Thread Magic Garden: Create Enchanted Quilts with Thread Painting & Intuitive Appliqué

by Ellen Anne Eddy

A flower garden is a place to daydream, make wishes, quiet the mind, or spark imagination. Bring this special space indoors by making a floral art quilt using fusible appliqué and machine embroidery techniques. Learn how to develop your own vivid designs and then choose the best fabrics, threads, and embellishments to create special effects that bring your flowers to life. With Ellen’s innovative no-pattern approach, you’ll be on your way to becoming a master art quilter just like her!

Genres: Quilting, Crafts

112 pages, Paperback

First published February 16, 2012

About the author

Author
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.

Reviews

[Betty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Though this book was excellent, it was not what I was looking for, but I still learned a lot.

[Sheila · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has interesting thread painting and applique information that I can use for Kathy's applique quilt. I will need to order it back in for some of the details. I made notes on the flower shapes and petal shapes.