I had SO MUCH FUN using my hand dyed fabrics in this recent quilt! I’m calling it Palm Fronds, and I really like it. It’s 36″ x 24″.
About one third of the fabrics used are ones I dyed. So exciting!
I like this quilt so much I think I might do another couple to make a series. And I’m busy planning my next round of dyeing.
Ellen Lindner
After playing around with my dyed fabrics and potential compositions I felt more confident in moving forward. I decided the fabric pieces needed to be something other than parallel. Maybe tilted like this. My first (Round B) arrangement. I liked the tilting, but once again, I had the same problem: this piece was too busy. …
Back in October, I wrote about creating torn paper collages in order to loosen up and to work more abstractly. Like this: Original photo Torn paper collage Because the paper is torn, you can’t be too accurate, so you HAVE to focus on the largest shapes. The fabric interpretation, Ti Party. One of my readers, Suzanne…
Finished! I’m very happy with it. See size and pricing info. Have you ever abstracted something like this? I like the effect. What do you think? Ellen Lindner
I sure do have fun dying and printing fabric! As you can see, I make no attempt at keeping my clothing clean. (Usually around this point my stomach begins to look quite colorful, as well.) It all starts by soaking my fabrics in a soda ash solution. Once they’re line dried they’re ready to react…
After completing A Little Bit Tart, I had a nice collection of very interesting – and already pieced – scraps. Of course, I had to do something with them! See what I mean? I decided I could add a lot of blue as the primary color and get an interesting result. I auditioned additional blue fabrics. Then…
As I worked on my two-colored “beet” quilt, it became obvious that composition was going to be SUPER important in creating a successful piece. Because the yellow showed up so sharply against the reds and purples I knew the yellow circles would form the focal point of the piece and they’d need to be arranged…
Beautiful, Ellen!
Thanks, Kristin!