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Below is a
list of books and instructional DVD's written by
Elly Sienkiewicz. Many are out of print and
therefore unavailable from the publishers. Those
book titles that are out-of-print have been noted. If you are searching for an out-of print
book, you may try posting your search request on an
appliqué forum, or visiting www.BookFinder.com for
help. Elly's books are also often resold on
Amazon.com or Ebay. If the book is still in print,
please contact your local quilt shop, or call C&T
Publishing 1-800-284-1114; or visit their web site
at www.ctpub.com for information and ordering.
You are also invited
to visit Elly's website to inquire about her
books.
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Books and DVD's Authored by
Elly Sienkiewicz
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Elly Sienkiewicz's Beloved
Baltimore Album Quilts |
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Baltimore
Album Legacy:
Catalogue to C & T Publishing's 1998
Baltimore Album Revival |
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Elly Sienkiewicz Teaches You
Advanced Baltimore Appliqué
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Baltimore Beauties and Beyond,
Volume I: Studies in
Classic Album Quilt Appliqué |
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Elly Sienkiewicz Teaches You
Beginning Baltimore Appliqué
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Design a
Baltimore Album Quilt!
A Teach-Yourself Course in Sets and Borders:
A Design Companion to Baltimore Beauties and
Beyond |
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Baltimore Elegance:
A New Approach to Classic Album Quilts
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Baltimore Album Quilts:
A Pattern Companion to Baltimore Beauties
and Beyond, Studies in Classic Album Quilt
Appliqué, Volume I |
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Sweet Dreams, Moon Baby:
A Quilt to Make, a Story to Read |
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Baltimore Beauties and Beyond,
Volume II: Studies in
Classic Album Quilt Appliqué |
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The Best of Baltimore Beauties,
Part I: 95 Patterns for
Album Blocks and Borders |
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Dimensional Appliqué, Baskets,
Blooms, and Baltimore Borders:
A Pattern Companion to Baltimore Beauties
and Beyond Studies in Classic Album Quilt
Appliqué Volume II |
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The Best of Baltimore Beauties
Part II: More Patterns for
Album Blocks |
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Papercuts and Plenty:
Volume III of Baltimore Beauties and Beyond:
Studies in Classic Album Quilt Appliqué |
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Appliqué 12 Easy Ways!
Charming Quilts, Giftable Projects, and
Timeless Techniques |
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Appliqué 12 Borders &
Medallions;
Patterns from Easy to Heirloom:
A Pattern Companion to Baltimore Beauties
and Beyond, Studies in Classic Album Quilt
Appliqué, Volume III |
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Appliqué Paper Greetings
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Baltimore Album Revival!
-- Historic Quilts in the Making: Catalogue
of the 1994 C & T Baltimore Album Revival
Quilt Show and Contest |
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Fancy Appliqué
12 Lessons to Enhance Your Skills |
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Spoken Without A Word
A Lexicon of Selected Symbols with 24
Patterns From Classic Baltimore Album Quilts |
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Romancing Ribbons into Flowers |
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Elly Sienkiewicz's Beloved
Baltimore Album Quilts
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Personalized Autograph of Simply Elly's
Signature with "save on shipping" coupon!
All patterns and how-to for the Happiness
Journey Quilt; Basics and beyond how-to;
Large section on embellishment in thread,
ink, paint, pastels with exquisite examples!
Plus thoughts from the needleartists and
Elly on why the Baltimore Album revival has
grown during its past 30 years.
Gorgeous pictures and full documentation on
all of the 12 Baltimore's Daughters -
Friends Stitch Past to Future Exhibition -
plus fully diagramed credits showing who
stitched which block.
Appliqué basics plus special techniques for
appliqué and embellishment
Over 120 quiltmakers contributed to the
quilts in the gallery
Details for the setting of Elly's Happiness
Journey quilt
Featuring quilts from the 2010 Quilt's Inc.
exhibit, Baltimore Album Review II:
Baltimore's Daughters - Friends Stitch Past
to Future.
Celebrate the return of classic Baltimore
patterns! These smaller blocks make for
easier, more portable quilt projects that
you and yours will cherish for years to
come.
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Comes with a
newly designed "Thank you card"
(hand autographed … for your paper
ephemera collection from Elly’s new
publishing company, Lily-Tulip
Designs®
$21.95 plus $4.00 shipping/handling.
Please allow 6 weeks for delivery.
(USPS First Class Parcel)
Send separate check or money order
(sorry, no credit cards) for $25.95
made payable to "Sienkiewicz" at
Sienkiewicz's DVD
5540 30th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20015
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Elly Sienkiewicz Teaches You
Advanced Baltimore Appliqué
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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 maiin 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!
