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or you about me ellen anne eddy author of thread magic the enchanted world of ellen anne eddy fiber artist author and teacher view my complete profile would you like to have a class with ellen ellen would be delighted to have a class with you or your group you can check out her classes at www ellenanneeddy com she also offers independent studio time in her studio in indiana talk to ellen about classes at 219 921 0885 or contact her scheduler melida at 405 735 3703 to set a date friday december 2 2011 getting together 2 49 pm posted by ellen anne eddy edit post normally december would be a time of getting things into place getting them together tax receipts almost finished quilts articles that have to go out the teaching is done for the year and all those tasks impossible in the travel have to be done this december add to that i m getting ready for thread magic garden my new book from c t publishing to arrive in january there s a flurry of newsletters articles and new work that has to be in place 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 i know that some people just want information some people want stories some people want a place to check for schedules and some people just want eye candy you ll still find it all here at the art outside the box at ellenanneeddy blogspot com blog i ve put in a cloud label so you can find what you need easier and i m very curious as to what you think i m hoping you ll let me know 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 11 comments saturday november 26 2011 to kit or not to kit a teacher s dilemma 9 46 am posted by ellen anne eddy edit post the decisions we make as artists are so different than the decisions we make as teachers i came out in the seventies with a primary degree ready to teach first grade 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 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 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 but the decisions i make about class are almost in opposition to decisions about the studio 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 the booklet is available separately at www ellenanneeddy com dragonfly sky or at amazon if you order from ellen you get your book personally signed or you can ask your guild to bring ellen to teach you to make your own dragonfly sky ellen s teaching information labels classes 17 comments tuesday august 2 2011 designing ways ornamenting grids the zentangle dance 8 19 am posted by ellen anne eddy edit post a good artist should be able to draw with a berry on a fence tim powers reach for the sky like everyone else i m in love with the whole zen tangle thing i tend to find these things later than everyone else i finally lift my head up and see what s been going on for a long long time but i ve always been a full believer in more is more i m in love what i ve enjoyed most about this is the division and ornamentation of space i also love the whole low tech part of it these are done with a ball point pen on notebook paper all of this started with a simple grid we quilters tend to thing in terms of squares and rectangles but really there are no rules here are a series of different grid fills left to right we ve filled in with spirals a wonky ninepatch a spider web scallops and a larger spiral how fun is that how does that translate to quilting we re still filling in space only with thread can you say stipple you ll find some very cool books on zen tangling on amazon see if it doesn t expand your thinking about space design and the filling of space you ll find more of sandi steen bartholomew s work at http beezinthebelfry blogspot com labels design filling the grid 4 comments wednesday july 6 2011 designing ways the container and the contained 9 58 am posted by ellen anne eddy edit post mother mother may i swim yes my darling daughter hang your clothes on the highest pin and don t go in the water in the same way we read mystery and horror novels and watch romantic comedy we flirt with edges come hither hold on tight don t let go what really is at the edge there s a lot of drama to be gained from art in the process of making a box and then breaking out of it we need the box we need the safety and the security of it all but we crave the excitement and drama of the edge where one thing starts and something else ends when that edge is clean straight and clear it s very tidy but it leaves us wanting to break out nature life the world the universe is not full of a lot of straight edges we impose those on our world but they impose right back at us a good example is mint in your garden you may have planted it in a small plot in a straight line blink twice after a good rain and you ll find it across the yard and down the hill has well my feeling is that i might as well just go along with it so within art it s worth building both you build the surface of your work which is a container then you break out of that container as nature itself is bound to do the stripes here create a sense of order as well as filtered sun but the leaf refuses to stay in place it pops out and our ladybug comes right along with it the vine here creates the border here and our lady bug nestles within it but it too refuses to stay just on the surface it pokes out just enough that we know it s a living thing and not about to follow a ruler this bug is contained by the flower she s on but not entirely she s clearly heading for the edge finally this bug and leaf create the border together they are the container and the contained all in one wrapping it