My latest quilt, Miscommunication, is now complete.
I especially love the dynamic line in this piece! And it think the design matches the concept and title very well. Hooray!
See full details and learn how to audition this piece in your home.
Ellen Lindner
A lot has happened with my coastal piece since I last posted about it. I’ve now added the bulk of the bottom/foreground section. At about this time I began to question how much I really needed to add on the right. After some consideration, I ended up deleting the far right column. This is the…
My dyeing/print making class with Pat Pauly was amazing. She’s SO comfortable with thickened dyes and what she can do with them that it was almost hard to keep up. This was the first demo, about using stencils. She doesn’t use them with a screen, but just hangs on to a corner and scrapes dye…
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…
One thing I’ve learned while blogging about my dyeing adventures is how to correctly spell the word. 🙂 Thanks to all you readers who pointed out the need for a letter E in the word dyeing. I think I’ve got it now. And I hope you’ll excuse my misspelled pun in the title. 34 fabrics,…
“Textile Trends,” and exhibit in Melbourne, FL is winding down in the next few days. (The last day is the 27th.) It was the first time Fifth Avenue Art Gallery has had an all-textile call for art, and the resulting show was pretty impressive. This large weaving was made by Lois Mittleman. She found LOTS…
My latest quilt has been coming together nicely, even though the fabrics are a little bit diverse. The colors, patterns, and values of the fabrics have dictated what looks good where and the fabric sizes have determined what will actually fit where. Things evolved on the design wall as I folded and auditioned fabrics in…
Really nice! I love the green fabric you dyed.
Thanks, Kristin! I like that fabric, too. The green covers an earlier dud, but it taught me the value of having something interesting as that first under layer, rather than solid white.