tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17772637249825225692024-03-13T03:35:02.574-05:00Ellen Anne Eddy's Thread Magic StudioThoughts, art, stories and ideas from Ellen Anne Eddy, Author of Thread Magic.Ellen Anne Eddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884881913053881049noreply@blogger.comBlogger153125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777263724982522569.post-66117638885731775152021-07-31T23:14:00.002-05:002021-07-31T23:14:56.118-05:00Musings: Art Outside the Box: Laughter for Drama Queens<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4hw9jIKMtg3cG06pNEiqdNcjXnmvzqo0Jz4r81onz6KTePMS_6gbPAfVkgw5GtdoE0FK0Lz0fGe4Ele0l9Ra4cO3dQeiQqBKHOUNbfu_y8_pmDmv0p7N7odwGsyjGT595yqR-Q4JGyeg/s1600/277+The+Orchid+Olympics.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4hw9jIKMtg3cG06pNEiqdNcjXnmvzqo0Jz4r81onz6KTePMS_6gbPAfVkgw5GtdoE0FK0Lz0fGe4Ele0l9Ra4cO3dQeiQqBKHOUNbfu_y8_pmDmv0p7N7odwGsyjGT595yqR-Q4JGyeg/s1600/277+The+Orchid+Olympics.JPG" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I am a redirected Drama Queen, Daughter of a Drama Queen Delux. My mother was not a happy girl until she had a drama 10 feet high and too wide to get through the door. It was all about telling stories.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Now Margaret Eddy was the queen of all stories. And a serious fan of silly. She told amazing whoppers, one-liners, true tales spun into gold from straw, hopeless lies and astonishing steaming piles. She loved her drama. She had a somewhat loose relationship to truth. She was a devastating school teacher, because much of that could indeed come out in a teacher conference meeting or a family reunion. But she had a special gift for looking within and without. First she's build you a verbal image of herself as she felt about the story. But then she'd draw you into an outer view, where you could see her spinning in what she knew was a silly situation, build for howling laughter.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It happens to me in my quilts. I'm quilting along and I realize that this silly thing I've drafted is someone I know. Or worse, me. There with all my rather small fears and desires. I'm not overly deep. I'm just noisy. At that point, it seems just to the point to let it be silly. I am. It is. And the world is better for it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">This quilt, The Orchid Olympics, wasn't meant to be funny. It just happened. I'd found a great picture of a frog in an odd pose and worked with it. One afternoon in a class demo, I was placing it into the piece and trying to put a sun over his head. It wouldn't go. It just wouldn't go. Not over. Not to the side. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I looked again at the frog and thought, "If you get into that pose, it has to be for something like the Olympics. No one would willingly bend like that otherwise." The sun fell into her hand like an award and there we were.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Most of the time when we think of mixing colors, we think of two colors becoming one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">This tulip has ten colors in it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Why so many? Because real tulips have multiple streaks of red, orange and yellow. That large range of colors lets me shade from side to side, giving my flower real depth and detail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Flowers ARE color. It's what it's all about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">So this video touched me. It's about perception and reality. For all of her obvious concern when she sees the wolves, they scatter when she says "Git!" The wolves are not evil. They're just wolves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Bullies function on a wolf perception.Someone has to be perceived either as a wolf to be driven away or a wolf who will probably eat you. Like most binary systems, it has some serious limits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">It occurs to me that two things have to happen to create a wolf perception. We have to give someone a bad rap. We give ourselves reasons why they've done what they've done. Maybe it's true. Often enough, that's a fantasy too. We just convince ourselves of their bad action and intent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">And then we dress them as villains. Give them a bad wrap to wear: a black hat, a swirling evil cloak, an evil glint to their eye.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">It's not that I believe there is no evil in the world. It's there. Nor do I believe it my job to change people's choices. I wouldn't take someone's path away from them like that. If we don't walk our path as best we can, we won't learn from it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">But after years of dressing people in bad wraps and giving them bad raps and being dressed in the same, it occurs to me that they might just scatter if I said, "Git!" My perception is power I give or take, all by myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">You'll find people who want to dress up in funny black cloaks and be icky and people who want to dress you too in all kinds of odd places. I hope you can say "Git!" to them too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> See if you can find them! They're at </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> I was wandering around on the web today and found this great segment that AQS taped for me at the Des Moines Show this Fall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">This is a very nice tutorial for making flowers out of simple shapes. They taped this the last day of the show. I ran in and babbled like a brook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">But I found it and listened to it today. I didn't ummm. And it felt as good to listen to it as to do it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Build some cool flowers. For heaven's sake leave the patterns out. Build something wild, while you're under the gun. It is, after all, time honored.