Lisa Ellis Quilts - Studio Experiments

Worship

Healing

Studio Experiments

I like to work in a series to learn new techniques or explore new ideas.

Vikki Pignatelli's Improvisational Curves

While visiting my friend Vikki, she taught me her very fun technique for designing and sewing curves.

I made these two fun pieces to practice. She also showed me how to make these pleated borders.

Fire Dance

Fire Dance shows the spirit of God in waves of energy, moving over the earth during creation. In the earth’s initial stages, God’s spirit, represented by fire (coral), the waters and air (teal), and the earth (black) are all inter-mingled while the spirit creates their form and they become distinct entities.

This piece is a part of the on-line gallery called Braving the Elements. It was also a part of the Sacred Threads 2009 show in Columbus, Ohio.

Feel the Mist

One of the quilt groups I attend is called Playing Outside of the Block. Its a wonderful mix of traditional and art quilters. A challenge was issued to make an 18" x 18" piece on the theme of cool or hot. I chose to make a cool piece. Check out all the 18" x 18" pieces on the Playing Outside of the Block website.

Raggedy Reverse Appliqué

On Simply Quilts, I caught an episode with Kim Deneault. She has developed a technique called Raggedy Reverse Applique which she uses for working with kids. I decided to give it a try for making art quilt abstracts.

Canyon

Night Sky

Tide Pools

Making Art from My Own Art

This series is based on using a digital photograph of one of my pieces to make new quilts.

Almost Winter II for Candy

This was a commission piece I did for the Windrush Gallery. I experimented using the digital image of the piece to create new art quilts

I manipulated the digital image with photo editing software and printed the transform images onto fabric. Two of the images are negatives. I then added paint and quilting to enhance the images.

This piece is similar to the previous except I used all positive images in different colors.

In this art quilt, I used the same image and printed it in different sizes and then enhanced the piece with extensive quilting.

In this piece I used the major lines of the trees as a pattern for quilting the image onto the fabric. Added leaves with metallic threads.