January 2021 Newsletter
Win a Free Online Class!
In January I'll be teaching for Road@Home, a virtual quilt show. They're offering one free seat in each of my three classes. Read this blog post to see how to enter. (But do so quickly, as the deadline is January 3rd.)

Of course, you can ensure your seat by signing up directly. Click titles below for all the details.
Looking Back at 2020
I'm not big on New Year's resolutions. However, I do like to look back on the previous year to notice lessons learned, projects accomplished, and blessings appreciated. 2020 certainly brought challenges, but it also gave me the opportunity to expand my teaching with online classes. I'm thankful for that. 2020 also gave me a new appreciation for toilet paper that's readily available, and the joy of social encounters!

On the quilting front, here's a look back at my 2020 quilts.



New Work: She Has a Great Personality

My art quilt group is at it again: making self-portraits. This time, the challenge was to make a self-portrait in the style of a favorite artist. I chose Jane Davies, who is an abstract painter.

I figured that making something that loosely resembled a self-portrait in an abstract style would be rather challenging. It wasn't too bad, though.


See more info and a detail shot here. And see the blog links below for several related posts.
A Whole Lotta' Dying
I'm giving myself a gold star for all the fabric dying I've been doing lately. I've done the usual screen printing with stencils and the like.

I've also done a TON of mixing unique combinations and printing them in swatches. Over 250 of them!!! It took a good bit of time, but I'm already finding them to be useful. Check out my blog for several posts about my recent dying efforts.
What's New
I was talking with some other quilters and we were bemoaning how difficult organization can be. Eventually we decided to each tackle an organizational task of our choosing before our next monthly meeting. It's certainly a great time of year for that sort of thing.

What to do, what to do? I think I'll update my quilt records. I have an excel file with all the information about each of my quilts, including awards they've won or who bought them. I'm WAY behind on updating it, so I'll work on catching up.

Have you got any organizing projects you're tackling in the new year? If your quilt and fabric storage needs some tweaking, take a look at how I do it, (on my video page.)
Check out the new student work in the Floral Improv and Love It and Leaf It galleries.

Ellen Lindner
Embracing the new year!
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