</span></div>Ellen Anne Eddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884881913053881049noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777263724982522569.post-70445085032807816122011-12-30T11:32:00.001-06:002011-12-30T11:39:19.354-06:00Thread Magic Garden Is Ready for Pre-order!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">You never really know what a project will take until you see it done. Perhaps that's good. A good dream well done should take your whole heart's effort and give you your heart back in return.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">When I started this book, I had no idea it would take 2 years to finish. Part of that is that I had to learn so much to do this book. Part of that is the meticulous process C</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">&</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">T puts into every book. I got my premier copy a week ago.I'm still scraping myself off the ceiling. It's past my expectations. I'm hoping you'll feel that way too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">When I started this book, I wanted to continue what I'd accomplished with Thread Magic. I wanted to show folk ways of adding wild free motion to quilts that set things hearts and imaginations on fire. I wanted to set up instructions that would take you through your own process with this. You'll have to let me know how I've done when you read the book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">But for those of you who've known me in class or in print, you know I don't give recipes for cakes that don't rise. I tell you everything I know. I also don't do anything really hard. I just do things that are time consuming and compulsive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I'm hoping I've done a good job of opening doors, traveling a new path, leaving good bread crumbs for anyone who wants to follow, and breaking the best rules I could find to break. See you on the trail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">After years of drawing bugs and frogs it has occurred to me that I'm a bit odd. All artists are, mostly. The ones who look normal pass well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I'm not that good an actress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I was at church for Christmas day. The choir at this church takes off for Christmas. I could have sat in the choir pews, but I ended up in the general congregation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I'm not an alto as a show off. It's simply where my range is. I can't sing the high notes reliably. It happens occasionally, but like Tuesday, anything could happen. So I was singing the alto line, against the bulk of the congregation on the melody.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">It's different within the choir. You expect to hear the part above and below you. The blend is planned and it's where you belong.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">This was much more separate, and more isolating. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">At the end of the service it occurred to me that much of my life is that way: a counterpoint to melodies I can not reach. My plans for the holiday collapsed and I ended up more alone than was comfortable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I was speaking afterwards to the choir director who said, "You know, you'll never be the donut. You're the sprinkles on the donut. And that's why we want the donut anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Now the nicest thing about the sprinkles on the donut is that they come in a range of color. They're practically an edible color chart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I don't get to eat donuts either, but I've learned to appreciate allergy foods as a visual experience. And I'm an edible color chart! There are worse fates and worse goals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Having fun being weird today? Thank an artist!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Lately, they've been playing the Wizard of Oz again. It occurred to me just how much of our language comes from that amazing movie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Most movies are a cultural moment at best. They expand on a moment in time. What is a classic changes with the wind, but I think we can say that it's about how it changes the way people think. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I was going through the number of phrases that the Wizard cemented into my verbal landscape</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Over the rainbow."</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">"And your little dog too."</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">"I hope my courage holds out. I hope your tail holds out."</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">"I'm melting."</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And of course,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Frank Baum, the author, had a rather unsuccessful life outside his books. He bounced from one thing to another until he wrote this odd and lovely tale, largely about politics. The politics have disappeared in time leaving a wonderful story about friendship, challenges, appreciating weird and very kind help, and finding your heart. Who would any of us be without it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">That being said, I take heart in this. When someone says, "You quilt, right? Can you make me a bed quilt? In beige?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Those of us doing our art shift the archetypes. Not purposely, or with cause, but simply by bringing our vision to the world. It's not something one picks and chooses. It's simply an act of trust to bring what your heart demands into being. We bring it all to the table and let time sort it out.</span><br />
