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Quilt Artist, Teacher, Pattern Designer
 Elsie began quilting while
in high school but wasn't hit with the quilting bug until 1976 when she decided to
commemorate the bicentennial with a quilt. Since then Elsie has won
many award for her quilts and she names the following among the most significant to her:
the Best of show at 200th anniversary of Coast Guard, 1 second and 2 third place at AQS in
Paducah, and awards from AIQA, NQA, Quilters Heritage Celebration. She jokes about using the "poor
man's scanner" to design her quilts ( in SPLIT ROCK SUNSET quilt
notes).
Elsie says: "As far as using the
computer for design, I use Electric Quilt for traditional designs. Sometimes for my
pictorials, I'll scan a photo and import it into Corel Draw, then draw over it on another
layer to get a basic outline of the picture, then print it the size I want it. It's on
several pages, and is like a rough draft. The main reason for doing it is to keep the
proportions when I enlarge it. I've also tried out borders for the pictorials by designing
a border in EQ3, leaving the large center block blank, exporting to Corel Draw, and
placing it behind the scanned photo. Gives me an approximation of how the completed quilt
will look. Though I hand draw my patterns, the lettering (cut & paste) is done by
computer, and the instruction sheets. I also do my quilt labels, mostly with Corel Draw
and print directly to fabric with my laser printer. I heat set the label with a hot iron.
I've washed one and it came out pretty good. I don't know what the life of a label done
that way is, though. I'm sure if that toner was on a good white shirt it would be
permanent "
 SPLIT
ROCK SUNSET
1996, 48" x 60"
One of my favorite subjects for pictorial quilts is lighthouses. The computer was used in
a couple of ways in designing this quilt. At the time, I didn't have a scanner, so I used
what a friend calls the "poor man's scanner". I traced the outline of the
important features onto a clear plastic notebook insert, taped that over my computer
monitor, got out my drawing program (Corel Draw!) and drew following the lines I had
traced. The resulting drawing was pretty rough, but good enough to give me the correct
proportions. This was printed in the desired size, tiling so that it printed on several
pages which I then taped together. I put tracing paper over this and continued the drawing
by hand. Secondly, I used one of the Mariner's Compass designs in EQ3 as a starting point,
printed it the desired size, and then started changing it. Since I wanted no curved lines
in the quilt, I re-drew the curves into straight lines, and extended the compass points to
the edge of the block to eliminate the setting circle. The same compass design was
enlarged (by hand) to form the background of the lighthouse. The border design was
inspired by an antique quilt which I saw at about the same time.
AUTUMN STROLL
50 x 65, 1995
machine pieced & quilted.
We live in a rural area of Michigan where wild turkeys abound. As my favorite season is
fall, this one is taking a stroll to enjoy the beautiful colors. Again the computer was
used to draw over a tracing of a turkey and printed to the size I wanted. The rest was
hand drawn.
 Learn more about Elsie Vredenburg
at her website at: QUILTS BY ELSIE
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