Beading with Glue
Have you ever wished there was a faster way to add beads to your wall quilt? There is: glue! Check out the tutorial in the Learn with Ellen section. Ellen Lindner P.S. There are a bunch of other tutorials in my Articles section.
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A LITTLE Fun
I decided to make a tiny quilt for a fund raising event for SAQA, (Studio Art Quilt Associates.) Since it only needed to be 6″ x 8″ I just pulled out some small fused scraps and had fun creating a quick composition. (I started with a brightly colored landscape idea, but quickly took a detour.)…
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“Initial Response” Complete
My latest quilt, Initial Response, is now complete. Find more information here. I’m REALLY happy with this quilt! Especially the color scheme, which was new to me. And, it went together easily, since I let the initial hand dyed fabric (center) give me lots of cues. I selected the name, Initial Response, mostly because I liked the…
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Colorful Dying Results
In addition to the gorgeous indigo, my fabrics dyed with Procion mx dyes also turned out well. I didn’t have time to thoroughly wash them at first, so I draped them around my back porch for drying. So pretty! Believe it or not, these fabrics were made by simply wadding and scrunching up a piece…
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Indigo Results!
Wow! Wait till you see these fabulous results from our dying day. We began to get an idea of what lay ahead as Gabriele unfolded her pieces and hung them up. Aren’t these awesome? Gabriele used colored fabric for some of her dying, like the yellow and blue one below. And check this one out!…
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It Was a Good Day to Dye
Are you a Star Trek fan? Do you know about Klingons? They’re a very fierce fighting clan who’s motto is “It is a good day to die.” So, when I headed out the door to a recent dye session my husband pronounced it as “a good day to dye.” And indeed, it was. The weather…
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Two Steps Back
Well, I just wasn’t happy with the in-progress quilt I showed you last time. It seemed a little static. I tried to analyze what needed to change and I referenced my original black and white sketch. Wait a second. It was different from the working sketch I’d been using: At some point I had switched…
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Three Steps Forward
After completing the background of my abstract quilt, I was ready to tackle the primary motif. I used my sketch as the idea. Next, I had to choose colors. I thought some red might be dynamic. I used photo editing software to audition several different color options. I wanted to play up the red (above)…
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Taking Inspiration from the Starting Fabric
As I worked on the abstract quilt, I continued to take clues and inspiration from the original fabric. Since it was very angular, I wanted my pattern to be the same. Can you see how the shapes and lines of the side fabrics are extensions of the central fabric lines? Same for the quilting. First,…
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It all Started with Beautiful Fabric
Back in July I bought this beautiful painted piece of fabric from Pat Pauly. Isn’t it gorgeous? I knew it could be the start of something wonderful. The only problem is that the scale of this fabric is much larger than I normally use. Which meant that I didn’t have other similarly scaled fabrics to…