Continue your Baltimore Album journey with
world-renowned expert Elly Sienkiewicz in
this sequel to the popular Elly Sienkiewicz
Teaches You Beginning Baltimore Appliqué©
DVD
This second DVD is also filmed in the
gracious Williamsburg Hospitality House Inn,
Elly's Appliqué Academy site, and this DVD
teaches you:
Pattern Transfer: You'll explore pattern
transfer and learn a technique Elly
developed called "Pattern-Bridging".
The Pattern: Elly teaches an exquisite sprig
of roses block whose pattern, "The Star
Ruched Rose", is included on the DVD
Appliqué Methods: This block reviews Cutaway
Appliqué by Needleturn — teaching its unique
methods for Points, Curves, and Inside
Corners. Next, Separate Unit Needleturn
Appliqué is taught on the tiny leaves.
Ruching: Ruching as many of you know is
patterned gathering. You'll learn the most
common kind of ruching, "Shell Ruching",
plus rectangular "Rake Ruching", a curved
"Crescent Moon" ruching pattern, and
variations of these patterns. You'll ruche
our lesson block's flowers in a "Star
Ruching Pattern".
Embellishment in Thread: You'll learn how to
embroider the finest stems, flower stamens,
moss on the moss rose, and serrations on the
rose leaves.
Embellishment in Ink: You'll learn how to
iron-on a photocopy of a Victorian
hummingbird engraving, then etch it in
finest permanent pen. You'll learn how to
pen in the finest botanical details, adding
a finer depth to the embroidered
embellishment. The hummingbird transfer is
included so that you can print it out.
Copperplate Calligraphy: You'll learn how to
change the writing you were taught into the
artful Copperplate Calligraphy of the
antique Albums. Learn Elly's secret for a
rough draft in place — and thickening the
downstroke to imitate the effect of the old
elbow pens. The Copperplate alphabet is
included in the DVD.
Sets and Borders: Elly Teaches Advanced
Baltimore Appliqué concludes with this
rarely covered subject. You'll learn so much
about designing the "Set" of your blocks so
quickly with beautiful quilt examples!
This second DVD is good entertainment - with
an informative interview section. Elly’s
excellent instruction got her voted
"Favorite Appliqué Teacher" (2009) by
readers of Quilter's Newsletter. Let her
teach you in the most comfortable of
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Comes with a newly designed "Thank
you card" (hand autographed … for
your paper ephemera collection from
Elly’s new publishing company,
Lily-Tulip Designs®
$20.95 plus $4.00 shipping/handling.
Please allow 6 weeks for delivery.
(USPS First Class Parcel)
Send separate check or money order
(sorry, no credit cards) for $24.95
made payable to "Sienkiewicz" at
Sienkiewicz's DVD
5540 30th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20015
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Elly Sienkiewicz Teaches You
Beginning Baltimore Appliqué
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An entertaining, educational
—100 minute long— visit with Elly
Hard to get into an Elly class? Invite her
home with you for almost 2 hours of private
tutoring - then take the best seat in the
house!
Curious about February's annual Appliqué
Academy®? Meet its Williamsburg Hospitality
House Inn site — and one of its 10 caring
Academy teachers!
Too expensive to travel to an Elly class?
Bring her to your house! Let her teach you
the basics clearly and systematically... and
provide the patterns!
Would enjoy a relaxed chat with Elly? The
smile-filled DVD "interview" is a visit -
with its family pictures and stuff you
wouldn't think to ask ... like how she met
Mr. S!
Find it hard to learn "in class"? Your DVD’s
close-up stitching view may well be even
better than Elly's! And you can take this
class repeatedly!
Enjoy Elly's warm supportive company for
almost 2 hours as she teaches needleturn
appliqués' basics (smooth curves, perfect
points, clean inside corners)
Filmed in the gracious Williamsburg
Hospitality House Inn, Elly's Appliqué
Academy site, this DVD also 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. 3 papercut patterns (beginner,
intermediate, advanced) are included.
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.
How to size a photograph (instructions on
the Printed Treasures package) printed onto
fabric to be held by your lesson's quilt
block frame.
How to speed-appliqué the very easiest of
classic appliquéd quilt borders.
One of Elly's own, rarely seen Album Quilts,
"Alex's Album - Classic Revival" concludes
the teaching portion of the DVD. You'll
delight in the intricacies of its papercut
blocks - which you now know how to design
and to sew.
