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!
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Ellen Lindner
I was running low on a favorite hand dyed fabric when I decided to make a quilt with it. It’s the navy and yellow grid shown below, indicated by the largest arrow. I pulled every other hand dyed fabric that would go with it and this is the selection, shown above. Smaller arrows indicated two…
As I started a new quilt, I looked to my hand dyed fabrics for inspiration. I pulled out a few that I thought might spark some interest. Uh, no. It all seemed pretty ugly. But, I was intrigued by the large scale black and white piece. Could I work with something like that? It was…
I once had a shopper ask me “How much do you charge for one of those place mats?” Quch! Not what I wanted to hear, but I get it. To viewers who are not used to seeing art made from fabric the small pieces can look somewhat utilitarian. To avoid that, I often mount or…
I’m having a little glitch with my blog posts. As I try to sort that out I’ll be posting some tests. To compensate you for putting up with them I’ll include some eye candy with each one. Here’s an early art quilt from 2001, called Hopes and Daydreams. Although it looks like I did complicated curved…
After making about 15 improvisationally pieced units/blocks, it was time to figure out hot to best arrange them. In the past, I just put them all together and was happy with the result. So, I tried that first. Sure enough, it was lively and energetic. But, I wondered if the energy was TOO over the top….
The thing about using fabric dyes is that they’re translucent. They give beautiful results, but it’s impossible to add light colors at the end. For that paint is needed. So, I decided to use some fabric paint and see if I could improve a couple of dyed fabrics. This was my starting point: I decided…
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.