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s and amazing embroidery but we re getting together right now posted by ellen anne eddy at 12 55 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday october 20 2011 april h center a brilliant painter with words holding up the world by ellen anne eddy 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 what matters now copyright 2011 by april center the trees know the seasons require attention of different matters in spring they stretch their arms reaching for the light and the warmth with an awakening that follows throughout the millennium the sap slowly flows it s lifeblood through their veins long before tiny sprouts appear like tiny fingers whispering reaching to grasp the hope and pursuit of sunlight finding succor for the summer ever beckoning wooing breathing soothing no need for wondering what matters now in the halcyon days of spring the trees know what matters in the glorious summer the trees are in full prayer and reverie their chorus is heard easily above the canopy bestowing silent solace their arms with a million fans swaying sometimes gently laughing softly sighing sometimes boldly shouting clapping and cheering to the heartbeat of the wind dancing ever dancing with a grace beyond compare the trees know what matters now in the ripe days of summer the trees know what matters in the fullness of time in the slow fall from grace no longer hindered the trees and their kin shrug off their summer shroud to be found scattered and strewn on the ground preparing a bed they sigh with a satisfied sleepiness after the dance a kaleidoscope of color shivers from their frames the painted beauty now leaves no trace what is left is the enduring body and face in the twilight of autumn the trees know what matters in the universe the trees know what matter most at this time no longer concealed is their courage standing in place always there but rarely seen while encased in their garments of lace not languishing not laggardly they brace for the sharp serrated winds that gust with the squalls of winter withering all but the trees for the trees know what matters in a world of much waste you ll find more writing of april s at prudy s view posted by ellen anne eddy at 12 12 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday october 15 2011 pat winter it s always the quiet ones crazy for cq the best mermaids ever 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 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 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 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 you ll find pat s amazing work at winter gatherings where you can also purchase her new magazine crazy quilt gatherings full of projects tips teaching and of course crazy beautiful work posted by ellen anne eddy at 7 49 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday september 10 2011 laura krasinski out on a limb he loves me he loves me not 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 this is the story of making a quilt of my daughter it s called he loves me he loves me not 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 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 her motto is everything will be o k in the end if it s not o k it is not the end 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 you ll find laura krasinski s work at http laurakrasinskiquilts com http laurasartontherun blogspot com http laurakrasinskiquilts blogspot com http milwaukeeartquilters wordpress com posted by ellen anne eddy at 7 19 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday september 8 2011 wild annie wade happy for no reason annie wade is a wildly creative lady who i first learned about when she lived in florida her work reflects the colors and chaos of the tropics happy for no reason is a fabric book of of scraps and bits and pieces i ve tried different techniques on and just made me happy for no reason named after a book i read earlier this year by marci shimoff gator geezer gator geezer started as a photo her husband took with the kids from an air boat she says it was for my hubby of 33 years this weekend was made of scraps that most people throw away my son in law took some alligator pix when he was in the everglades on a with my daughter and grandbaby and i knew i had to try to translate it with fabric the original picture which you can see on my blog is quite different and i still want to work on the eye but otherwise i think i m done love using this technique to make quilts annie spells her name just like that and it s true she s so unexpected and fun i love the idea of a book that s happy just for happiness that may well be the best reality we make for ourselves i love when someone claims it in their art annie has also recreated her life she has a grand daughter in barranquilla columbia and lives there with her husband so she can be with her catch her wild adventures in art and in life at www bohemiannieart blogspot com posted by ellen anne eddy at 5 29 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday september 6 2011 celebrate the fringe celebrate the fringe we re doing a follower give away to celebrate all our wonderful fringy folk we ll pick one winner from the lunatic fringe followers on october 1 2011 the winner will get kit including 1 2 yard of ellen anne eddy s amazing hand dyed fabric and hand dyed pearl cotton to go with it sign up as a lunatic fringe page follower on this page for your entry want to improve your odds sign up as follower and do a guest post for the blog to have your name in the hat twice contestants must be in the united states come join the fringe and get some fabulous fringy hand dye to play with email ellen to talk about putting up a guest blog it s not hard it takes a couple pictures and a paragraph we ll help show