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</div>Ellen Anne Eddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884881913053881049noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777263724982522569.post-9715209751855943952011-12-19T11:24:00.000-06:002011-12-19T11:24:08.435-06:00Silent Night: Waiting for Wonder<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I'm convinced this is a reaction to the dark of the year. I can't speak for any one else. It has an addictive edge to it I don't trust. When I try to strip myself down each year to the celebration of Christ's birth and basic kindness to the people in front of me, without the endorphin pump of extra shopping, sugar and alcohol, I find myself facing all kinds of edgy truths about myself. Much of what runs through your mind in the dark.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Not that I'm a stick about sugar and extra spending. They're just not good for me. There's an old saying, "Up like a rocket. Down like a stick.", which pretty much covers my mental health after any Christmas-New Years week. Since I don't have the family obligations, I can and often do choose to opt out of the commercial aspect. And anything that takes extra vacuuming, or must be put away unless it's up next spring. Ick.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I'm an escaped Catholic. I go to an Anglican Church largely because I love the rituals and can think what I like. They don't green the church (translate: put up the tree) until the Sunday before Christmas.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">It leaves time for waiting in the darkness. To push back against the darkness, and it's nastier little whispers and say, "The Light is coming." There's a value in saying that before the light arrives. It reminds us that good and bad, broken and whole what we need is there and right for us.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">That all said, I think I'm going to put up an origami bird tree. One I don't have to take down after the season. There's nothing wrong with lighting a candle in the dark.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">All of the best of the blest for you and yours for the holiday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> What color is a flower, actually?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">In spite of everything your kindergarten teacher told you, it's not a simple answer. If she made you color all your roses red, give me her name and I'll go have a little chat with her. Or better still, you might want to tell her that she can't live in your head anymore without paying rent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">That's not a white tulip. Nor is it really red or yellow. It's a wonderful swirl of a number of great colors. Leaving any of that out is a loss. But how do you do it in fiber?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">We have two great tools. Well, we probably have hundreds but these help with this.Hand dyed fabric has all those great streaks. It's a great way to start a flower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Machine embroidery also speeds us on our way.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The wonderful thing about stitching flowers is that thread really is minutia. We can slip in that dash of green, that edge of orange or purple that flowers either do have or should.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">When <a href="http://www.marklipinski.com/">Mark Lipinski</a> asked me how important color was on his show this week and why I put so much emphasis on it, I almost fell of my chair. Color IS the media. We see everything through the color and the texture. You can here that conversation on Mark's <a href="http://www.marklipinski.com/">Creative Mojo </a> show, December 14th.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I'm the Guest Blogger today at the </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Mark is one of my favorite creative quilting lunatics. He brings immense talent and a wacky sense of fun to us all.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Lauren doesn't look like a lunatic. She looks like a pink cheeked soccer mom. Look out! Stand back! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> No one actually cleaned much of anything in my childhood home. We lived in a pleasantly shabby small house carefully insulated by mountains of books. So once every five years or so, someone would put some effort into finding the floor and once found, vacuuming it. Of course that took in my case, huge quantities of ice cream. In my mother's case, similar quantities of gin. Either way we never faced it chemically unimpaired. It may explain why she thought it was funny to chase me around the room with it. It may also explain my complete dread of them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I was bemoaning the Eureka when Pat Winter told me she'd gotten a Bissell that pretty much ate babies for lunch for $44 at Walmart. Desperate with the image of my new godbaby wading through the crumbs, fur and crunchies, I bought one.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Here's how that translates into a quilt. The metallic threads soften the yellow a bit, but they still play against each other. And the sweep of darker and lighter purples to either side makes it a richer combination.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">African violets are a great complementary purple/yellow color scheme, enhanced with some analogous purples on the side. If they make your heart happy, see what happens when you put oranges with blues. The color wheel shows us the relationships of these colors. Similar relationships will have similar effects. It's a great way to stretch your palette.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">In the middle of that muddle, I'm trying very hard to realize that the best task is simplification. So with that in mind, I'm putting all my blogs into one place. