Like very accurate portraits.
March Journal: Ellen, by Ellen Lindner
The portrait above was the FIRST thing I ever did with this technique! That’s how easy it is.
Now, I have an eBook about this technique, which uses this awesome apple to teach you the concepts.
My students and readers have had really good results with this technique. See what I mean:
The download is only $9.95. Find full details here.
Enjoy,
Ellen Lindner
My latest quilt, Poppies Ablaze, is now complete. I’m very happy with it, plus I had a lot of fun working on it! This very close detail shot shows the double black outline stitching which I love to use. This piece is the newest sample for my class “Design Your Own Nature Quilt.” (This class is…
My friend, Marilyn, taught our fiber art group how to make fabric books. Hers were lovely, with pale pages, lots of embellishments, and amazing contents. I had just whacked off a good bit of an already quilted quilt and thought that piece would make a good start for the cover. This is what it looked…
I finally got around to photographing In the Moment. It’s the first quilt in which I used improvisational piecing, and it was so much fun! And here’s a detail shot. It was very exhilarating to piece curves, slice them, shift them, insert skinny lines, and then piece all the units together. I’ll definitely be using this…
A little more eye candy for you from the AQS Daytona show. This is Petals in the Wind by Cassandra Ireland Beaver. (Sorry for the fuzzy phone photo.) There is no black in this quilt. The black you see are holes which show the black curtain behind. Wouldn’t this be pretty against a pale wall,…
For our second self-portrait challenge, the Dirty Dozen Fiber Artists made quilts in the style of their favorite artists. These included abstract, pop, impressionist, and whimsical styles, to name a few. These were made by Marilyn Seibring and Andrea Luliak. These were made by me, (Ellen Lindner,) Sandy Shenker, and Becky Stack. Jill Brown, Dij…
Most of my designs start with something visual. I’m inspired by a combination of colors, a particular photo, or the pattern of some fabric. I’m not particularly good at (or comfortable with) designing for a particular theme or idea. Yet that is exactly where I found myself a short time ago. I wanted to create…
