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Ellen Anne Eddy

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Ellen Anne Eddy

Ms. Eddy has spent over thirty years teaching fiber art to the quilt community all over America. Her books, Thread Magic, and Thread Magic Garden, have been seminal to the Art Quilt Movement.
The stories in these books are from her early years in Boston. They are works of fiction and imagination, but they have their roots in the time she spent there.
Ms. Eddy currently resides in Galesburg, IL with her husband, Donald Bowers, and her cats and dog. She sews, quilts, writes and dreams up crazy stories, just as she always has.

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[image error]Because I’ve taught most of my life, I’ve been a public person. It’s nice that I did that in the quilt world. The quilt world is a tiny and lovely frog pond for a public frog. No one troubles you at the grocery store, or if you’re in your yard. I was noticed when I went to Trinity College in Dublin. Someone did indeed say, “Hey, that’s Ellen Anne Eddy,” and came over to me to chat. Be

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	Thread Magic Garden: Create Enchanted Quilts with Thread Painting & Intuitive Appliqué 4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thread Magic 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thread Magic Garden: Create Enchanted Quilts with Thread Painting & Pattern-Free Appliqué 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thread Magic really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I might dig around in my contentment until it's gone.”
― Ellen Anne Eddy, Thread Magic

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“Beauty is an ephemeral enough state that I caution anyone who depends on it for self worth.”
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“Perhaps the most perilous dangers are the ones we face within ourselves. Who we are inside permits the chances we take with the outside world.”
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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