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">All the blogs have been fed into this one. I'll still show you wonderful Lunatic Fringe people, color studies, funny stories, fabulous techniques and amazing embroidery. But, we're getting together. Right now.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I live in dread of distraction. So it is with serious fear that I face the holidays. I have a really low attention span, and I multitask unmercifully, but I know I will leave three out of five of those tasks in the dust. So when the holidays come, I know I really ought to find the floor. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">This is Tom and Sarah with munchkin. It's astonishing how something so small can hold your whole heart that tightly.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Keira is at seven months, a bright sunny soul who likes soft boiled eggs, bee bop music, and is working on toy tossing as an Olympic sport. We had visions of what she'd do when she found the dog bones so we at least had to clean that much up. After that it became the search for more suction in vacuum cleaner land.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The weirdest thing has happened to me. It was bad enough at the baby shower. I actually made a baby quilt. Since it's out of all my apron prints, it includes ghosts, tigers, hawks, spiders, and beetles. We thought we ought to start her early on those things.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I was really worried about having been distracted in this way and then it came to me. I won't really have to have someone pry the knitting needles out of my hands. They come in pairs and I'm bound to lose one sooner or later.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Either way, I've been given the ultimate delight of a tiny hand waving wet spoons and toys at me as I sing her bee bop. Pretty good for a maiden fairy godmother.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Keira lives in Austin with my God kids, Tom and Sarah, They better bring her back soon or, God knows what I'll knit.</span><br />
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It doesn't help when you're personally leading the riot.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8ILrnEUX3aDg0RSFTg5KFXwxE8ZQSj_H_q1akL-G9F9sKujkiScSAPhyphenhyphenBqKIfE3AZSIwlGGb_-48823cH7_grI3qH5k5trb_HeWDbQ800EklpCbmmdSZIYPpKnB8M9IeXIclwGUZlxgdG/s1600/793+Morning+Glories+w+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8ILrnEUX3aDg0RSFTg5KFXwxE8ZQSj_H_q1akL-G9F9sKujkiScSAPhyphenhyphenBqKIfE3AZSIwlGGb_-48823cH7_grI3qH5k5trb_HeWDbQ800EklpCbmmdSZIYPpKnB8M9IeXIclwGUZlxgdG/s320/793+Morning+Glories+w+%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">But your life finds a way. I worked in a fabric store and quilted insanely, until someone asked, "Could you teach a class on that?"</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Well, when teaching adults, it's ok to be leading the riot. It's kind of what they hired you for. They want excitement and new ideas and that roller coaster feeling of a whole new stash of toys they've never tried before. I'm exactly where I should be.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">But the decisions I make about class are almost in opposition to decisions about the studio.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAukNiCil39jfb5uqgThCZDi9qN6tKoZQSjtSxcuGIitFRfjDTHZoeocbvSyrRRzkqaBpdeYZBHL2XlwiCjNKDUkvvYf_GJA_OAfvN0hIn_9YGxS8I2K2a6mVPRFccHCABcuVvZvyknk6j/s1600/777+Ring+around+the+moon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAukNiCil39jfb5uqgThCZDi9qN6tKoZQSjtSxcuGIitFRfjDTHZoeocbvSyrRRzkqaBpdeYZBHL2XlwiCjNKDUkvvYf_GJA_OAfvN0hIn_9YGxS8I2K2a6mVPRFccHCABcuVvZvyknk6j/s320/777+Ring+around+the+moon.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">When it comes to materials, I believe that more is more. More colors please. More resources. More options. Certainly more choices. So when I've taught, I want that for students too. So how much and what do you pack? I used to bring whole bolts of stabilizers, fusibles and piles of books for design.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Strangely enough, it comes down to weight. The new luggage fees have changed that world and I have to think like a teacher, not like an artist. It's very strange to pack what I'm sure you'll need. And to leave the things that you might want back at the studio.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">So I am proud/sad/confused/and conflicted to announce for the first time in my life I'm kitting classes. I'm still bringing fabulous fabrics I personally dye, hand-dyed threads you can't get anywhere else, hand-dyed cheesecloth and a collection of the most beautiful commercial threads I can find. But I'm kitting up the stabilizers/fusibles/and patterns to make your life easier the day before class. I'm also producing small classroom books for project classes that cover the material, give you pattern, how to illustrations, tips, sources and gallery photos all in one one pretty little booklet. Simplification really is a math project.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">This is my first year to do that.You as students and fellow artists will have to let me know how that works for you.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The downside is that you can't always be sure what that kit will cost. Your group will ask me for a cost for that perhaps a year before class, usually when they book the class. Prices can raise dramatically in a year, and I've usually sliced it down to give students the best break I can. So if shipping or the price spikes, I have no choice but to adjust the kit fee. What I've told students is that if the extra means you eat peanut butter for a week, I'll offer you a dispensation. I can absorb the extra for one or two, but for twenty it becomes a problem.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Like all works in process, I'm trying to figure this out. So as students and artist, what do you prefer? Do you want to strictly find and bring your own supplies? Do you prefer a kit? and can you handle a small price adjustment if it's needed?