McCaffery, while in Houston. She took about 100 and I picked this one, (even though I wasn’t sold on the background.) So, I…
As usual, my current quilt started with a high contrast piece of hand dyed fabric. This is all I had of it. What could I do to best show it off? The additional fabrics added above provided interest, but the original fabric swatch still seemed rather straight forward. It was kinda hard to judge against…
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Well, now I’ve done it. I’ve dipped my toes into learning more about abstract design and have become – what is it the Borg say? – ASSIMILATED! At least for now. I “blame” Jane Davies. She wrote an excellent book, which got me going. It’s called “Abstract Painting, The Elements of Visual Language.” It was…