Thread Magic Garden: Create Enchanted Quilts with Thread Painting & Pattern-Free Appliqué

by Ellen Anne Eddy

“Demonstrates how to bring these flowers alive with machine embroidery and thread painting . . . A gallery of ‘fantasy flower’ quilts will pique your interest.” —Machine Quilting UnlimitedA 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 Anne Eddy’s innovative no-pattern approach, you’ll be on your way to becoming a master art quilter just like her!“Award-winning quilter and 2012 Teacher-of-the-Year nominee Ellen Anne Eddy is well known for her free-motion thread work . . . If you are interested in learning or expanding your skills at machine embroidery, you’ll enjoy this book.” —The Professional Quilter Magazine

116 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 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.