</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">This little dragonfly was started in my Dragonfly Sky class, a class built and streamlined with kits, a set pattern, and a booklet to help people on their way. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx0FH4i2gTp1REhwi10s9SG_AzuhGyNNFOFOSNzFTVr4WpvTPUjesPCf47Dwg5XGV2lsvjNoegNVhyCOeJLa4XiLY2mQoD6Tiy9wYziKeOVfJtrC1D-TQFP4wasYSaclMxBS2GhfLG3ChW/s1600/dragonfly_sky_cover+frontf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx0FH4i2gTp1REhwi10s9SG_AzuhGyNNFOFOSNzFTVr4WpvTPUjesPCf47Dwg5XGV2lsvjNoegNVhyCOeJLa4XiLY2mQoD6Tiy9wYziKeOVfJtrC1D-TQFP4wasYSaclMxBS2GhfLG3ChW/s200/dragonfly_sky_cover+frontf.jpg" width="113" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The booklet is available separately at</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">www.ellenanneeddy.com</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.ellenanneeddy.com/store-detail.php?cat=1&ID=4">Dragonfly Sky</a></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">or at<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dragonfly-Sky-Ellen-Anne-Eddy/dp/0982290128/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322324207&sr=8-1"> Amazon </a></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">If you order from Ellen you get your book personally signed.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Or you can ask your guild to bring Ellen to teach you to make your own dragonfly sky. Ellen's <a href="http://www.ellenanneeddy.com/classes.php">Teaching information </a></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>Ellen Anne Eddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884881913053881049noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777263724982522569.post-15960348551970517362011-11-26T09:46:00.000-06:002011-12-02T14:07:14.814-06:00To Kit or Not to Kit: A Teacher's Dilemma<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0sQIfuDO2yyT5VIqTcU2iXcB46DIcqgHXNH02WulJSBmNlBHziYgvRHIrs-T-2zKlMakWQpn36fCFn9lkHbu87TPD8fgwzfsgM-AmVV_f-UL5h73vn0vLnPO5W_Jwh6JwSgfKtZ4CYzW/s1600/843+Spring+Crescent.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0sQIfuDO2yyT5VIqTcU2iXcB46DIcqgHXNH02WulJSBmNlBHziYgvRHIrs-T-2zKlMakWQpn36fCFn9lkHbu87TPD8fgwzfsgM-AmVV_f-UL5h73vn0vLnPO5W_Jwh6JwSgfKtZ4CYzW/s640/843+Spring+Crescent.jpg" width="369" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The decisions we make as artists are so different than the decisions we make as teachers.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I came out in the seventies with a primary degree, ready to teach first grade. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">It was after several breathtakingly bad years substituting when I finally got a job, only to find I was really bad at crowd control. It doesn't help when you're personally leading the riot.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8ILrnEUX3aDg0RSFTg5KFXwxE8ZQSj_H_q1akL-G9F9sKujkiScSAPhyphenhyphenBqKIfE3AZSIwlGGb_-48823cH7_grI3qH5k5trb_HeWDbQ800EklpCbmmdSZIYPpKnB8M9IeXIclwGUZlxgdG/s1600/793+Morning+Glories+w+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8ILrnEUX3aDg0RSFTg5KFXwxE8ZQSj_H_q1akL-G9F9sKujkiScSAPhyphenhyphenBqKIfE3AZSIwlGGb_-48823cH7_grI3qH5k5trb_HeWDbQ800EklpCbmmdSZIYPpKnB8M9IeXIclwGUZlxgdG/s320/793+Morning+Glories+w+%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">But your life finds a way. I worked in a fabric store and quilted insanely, until someone asked, "Could you teach a class on that?"</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Well, when teaching adults, it's ok to be leading the riot. It's kind of what they hired you for. They want excitement and new ideas and that roller coaster feeling of a whole new stash of toys they've never tried before. I'm exactly where I should be.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">But the decisions I make about class are almost in opposition to decisions about the studio.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAukNiCil39jfb5uqgThCZDi9qN6tKoZQSjtSxcuGIitFRfjDTHZoeocbvSyrRRzkqaBpdeYZBHL2XlwiCjNKDUkvvYf_GJA_OAfvN0hIn_9YGxS8I2K2a6mVPRFccHCABcuVvZvyknk6j/s1600/777+Ring+around+the+moon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAukNiCil39jfb5uqgThCZDi9qN6tKoZQSjtSxcuGIitFRfjDTHZoeocbvSyrRRzkqaBpdeYZBHL2XlwiCjNKDUkvvYf_GJA_OAfvN0hIn_9YGxS8I2K2a6mVPRFccHCABcuVvZvyknk6j/s320/777+Ring+around+the+moon.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">When it comes to materials, I believe that more is more. More colors please. More resources. More options. Certainly more choices. So when I've taught, I want that for students too. So how much and what do you pack? I used to bring whole bolts of stabilizers, fusibles and piles of books for design.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Strangely enough, it comes down to weight. The new luggage fees have changed that world and I have to think like a teacher, not like an artist. It's very strange to pack what I'm sure you'll need. And to leave the things that you might want back at the studio.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">So I am proud/sad/confused/and conflicted to announce for the first time in my life I'm kitting classes. I'm still bringing fabulous fabrics I personally dye, hand-dyed threads you can't get anywhere else, hand-dyed cheesecloth and a collection of the most beautiful commercial threads I can find. But I'm kitting up the stabilizers/fusibles/and patterns to make your life easier the day before class. I'm also producing small classroom books for project classes that cover the material, give you pattern, how to illustrations, tips, sources and gallery photos all in one one pretty little booklet. Simplification really is a math project.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">This is my first year to do that.You as students and fellow artists will have to let me know how that works for you.