Gee, I haven’t shown you a new quilt in a while. But, in the midst of teaching, exhibits, and TV shows, I’ve still been able to (intermittently) work on my latest abstract quilt. When I last showed it to you, the background was complete and I had decided to add some white squares. I auditioned…
Well, I don’t like the taste of tomatoes, but I sure do like the way they look in a quilt. Here’s Vine Ripened, complete. Some detail shots: This was a fun quilt to make. I think it would look great in a dining room. Purchase information on my website. Ellen Lindner
After placing my three tomatoes on a grey background it was time to quilt everything. I knew I wanted to use contour stitching, so I pulled out my inspiration photos for reference. I drew contour lines with a pencil first, directly onto each photo. Once I was happy with them, I went over them with a Sharpie….
Are you getting tired of seeing my tomatoes? Don’t worry: this is the last one. This tomato, on the right, is only a partial one. Still, I’ll need to build a little extra to allow for positioning and trimming. This time I started with the lightest spots. A detail of that, with many little pieces…
I’ve been a little tomato crazy lately. I’m working on a new piece which needs three tomatoes. I’m making them as stand-alone units, to be later added to a background. Number one is complete. Here’s number two underway. Once again, I’m constructing the tomato on a muslin base, lightly gluing fabrics into place as I go….
You remember the leaf quilt I made, right? Well, it has a companion piece which I recently finished. Here it is, underway, as I was auditioning fabrics. You can see I placed the red squiggles of my feature fabric on a “sweet spot” and built everything around that. Of course, the fabrics changed a good…
I was making good progress on my two large leaf quilts when I got BADLY distracted. The culprit was the book Serendipity, by Susan Carlson. In it she explains her fabric collage techniques. In many ways they’re the same as my own, but with a much higher level of tiny details. It was all SO…
After getting started on two big leaf quilts, things went pretty smoothly. (The photos in this post show the left quilt.) Having previously drawn the design on a large piece of muslin, I auditioned which green to use where. Can you believe I had to buy MORE fabric? Very unexpected. Here’s the final arrangement of…
After studying my quirky fabrics, I decided to work with the yellow-green silk that had been screen printed. I knew I wanted to play up the red design with more red accents. Then, I threw in blue and yellow for good measure. After just a little arranging I remembered, “Oh yeah, I’m not really good…