Elly Sienkiewicz Appliqué

Appliqué with Elly

Elly Sienkiewicz's Spoken Without a Word (Commemorative Edition)

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Pre-Publication Savings! $35.00 plus $3.50 post (before June 20, 2012)
[Release Date: February 2013]

After publication, the price may be higher. You also may pick up your copy at The Elly Sienkiewicz Appliqué Academy (TESAA) in Williamsburg, VA, or order it to your home to be delivered in March 2013.

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Elly Sienkiewicz
Box SWAW
5540 30th St., NW
Washington, DC 20015

1983 • First Edition of Spoken Without a Word – 2013 • Second Commemorative Edition

Celebrate quilt history — arguably the anniversary of the Baltimore Album Quilt Revival itself.
Collector’s Edition: Contemporary needleartist reproductions, glorious in rebirth; pay antebellum artistry homage and bow to those stitchers’ strength of character.
Hold every word of the 1983 original’s elegant black on cream texts and the engraving-like patterns — rejuvenated by color photo-close-ups of vibrant cloth and stitchery models; all this, book-ended by Elly’s Preface on where you and I were then, and where we now are; punctuated by a surprisingly futuristic Afterword.

Elly Sienkiewicz's Beloved Baltimore Album Quilts
25 Blocks - 12 Quilts - Embellishment Techniques
$29.95 plus $4.99 post [Release Date: October 2010]

It is a how-to-book, a picture catalogue of twelve quilts- and their makers- that comprise the traveling exhibition "Baltimore's Daughters, Friends Stitch Past to Future." Along with basics there is an emphasis on embellishment by thread and cloth, and by increasingly popular art materials.

Elly Sienkiewicz Baltimore Elegance

Order here and it will be signed by Elly!
$29.95 plus $4.99 post

Critics Review: "Appliqué's best how-to book still in print!"
                         "Thorough, exceptionally well illustrated."
                         "A New Approach to Classic Baltimore Album Quilts:
                         Dozens of 8" Classic Baltimore block patterns and an
                         enlargement chart."
                         "Take this beautiful book for bedtime reading. You'll find it is
                         uplifting as well as inspirational!"

Elly Sienkiewicz Teaches You Beginning Balitmore Appliqué DVD

$20.95 plus $4.00 post [Release Date: July 2009]
(lowest shipping anywhere! for 1 copy, anywhere in the world).

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Lift Your Appliqué to New Heights of Elegance

This DVD brings Elly to your home! Let her teach you the basics clearly and systematically... and provide the patterns!
Enjoy Elly's warm supportive company for almost 2 hours as she teaches needleturn appliqués' basics (smooth curves, perfect points, clean inside corners).
Entertaining and educational for quilters of all levels!

This DVD Teaches you how to sew (and design!) the easiest appliqué pattern: a one layer pattern, sometimes called a "papercut". Learn how to design and make your own by the same method you used to fold and cut snowflakes as a child. Three papercut patterns (beginner, intermediate, advanced) are included. ~ Teaches you how to make an oil pastel portrait (from a snapshot) on your background cloth so you can appliqué it into the lesson's quilt block frame. ~ Teaches you how to size a photograph (instructions on the Printed Treasures package) printed onto fabric to be held by your lesson's quilt block frame. ~ Teaches you how to speed-appliqué the very easiest of classic appliquéd quilt borders.

Continue your Baltimore Album journey with world-renowned expert Elly Sienkiewicz with the sequel...

Elly Sienkiewicz Teaches You Advanced Balitmore Appliqué DVD
$21.95 plus $4.00 post [Release Date: November 2009]
(lowest shipping anywhere! for 1 copy, anywhere in the world).

To order today, download the form and mail it to Sienkiewicz DVD.

Lift Your Appliqué to New Heights of Elegance

The founder of the Elly Sienkiewicz Appliqué Academy is now your personal trainer
Elly's clear instructions and irresistible imagery help you make more impressive Baltimore blocks and quilts
Enjoy this visual guide to advanced techniques-cut-away versus separate unit, inked and embroidered embellishments, and dimensional appliqué
Learn Elly's unique approach to multiple ruching styles

The main lesson is on Star-Ruching, but includes other often rare ruching techniques like Shell-Ruching, Crescent Moon Ruching, Rake-Ruching, and Showy Ruching. Included is a never before brief overview of Setting and Bordering a Baltimore ... and Elly's assessment of why these antebellum quilts have so captured our imaginations ... for almost 30 years!