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"Floral Canopy"
Thread Magic Garden is definitely hitting my “must-have” list! The author, Ellen Anne Eddy, has put together over 20 floral studies that show you how to break down different flowers into simple shapes for creating appliqué elements. She has tons of great tips for color, composition, stitching and embellishing. Her thread painting is so beautiful—I’ve never done any thread painting before, but I’m starting to feel inspired to try! Click here to see more quilts featured in her book, and click here to grab the code for our blog badge that features this cute red-lipped froggy.
Here’s what Ellen has to say about how she became interested in making her floral fantasies…
There’s something about a garden. It’s our first idea of paradise, our Eden, our place of rest and recuperation. Almost all gardens are framed by their flowers. They adorn the memories of loves lost and found. Our lives are a construction of flowers given and taken, of gardens kept, visited, walked, picked, and left to bloom and fade.
My earliest garden memory is trading my childhood fistful of dandelions to my neighbor for a bouquet of moss roses. I adored their bright oranges and fuchsias. We picked flowers for neighbors on May Day. On my birthday, lilacs were my gift from the yard. We celebrated July 4th with the daylily my father brought from his mother’s house. Years later, after living so long in apartments, I realized that I had forgotten what it was like to have flowers and to measure time by flowers bloomed and spent.
So it took me by surprise to learn that when I’d bought a house, I’d also bought a garden. I was uncontrollable. I had to make this strange place my own. I filled in one patch after another, covering every stray inch with blooms, flowering shrubs, and weeping trees. Then fall came and I could barely look at the strange, dead, brown land. So I went into my studio and began my own garden in sheers and hand-dyed fabrics.
Now I tend both my inner and outer gardens, and I watch myself bloom with my blossoms. The seasons within the studio are jumbled, but the growing conditions are just right!
Now for the giveaway! One lucky person will win a copy of Thread Magic Garden.
To enter, leave a comment on this post telling us about your favorite material or technique to use in art quilting…or if this is all new to you and you’re excited to try!
For an additional entry, log in to your Amazon account and “like” this book, then come back here to leave a second comment saying you did so.
Deadline to enter is Sunday, February 19, 2012. One comment will be drawn at random to win…the winner will be contacted via email and posted here on the blog next week. Good luck!
Congrats to Kelly, who won a copy of Shadow Trapunto Quilts from last week’s giveaway post.
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