Lin sans l'Autre

ALL ABOUT QUILTS

Hello all of you, 

Every week I will be sharing with you what I know about patchwork and quilts.

For the past 10 years I have been designing cross stitch and finding ways to use them, I have been making pillows, bags, clocks, frames, and also quilts. Some have been published in the magazine Passion Fil (which has sadly stopped being published).

 

The quilt with the teddy bear on it is a design of mine (notice the two ladies in the top left corner, it is the ladies from my previous post about Egypt, an article was published about my trip in this number 2 issue of Passion Fil actually!!).

Since then I have been working a lot on designing quilt patterns on their own.

Turns out after working for Passion Fil, I started designing for the magazine La Pratique du Patchwork.

After using my cross stitch to add in the patchwork top, I started transforming some of my geometrical cross stitch drawings into patchwork, as in this above quilt published in the Pratique du Patchwork number 5.

I then evolved into playing with traditional blocks.

I will tell you about that next week.

manou

PS: Here is a PDF for you to have fun with while you wait till next week!!

Welcome

Hello, 

My name is Emmanuelle, I was born on September 2nd 1969 (I turned 50 this year!!) in Rennes.

I grew up in South America (Ecuador), in Africa (Mali) and the USA (Texas, New Mexico and Wyoming).

I started my business in 2006 under the name of Alice and Co (in memory of my grandmother Alice Bouvier Briand).

In 2009 I had the chance to go teach cross stitch to a group of ladies in Nagada in Egypt thanks to Elvira Gundi (founder of Turath).

 

This experience was amazing and confirmed my need to teach and share my knowledge and creating workbooks to help ladies understand better what they are doing and how to do it, even when I don't speak a word of Egyptian and they don't speak either French of English!!

manou

DE RETOUR

Hello everyone,

Hope this year has been good for you, I have been working on lots of new projects one being to develop my experience in different patchwork techniques.

I am preparing for 2020 a big surprise, and I hope you will be part of it.

I have told you about my workbook Designing a Quilt, perhaps you have a copy of it, well it won't be just a book anymore, it is going to become videos, so that if you haven't been using your workbooks, you will be from now on.

If you don't know about these workbooks, don't worry you will know all about them in the upcoming weeks.

manou