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Ellen Lindner
Please use this image with my compliments. See the July 8, 2016 post for some ideas about what to do with it.

Ellen Lindner
After selling one of the samples for my Floral Improv class, I needed to make another one. No problem. It was fun and went together quickly. Here’s Cheerful Garden. Perhaps you can tell the background is composed of three different fabrics. That’s because I didn’t have one piece of fabric large enough for the 13 x 16…
I’m very excited to have a solo show coming up soon, in Bedford, VA! It’s been A LOT of work to prep, pack, and ship the 31 pieces that will be on display. And somehow things always take longer than I expect. Still, a GOOD reason to be busy! I’ve recently changed my hanging sleeve…
We’re very lucky to have the Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts right here in Melbourne, FL. This is a state of the art facility which brings in extraordinary textile exhibits all throughout the year. Every summer they host an art quilt exhibit. Right now they have two: Radical Elements and A View Within. Radical Elements is a…
Teaching classes is so much fun! Add to that the satisfaction students get from mastering something new and it’s one big Adrenalin surge for all of us. This was the case when I recently taught “Double Reverse Applique” in Palm Harbor, FL. With Double Reverse Applique (DRA) the pattern is stitched from the back and…
I was excited to work with the red and blue-green fabric I had recently died. I pulled out all my other dyed fabrics in those colors and began to explore my options. This was the starting fabric. As you can see above, it was missing a chunk on the bottom right corner. So I evened…
Slowly, over the course of a couple of months, I began to notice the same group of colors. First, was a Croton plant. What pretty oranges and greens! Then, I noticed the mess on my table, which had the same colors. I decided to work with green, yellow-green, and orange. I pulled out all the…