up as quilters we re used to square corners and straight edges we depend on them they make a container for our images but as we make borders and let our work edge right off them we can take our contained work and put it in motion by breaking out of the border and refusing to be contained labels design 4 comments wednesday june 29 2011 designing ways dancing in the grid 7 10 pm posted by ellen anne eddy edit post back to fabric design we ve all watched dancing with the stars once we re done with that and steve goodman how about dancing with butterflies remember the arther mury patterns on the floor basically they were just moving in squares just as an exercise in design i took a butterfly drawing colored it and went dancing with it in squares as i was playing with the placement it wasn t long before i recognized that it was just like playing with a triangle quilt design angling the butterflies as triangles and making them different sizes turned them into instant quilt squares who knew designing fabric is really designing quilts i did this in illustrator partially because i m trying to learn the program and it was as good an exercise as any but it would be so much easier in something like electric quilt 7 i flipped them shrunk them turned them and made them dance then i added a curlicue fabric design is rhythmic pattern across a surface it dances as it repeats itself in the same patterns or in patterns that reflect or flip the original shape like all dancing it s endless built for improvisation but always in place with it s on rhythms am i there yet i don t think so i need to practice with arthur murry just a bit more want to dance wrapping it up designing both quilts and fabric is about rhythmic patterns in and out of a grid find more information about designing fabric on spoonflower find really cool design software at electric quilt 7 or illustrator labels design 1 comments wednesday june 8 2011 designing ways gravity meets geometry 3 12 pm posted by ellen anne eddy edit post what makes a shape move we acknowledged that graphically on paper things move strictly in our head after years of things falling down around us we can look at shapes at certain angles and say yep that s falling we observe that it should be moving and our mind makes it do that so what makes a shape itself mobile moving or static staying still in the same way angles make things move symmetry makes things stay in place a square is the ultimate stable shape nothing about it suggests movement because it s even sides it doesn t even move the eye from the center that changes a bit when we draw it in three dimensions the third dimension adds an angle just in the drawing and we see it move a bit if we elongate the square into rectangles the shape is much more mobile as we go further from equal sides and symmetry our shapes are more mobile but when we put them in a line and change the size the movement is in place and active the eye connects them into a shape with one side much longer than the other making things move of course if we put them in at extreme angles they tumble across the surface how does this translate to quilts that never have a square in them all shapes are geometric shapes we manipulate into organic shapes but the shape of the quilt itself is the strongest one a quilt designed with an elongated outline is in motion from it s inception wrapping it up symmetrical object are stable they do not move unless you put them at an angle or unless you use them to create a shape that is longer on one side than another non symmetrical shapes aways have the suggestion of movement built in to their form labels design 9 comments wednesday june 1 2011 designing ways gravity and motion movement in design 10 27 am posted by ellen anne eddy edit post s we talk about designs moving but in reality unless you re dealing with a series of images they can t a two dimensional image is stuck in one place forever what moves is not the image it s our imagination of what happens next to the image we imagine the movements that must in our experience happen after where the image is now we have a life long experience of gravity we know when things are going to fall we also can see from that same life experience when something appears balanced and stable our life experience supplies the suggestion that something is moving the picture itself stays stable what is the defining element the angle of the object our tree moves here because she s off balance her yellow background is at an angle against hers and the feeling is that she s in extreme motion our tree here is reaching up at a slight angle but she s not really moving because she s stable against her background this tree is completely rooted and solid where she is her angle is straight and vertical to the sides of the work she s not going anywhere summing it up all movement in design is an illusion formed from our memory and experience of gravity if we recreate the feeling of falling or motion in a design the design will appear to move all movement is created in the angles we apply to our designs next moving in on and around a grid labels design 1 comments older posts subscribe to posts atom dragonfly blog archive 2011 12 december 1 getting together november 1 august 1 july 1 june 3 may 2 february 2 january 1 2010 20 september 1 august 1 july 1 june 1 may 1 april 3 march 2 february 3 january 7 essential embroidery stitches get this free book from quilting arts it has a series of articles i wrote called defining the line my blog list ellen anne eddy s thread magic 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