After you've watched the lesson, seen a
couple of shots of Elly's Appliqué Academy,
gotten a sense of what fun it must be to
take classes and reside (open classrooms at
night and all sorts of girlish delights …
the perfect counterpart to excellent
teaching!) in the charming Inn; you'll "walk
around" historic Williamsburg, Virginia.
This DVD is entertaining as well as
instructive, with its beautiful photography
set to a bit of music. (You'll find this DVD
a thoroughly "giftable" package to send to a
quilting friend.)
Though Elly loves to write (C&T, her
publisher for so many books, is about to
publish her 21st book), this DVD "picture"
is truly worth 1,000 words! It may be a
short-run "in print" … so get yours now. |
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Baltimore Elegance
A New Approach to
Classic Album Quilts
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25 new, smaller (8"), less complex blocks
8 large reproduction blocks - plus 8 large
reproduction blocks - plus border designs
6 lessons for building and improving your
appliqué skills
Embellish pretty totes, aprons, pillows, and
a block carrier
6 lessons for building and improving your
appliqué skills
Embellish pretty totes, aprons, pillows, and
a block carrier
6 lessons for building and improving your
appliqué skills
Embellish pretty totes, aprons, pillows, and
a block carrier |
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Sweet Dreams, Moon Baby
A Quilt to Make, a Story to Read
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Wrap your new baby in a quilt that only Elly
Sienkiewicz could design! Elly used her
appliqué expertise to create the Moon Baby
and its supporting cast of sweet block
designs like Wee Babe, Sleepy Star, and
Smiling Sun. Read Elly's "Moon Baby Story"
with your own baby, toddler, or grandchild.
5 Dreamy baby projects include the Moon Baby
quilt, Golden Slumbers wallhanging, a
mobile, and more to decorate your favorite
nursery
Patterns for the Moon Baby and Sprinkled
Stars central medallion and 12 smaller
nursery motifs
Use Elly's color schemes or your own with
cotton, wool felt, or plain wool
Includes instructions for hand, machine, and
fusible appliqué, plus piecing, embroidery,
and embellishment techniques |
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Romancing Ribbons into Flowers |
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Romancing Ribbons, the ultimate guide to
making ribbon flowers, brims with the
warmth, charm and artistry of premier ribbon
artist Elly Sienkiewicz. Illustrated
profusely with exquisite projects, this book
is encyclopedic inscope, featuring numerous
techniques and simple, effective methods
presented in a lesson format for self-study
or group enrichment. The bountiful projects
in Romancing Ribbons will delight lovers of
Victoriana, designers of heirloom quilts,
devotees of chic ornaments and festive
attire, and all who love the romance and
beauty of ribbon artistry. The comprehensive
Resource Directory provides access to myriad
ribbons and embellishments to fashion both
practical and lavish designs. Buy this book
to dream on, and then romance your ribbons
into favorite flowers! |
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The Best of Baltimore Beauties,
Part I
95 Patterns for
Album Blocks and Borders |
In response to overwhelming demand from fans
of Baltimore-style album quilts, C&T
Publishing presents a collection of Elly
Sienkiewicz’s most popular block and border
patterns. Features patterns personally
chosen by Elly from Papercuts and Plenty, as
well as her out-of-print books: Baltimore
Album Quilts, Baltimore Beauties and Beyond
Volume Two, Dimensional Appliqué, and Spoken
Without a Word.
Individual quilters and shop owners, please
note that this is available directly from C
& T Publishing (800-284-1114) even though
not all distributors have it. |
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Appliqué 12 Easy Ways!
Charming Quilts, Giftable Projects, and
Timeless Techniques |
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This excellent book teaches you how to do
hand appliqué simply. Great drawings show
exactly how it's done. Even a beginner can
make the cover quilt, "You've Stolen My
Heart!" As you sew, you'll learn a lifetime
of appliqué skills in just a few evenings.
See your points, curves, and corners
improve, heart by heart. While you create
the pillow "Dutch Bulbs a' Bloomin" you'll
perfect superfine stems, folded flowers,
layered appliqué, and smooth round grapes.
You'll be astonished at how much you learn
so quickly. |
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Appliqué Paper Greetings
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Appliqué
Paper Greetings teaches all about card
making: What cards are, what they do,
design, and editorial approaches that make
cards successful. Appliqué Paper Greetings
is a workbook with sequential lessons and
patterns. The lessons begin with the
simplest of cards, the cut-out design motif
itself, then move on to postcards and folded
cards, dimensional ones, pop-up cards, those
that contain small treasures, and greetings
that are functional gifts in themselves.