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The downside is that you can't always be sure what that kit will cost. Your group will ask me for a cost for that perhaps a year before class, usually when they book the class. Prices can raise dramatically in a year, and I've usually sliced it down to give students the best break I can. So if shipping or the price spikes, I have no choice but to adjust the kit fee. What I've told students is that if the extra means you eat peanut butter for a week, I'll offer you a dispensation. I can absorb the extra for one or two, but for twenty it becomes a problem.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Like all works in process, I'm trying to figure this out. So as students and artist, what do you prefer? Do you want to strictly find and bring your own supplies? Do you prefer a kit? and can you handle a small price adjustment if it's needed?</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">This little dragonfly was started in my Dragonfly Sky class, a class built and streamlined with kits, a set pattern, and a booklet to help people on their way. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx0FH4i2gTp1REhwi10s9SG_AzuhGyNNFOFOSNzFTVr4WpvTPUjesPCf47Dwg5XGV2lsvjNoegNVhyCOeJLa4XiLY2mQoD6Tiy9wYziKeOVfJtrC1D-TQFP4wasYSaclMxBS2GhfLG3ChW/s1600/dragonfly_sky_cover+frontf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx0FH4i2gTp1REhwi10s9SG_AzuhGyNNFOFOSNzFTVr4WpvTPUjesPCf47Dwg5XGV2lsvjNoegNVhyCOeJLa4XiLY2mQoD6Tiy9wYziKeOVfJtrC1D-TQFP4wasYSaclMxBS2GhfLG3ChW/s200/dragonfly_sky_cover+frontf.jpg" width="113" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The booklet is available separately at</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">www.ellenanneeddy.com</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.ellenanneeddy.com/store-detail.php?cat=1&ID=4">Dragonfly Sky</a></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">or at<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dragonfly-Sky-Ellen-Anne-Eddy/dp/0982290128/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322324207&sr=8-1"> Amazon </a></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">If you order from Ellen you get your book personally signed.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Or you can ask your guild to bring Ellen to teach you to make your own dragonfly sky. Ellen's <a href="http://www.ellenanneeddy.com/classes.php">Teaching information </a></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>Ellen Anne Eddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884881913053881049noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777263724982522569.post-83601546054125949662011-10-20T14:12:00.000-05:002011-12-02T14:13:32.957-06:00April H. Center: A Brilliant Painter with Words<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ77ibbHn6o7xLaZzYddgXd029uCp0e3zLUDJ21gt2_kleYu0gSpaa_pEKoW4vO0ZUDQJMCg58q8bHgGXKCPa4MR1I02zVHrBfF90z9WRz4hL9OaNpuCZ4XYeEdTFz5iK2x5hehQJNR5c/s1600/free+motion+applique+mastery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ77ibbHn6o7xLaZzYddgXd029uCp0e3zLUDJ21gt2_kleYu0gSpaa_pEKoW4vO0ZUDQJMCg58q8bHgGXKCPa4MR1I02zVHrBfF90z9WRz4hL9OaNpuCZ4XYeEdTFz5iK2x5hehQJNR5c/s400/free+motion+applique+mastery.jpg" width="283" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Holding up the World by Ellen Anne Eddy</td></tr></tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">April Center is a word painter in the Indiana Dunes area. Her images flow out of the page and grab you tightly. Sometimes they are warm and caressing. Sometimes they reach out in ways that are ferocious. But whatever they do, they always touch you somewhere deeply.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">What Matters Now</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Copyright 2011</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">By April Center</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The trees know. The seasons require attention of different matters.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">In spring they stretch their arms reaching for the light and the warmth,</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">With an awakening that follows throughout the millennium.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The sap slowly flows it’s lifeblood through their veins long before tiny sprouts appear</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Like tiny fingers, whispering, reaching to grasp the hope and pursuit of sunlight,</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Finding succor for the summer</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Ever beckoning, wooing, breathing, soothing.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">No need for wondering what matters now in the halcyon days of spring.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The trees know what matters in the glorious summer.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The trees are in full prayer and reverie – their chorus is heard easily</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Above the canopy bestowing silent solace</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Their arms with a million fans swaying, sometimes gently laughing, softly sighing</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Sometimes boldly shouting, clapping and cheering</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">To the heartbeat of the wind – dancing,</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Ever dancing with a grace beyond compare</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The trees know what matters now in the ripe days of summer.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The trees know what matters in the fullness of time</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">In the slow fall from grace</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">No longer hindered, the trees and their kin shrug off their summer shroud</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">To be found scattered and strewn on the ground preparing a bed.