ENCORE: Pretty Painted Pumpkins
Just in time for Thanksgiving, I thought you’d enjoy seeing last year’s post about painted pumpkins, once again.
Here’s the teaser image:

Find the full post (on my old blog) here. Enjoy!
Ellen Lindner
Just in time for Thanksgiving, I thought you’d enjoy seeing last year’s post about painted pumpkins, once again.
Here’s the teaser image:

Find the full post (on my old blog) here. Enjoy!
Ellen Lindner
Have you done any abstract work? I have and I often find it difficult to come up with the original design. One exercise that’s been floating around via Pat Pauly and others it to randomly cover an index card with fabric scraps and let that become your design. So I tried a few. Some of…
After dyeing ALL THOSE FABRICS I was really anxious to cut into them. Of course, I started with one of my favorite fabrics and selected additional fabrics to go with it. Click any image for a larger view The part outlined in purple, above, is all one piece of fabric: one of my favorites. It’s…
I got to spend some time at the AQS show in Daytona Beach last month. I thought you’d enjoy seeing a few of the quilts. A detail shot: There was a nice exhibit of quilts made by Melissa Sobotka, Cynthia England does beautiful work, as these photos show. Look at all those seams! More photos…
You know how some quilts go together almost effortlessly and others make you really work for it? Before Christmas I had a quilt that fell into the struggle category. As a matter of fact, I put it away for a while. Needing and “emotional cleanser” type of quilt, I decided to make an improvisationally pieced…
I quilted my latest quilt and was pretty happy with it. But, as I studied it, one spot bugged me. I thought this spot was too busy and that a solid piece of fabric would look better. Should I applique a different fabric over the current one? Maybe something brown or purple? As I auditioned…
Now that I’ve started using those new stencils I can show you my results. I started out by over dyeing some of the duds from my previous dyeing session. Like this one. Not horrible, but definitely not exciting either. I simply over dyed it with the same stencil and roughly the same colors. As you…