Thankful to be Free!
How blessed I am to live in a country with freedom and democracy!


Happy Independence Day to all US citizens!
Ellen Lindner
P.S. These tiny quilts are from my “Notes for a Friend” series.
How blessed I am to live in a country with freedom and democracy!


Happy Independence Day to all US citizens!
Ellen Lindner
P.S. These tiny quilts are from my “Notes for a Friend” series.
Who says Florida doesn’t have seasons? We have hurricane season, don’t we? One year ago, Hurricane Irma had just skirted Florida on its way northward. Due to the power of the storm and the projected path, the governor of Florida issued an order for mandatory coastal evacuations, and urged people in many other areas to…
After working in black and white to create sketches, it was time to make them up in fabric. (Fabric with color!) This is the palette I selected. My usual favorites. These are my first four. I used my favorite 2 sketches, plus mini-crops from them. Rosalie’s idea was for us to create multiple units and then…
The prize winners at the Daytona Beach AQS quilt show were quite wonderful. These are some of my favorites. Claudia Pfeil’s Fern Rising won Best of Show and it was very well deserved. The shadows added to the fern shapes made it look extremely 3D. Plus, the use of sheer fabrics (for the spirals) and an…
Woohoo! My website and blog are finally revamped! You’ll notice the new look, but one of the coolest features is almost invisible: the pages are “responsive.” That means they know what size device they’re being read on and they automatically modify themselves accordingly. It’s way more than just shrinking the content. The software actually rearranges…
You remember the leaf quilt I made, right? Well, it has a companion piece which I recently finished. Here it is, underway, as I was auditioning fabrics. You can see I placed the red squiggles of my feature fabric on a “sweet spot” and built everything around that. Of course, the fabrics changed a good…
Woohoo, the background of my current quilt is finally complete! Composed and glued and ready for stitching, (but without the green hexie in the center of the photo.) In the photo above, I was considering adding some hexies to the background. Just because I’ve been making a lot of them and to give a nod…
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