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">They sigh with a satisfied sleepiness after the dance.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">A kaleidoscope of color shivers from their frames,</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The painted beauty now leaves no trace,</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">What is left is the enduring body and face.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">In the twilight of autumn the trees know what matters in the universe.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The trees know what matter most at this time. No longer concealed</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Is their courage standing in place, always there but rarely seen while encased</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">In their garments of lace.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Not languishing, not laggardly, they brace</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">For the sharp, serrated winds that gust with the squalls of winter,</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Withering all but the trees, for the trees know what matters in a world of much waste.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">You'll find more writing of April's at <a href="http://prudysview.blogspot.com/">Prudy's View</a>.</span></div>Ellen Anne Eddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884881913053881049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777263724982522569.post-31355600797048815252011-10-19T13:41:00.002-05:002011-12-02T14:13:32.930-06:00Dancing with Design:A Little less real. 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I fight with realism. I really do. I wouldn't say I win over often</span>.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> I'm not against realism. I think that like fire, it's a good tool and a harsh master.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">So it was with great glee I found myself with a new design tool. Like most great tools, it's not an object so much as a headset. When I realized I could make flowers out of shapes, I then realized they didn't have to necessarily conform.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I've explored this cool Dance of Design, in Jim West's Magazine, <a href="http://www.quiltposium.com/?page_id=3">Quiltposium</a>, pages 136-154 with a number of flowers. Go check it out. And take a shape out dancing today!</span></div>Ellen Anne Eddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884881913053881049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777263724982522569.post-49252918258978899482011-10-15T09:49:00.000-05:002011-12-02T14:13:32.944-06:00Pat Winter: It's Always the Quiet Ones<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI3XfDKrqtyML-AGFgdqmEJWnGKzZERqOy9JLtDj3atJV-wEQPp8YI-YXtTpLkwGBgFHD_Km0oJVBZNoC8CUSKWYPzTBLfiuuaxOhSRMv2AwOiSzvwN9bb36XhClWn_Un_RJlAqrhKyBY/s1600/mermaid005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI3XfDKrqtyML-AGFgdqmEJWnGKzZERqOy9JLtDj3atJV-wEQPp8YI-YXtTpLkwGBgFHD_Km0oJVBZNoC8CUSKWYPzTBLfiuuaxOhSRMv2AwOiSzvwN9bb36XhClWn_Un_RJlAqrhKyBY/s400/mermaid005.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Crazy for CQ.<br />The best Mermaids ever!</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Tucked in a cute little farmhouse outside Chesterton Indiana lives a quiet wild lady named Pat Winter. Pat has to be one of the most inventive crazy quilters ever. And when I'm lucky she dyes fabric with me. This incredible mermaid book is one of her masterpieces. Here's what she has to say for herself.</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8F_hKYi1DB75lbkbxqLCcPWV9jNgVwmKCv38OsjAfTWAfGVB_IhSVBaiISx9J6dfWe3HQ9bRczajSadFheW2HSybzGufiOQUb5DRDyipXCqfR4xb-EQHgxv2TOohphQWf-IyskEECosA/s1600/mermaid+page+012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8F_hKYi1DB75lbkbxqLCcPWV9jNgVwmKCv38OsjAfTWAfGVB_IhSVBaiISx9J6dfWe3HQ9bRczajSadFheW2HSybzGufiOQUb5DRDyipXCqfR4xb-EQHgxv2TOohphQWf-IyskEECosA/s320/mermaid+page+012.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> "Once upon a time there was a girl who gathered bits and bobs and her friends made fun of her "junk" collecting...... Up until a few years ago I never considered what I did art. I had always wanted to paint and draw however I did not inherit that skill from my mother. I did inherit the desire to collect and this I did very well. From a very young age I began gathering every little discarded trinket, pretty fabric scrap and bauble I found unusual or interesting and slipped them into a chest in my closet for safe keeping. As a teen only my closest friends saw my strange collection of bits and bobs. Unfortunately those items never made it with me through life but my desire and need to gather remains with me still today.</span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFSGQEpAS90ApWq6LfIsPuPQo7lQzUihdf4JvTxoZGUCfQJOLt_ywEebYyDp_CqjMOb963t3B40BNg4SEvxJVR0HN8qMQ8bwaoMppgvBoMseexMsMn3_RjHyUbWc3vW8LssCpT_2-x86k/s1600/mermaid+pages+done+015.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFSGQEpAS90ApWq6LfIsPuPQo7lQzUihdf4JvTxoZGUCfQJOLt_ywEebYyDp_CqjMOb963t3B40BNg4SEvxJVR0HN8qMQ8bwaoMppgvBoMseexMsMn3_RjHyUbWc3vW8LssCpT_2-x86k/s320/mermaid+pages+done+015.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> This comes in handy for a crazy quilter. Vintage laces, doilies, buttons, broken jewelry and beads have made it into my current collection as well as velvet remnants from Holiday dresses, lace trims from wedding gowns, silk, satin and moire from cast off prom dresses and an ongoing stash of "fancy fabrics" gathered from my shopping ventures all find a home in my studio. I enjoy making unusual and useful items using the crazy quilt method, not traditional wall hangings or bed coverings.