Ribbon flowers and other embellishments are
covered, as are TechnoFancies, cards
decorated by the sewing machine. "Cloth and
paper" - the stuff of this book's projects -
are each bursting with possibilities. Beyond
cloth and paper, beyond the artwork and
editorial processes, hovers the most
important ingredient of all. . . creativity.
It can be encouraged, and even learned. Why
not work your way through the eight lessons?
You may discover magic in these cards - and
in yourself. |
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Fancy Appliqué
12 Lessons to Enhance Your Skills
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Take appliqué from plain to fancy with 12
new lessons from respected needlewoman Elly
Sienkiewicz. Each exercise encourages
playful exploration that will broaden your
stitching horizons!
2 unique Fancy Sampler Quilt
50 different blocks
All the techniques you need including:
Cutaway and reverse cutaway appliqué
Needleturn
Non-decorative appliqué stitches
Stumpwork
Scenery blocks
Methods for perfect points, inside corners,
and smooth curves |
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Baltimore
Album Legacy:
Catalogue to C & T Publishing's 1998
Baltimore Album Revival |
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This book is filled with stunning color
photographs of quilts selected for exhibit
in the 1998 Baltimore Album Revival Quilt
Show and Contest. Interest in this
brilliantly expressive medium has seen a
full-scale revival over the past fifteen
years. Many modern quiltmakers have mastered
the intricacies of the classic 19th century
Baltimore Album quilt. The 1998 Show and
Contest showcases the superb artistry of
today's needleartists who have a love for
this style. Baltimore, a style once so
intimidating to modern quiltmakers, has once
again come fully into its own at the turn of
a new century! |
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Baltimore Beauties and Beyond,
Volume I
Studies in
Classic Album Quilt Appliqué
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Unquestionably the most comprehensive book
on how to do hand appliqué in print today.
This book is clearly and copiously
illustrated, and sparkles with 16 pages of
color. Elly's patterns for making 29 blocks
lead from beginner simplicity to complex
classic appliqué. Basic details of perfect
points, corners, curves, and invisible
stitches lead the reader through Victorian
fancywork like ruching, then right up to the
modern ease of appliqué with the "freezer
paper on top" method. This book will surely
become a needlework classic. |
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Baltimore Album Quilts
A Pattern
Companion to Baltimore Beauties and
Beyond, Studies in Classic Album Quilt
Appliqué, Volume I |
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An intimate portrait, Baltimore Album
Quilts, draws the historic period, the
quilts, and their makers closer to us all.
The lively text stages both quilts and
design motifs in a dramatic historic era.
Fifty-two spectacular color plates, most of
antique needle art, proffer insights into
this nineteenth-century quilt tradition. In
clear close-up photography, they reveal
antique fabric use, period embroidery, and
subtleties of individual presentations. With
integrity and artistry, a splendid fifty-six
patterns for making fifty-eight "beyond
Baltimore" blocks are presented. Each one is
referenced to appliqué lessons in Volume I,
for whom this is a companion pattern book.
Ten exciting classes using this book as text
are outlined and may be taught in workshops
or taken independently. Whether for a great
read, or as a scholarly reference, or to
create an Album heirloom of your own, this
volume, itself, is certain to become a
treasured possession. |
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Baltimore Beauties and Beyond,
Volume II
Studies in
Classic Album Quilt Appliqué |
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Insightful and abundantly illustrated, this
volume probes both the design secrets and
the origins of the classic Baltimore-style
Album quilt. A gallery of fifty full quilts
inspire lessons on picture blocks, Victorian
inkwork, and sets and borders. Forty-five
color plates and numerous design resources
spin out the Album Quilt saga. The author's
infectious enthusiasm, and her impressive,
well-researched familiarity with the genre,
plus thirty-three patterns (twenty for
blocks, thirteen for borders), invite the
reader "beyond" Baltimore. Here scholarship,
artistry, and entertaining text embrace a
glorious quilt tradition for all of us to
share and to make our own. |
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Spoken Without A Word
A Lexicon of Selected Symbols with 24
Patterns
From Classic Baltimore Album Quilts |
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A wee Lexicon of selected symbols, and their
meanings, from the Baltimore Album Quilt
Period. It is illustrated with 23 drawings
carefully replicating original Baltimore
Album Quilt blocks and one contemporary
block. The introduction develops the thesis
that these Baltimore Album Quilts used
symbolism extensively and often
intentionally: that, in fact, these quilts
"spoke without words."
Self Published 1983, The Turtle Hill Press |
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