us your fringe posted by ellen anne eddy at 9 43 am 21 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday september 5 2011 romance from the edge of the fringe i want a man i want a man who ll wash the dishes i want a man who ll make the bed i want a man who s not suspicious i want a man who s halfway dead i want a man who ll do the laundry vacuum the carpets sweep the floor i want a man who knows his boundaries no one could ask for more uncle bonsai for two years i ve had lizards on my wall no i don t live in florida or any where else where that kind of ambiance is every day i ve had two komodo dragon lizards on my design wall for over two years i drew them dancing and the butterflies to go around them and left them there on the design wall either like desert or like an unripe melon waiting for later i wish i could see images fully when i draw them for some reason i can t i need to sit with them i can walk into someone else s drawing and often tell them this is off this is out of proportion for some reason it s like i m in a semi dark room where i just can t quite see what s happening so when i m unsure i ll sit a drawing where i can see it for a long time to see what i might have missed in this case that was wise i could see the neck was wrong on one the back needed to be wider on the other i adjusted the drawings and then still waited what for they re really scary not because they re komodo dragons i ve met one actually and i loved her she was a modern day dinosaur now mind you i m glad she d eaten first before i visited they represent all the fear i have over the dance between men and women romance scares me green it s not that it s not of interest although i ll admit that as i get older the guys get less appealing and though i have a bevy of strong supportive women friends i can t help but feel that i ve missed something i was an odd and distressed young woman who went through a whirl of inappropriate men landed in therapy and came out 15 years later with a better adjusted attitude and no one in sight by then art was my survival it was past my life i d pulled all of my issues into different quilts and dragged them one by one into my therapist s office and i had a habit of living every extra moment of my life at my machine it s astonishing but true that men don t come into your studio by accident or design to meet you i ve also found that every time i ve tried to engineer that it doesn t work either sooner or later i m back in my studio at 58 i m resigned cats and dogs are truly lovely roommates besides i d need someone who could do light housecleaning gardening household repair and not watch sports i don t believe that paragon exists anywhere over the years i ve watched my married friends sometimes in jelousy sometimes with joy for their joys sometime in anguish at what they ve had to face i ve heard their stories cried with them laughed with them helped fight their battles cheered at their victories taken in their children as my own given them back in a heart beat when it was time i can t say it was easy it was infinitely better than living in a hell of one it grounded me to the world which i do need some help on so it was with some shock as i watched a friend acknowledge that her gentle kindly marriage that i ve truly envied includes special moments where her husband radiates black rage and terrorizes her with it her oldest son tried practicing grandchild blackmail you can imagine he learned it somewhere i find myself needing to take out my tattered images of love and romance and say is this what you had in mind and i looked up and saw my dancing romancing komodo dragons drawn waiting on my wall terrified now the things i draw sometimes happen i do not know why it isn t something that s always true but i watch for it so when i draw something that scares me i have a choice i can dig my head in the sand and refuse the image refuse to be part of it or work with it mind you it doesn t go away but denial is not just a river in egypt or i can work the image and see if somehow the magic happens sometimes if you work through the fear and the pain it flips over something falls into a different place and the object of fear and pain becomes something lovely if scary or funny it shifts something in my head and it shifts something within the piece it becomes a glorified wound a resurrection i started this year realizing that i had hid from these large lizards on my wall i told myself lizards don t win awards they don t get in shows why would you do a large quilt that will take months and months that no one will want to see you don t pin a drawing to a wall for 2 years and ignore it because it s not important the denial is a very wide river dark and cold i plunged in picked out thread and fabric and started to stitch last night as i pulled them from the machine i could tell the magic is on it s way they re ripply rivers of orange and blue muscle with scales they re gorgeous though the dance is risky dangerous a bit too close it s lovely will my friend find a way to restructure her world i ve watched her do it time after time she has the courage of mountains and stone i ve taken my lizards and danced with them that s my part i wrote this about a year ago as a complete surprise these babes have gone to houston i don t have a good track record there but i do believe that it s an honor to be shown and it s my job to shock scare titillate and generally push people past some boundaries i d say my work is done you ll find the wonderful music of uncle bonzai at the uncle bonzai home page they re irreverent fun and wonderfully fringy you ll find soulmates my lizard quilt at in the humor section at houston stop by and hum them a tune i think they ll dance for you too posted by ellen anne eddy at 8 20 am 8 comments email 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