</span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-HD1PWXI6uxZi3otiEv68I3bAoGY4Df1j84PKBJWWJi_qHnf4OYELvkFRpUE28bjbF43ZWP_B3GmRHIEA6wXY49jQYE0Q9kEU8RBlbbuW-J9jnZ0RivM7ooJbH8E3hsiWo3t0V_NH5ns/s1600/mermaid+page+012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-HD1PWXI6uxZi3otiEv68I3bAoGY4Df1j84PKBJWWJi_qHnf4OYELvkFRpUE28bjbF43ZWP_B3GmRHIEA6wXY49jQYE0Q9kEU8RBlbbuW-J9jnZ0RivM7ooJbH8E3hsiWo3t0V_NH5ns/s320/mermaid+page+012.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I can't explain what drives me to create, I blame it on my muse. All I know is that whatever it is that makes me spend hours stitching and embellishing almost every day of my life is too strong to deny and brings me much pleasure. Imagine finding yourself locked in a chocolate shop and you were a chocoholic. That is how I feel when I walk into my studio and begin gathering items for a project. Lunatic? Yes, I believe so."</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKPSKQ5j5ksyXKvaMqLbj_YDcCuvuMwYU6odxK9jCE5Zjmpiu2RbkxyuFp7AY-_lM9YZpXVrBG3_YGh5SG28dz6PNriW8-1SOpqJoLdojdoHESjaaMCv77ep2BFAkElczdyjiNoM6xQwo/s1600/quilt+gatherings+magazine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKPSKQ5j5ksyXKvaMqLbj_YDcCuvuMwYU6odxK9jCE5Zjmpiu2RbkxyuFp7AY-_lM9YZpXVrBG3_YGh5SG28dz6PNriW8-1SOpqJoLdojdoHESjaaMCv77ep2BFAkElczdyjiNoM6xQwo/s320/quilt+gatherings+magazine.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">You'll find Pat's amazing work at <a href="http://gatherings100.blogspot.com/">Winter Gatherings</a>, where you can also purchase her new magazine, Crazy Quilt Gatherings, full of projects, tips, teaching and of course, crazy beautiful work.</span></span></div>Ellen Anne Eddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884881913053881049noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777263724982522569.post-29494509232831601882011-09-10T09:19:00.000-05:002011-12-02T14:13:32.924-06:00Laura Krasinski: Out on a Limb<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"></span></span><br /><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8w_AI-Ir_khKvg6tOaEDKetY8gOQUkocJvQAPBwOe2KIs1gVuUGhoZEvyaOgoPtRl1NPJLNzTc_k8r8lM4_G6A5vUsS9CCYs7S-NozhmGJF1aYbGkCsYfvCwouOOzEm04WauoOszXbM/s1600/krainski%252C+He+loves+me.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8w_AI-Ir_khKvg6tOaEDKetY8gOQUkocJvQAPBwOe2KIs1gVuUGhoZEvyaOgoPtRl1NPJLNzTc_k8r8lM4_G6A5vUsS9CCYs7S-NozhmGJF1aYbGkCsYfvCwouOOzEm04WauoOszXbM/s200/krainski%252C+He+loves+me.jpg" width="148" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not</td></tr></tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Laura's another quilter who shared images with me for the Beautiful Beast Slide Show. She wrote me this story about stretching, trying and changing that is the heart of the Lunatic Fringe.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">This is "the story of making a quilt of my daughter. It's called He Loves Me He Loves Me Not. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I was asked by Wendy Butler Berns if I would like to participate in her exhibit for Houston. It is called Out on a Limb. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I jumped at the chance since I have never had a quilt in a big show before. So she continues to tell me about the challenge and then said it had to be at least 50".... My jaw immediately dropped. I don't think I spoke a word for a minute or so.. .. I have never made a quilt that large. So I thought about it and decided I needed to make this. I took a photo of my daughter leaning against a tree. I took the photo and with the help of Wendy's technique I turned it into a 52"x64" quilt. I added a wall so I could put her cat Mr. Snuggles sitting on it. ... During the time I was making this quilt I had some major family issues. I really didn't think I would get it done. But, with the help and support of family and friends I did get it done, and in time. This was one of the best experiences of my life. Since I have done this quilt I feel like I need to do something better and maybe bigger. ...But, I am bound and determine to continue to make beautiful quilts now that I have found my true love. "</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Her motto is "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Everything will be o.k. in the end... if it's not o.k. it is not the end."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"></span></span><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"></span></span><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"></span></span><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Fringe people aren't reasonable.Nor is their art. They follow their hearts and do what their heart demands. It's loveliest when you find their people understand and hold them up in that process.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><div><br /></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">You'll find Laura Krasinski's work at</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><div><a avglsprocessed="1" href="http://laurakrasinskiquilts.com/" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">http://laurakrasinskiquilts.<wbr></wbr>com</a> </div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><div><a avglsprocessed="1" href="http://laurasartontherun.blogspot.com/" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">http://laurasartontherun.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com</a></div><div><a avglsprocessed="1" href="http://laurakrasinskiquilts.blogspot.com/" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">http://laurakrasinskiquilts.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com</a></div><div><a avglsprocessed="1" href="http://milwaukeeartquilters.wordpress.com/" style="color: #5c4520;" target="_blank">http://milwaukeeartquilters.<wbr></wbr>wordpress.com</a></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><div><br /></div><span style="color: #888888;"><div><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=3be72b7e72&view=att&th=1324fa8f3f1b1918&attid=0.1.1&disp=emb&zw" /></div></span></span></span></div>Ellen Anne Eddyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884881913053881049noreply@blogger.com4