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Ellen Highsmith Silver
Decoupage
 Like most little girls, Ellen’s first textile design experience involved weaving pot holders on a square metal loom using stretchy cotton loops. Ever since, she has been hooked on the broad medium of textiles. Working with fabrics has always been an important part of her life, so it stands to reason that this fabric fanatic would discover a unique new use for Mod Podge, a product normally associated with paper crafting.
Ellen came up with the concept of floorquilts in answer to a question: How can textile art and textile-chewing pets coexist in the same space? Floorquilts offered a creative solution, as well as a new frontier of fabric crafting for Ellen to explore. Since that initial inspiration, Ellen has created many beautiful and durable textile crafts using Mod Podge and has refined the virtually error-proof technique, giving new hope to budding crafters with a passion for fabrics but no sewing skills.
When she’s not giving lessons at the Quilt Cottage in Mamaroneck, Ellen lives in Rye, New York, with her husband, Mitch, and their two dogs, Broadway and Charlie. Ellen and her family, human and otherwise, hope that making and living with floorquilts will give you and your family many reasons to smile.
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