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Quiltmaking | Crafting & Needlework | Bibliography | Resumé | Personal StuffThough born and raised in Baltimore, MD, Eleanor Levie (rhymes with Chevy) has a personality that is less Baltimore Album and more Crazy Quilt. Home is Center City Philadelphia, where she and the husband take walks all over town and rarely get in the car.
Eleanor is a fabric fanatic, scarfing up every technique she learned from the experts when she authored edited, and produced dozens of how-to quilting books, including the Rodale’s Successful Quilting Library series, Skinny Quilts & Table Runners I and II, Unforgettable Tote Bags, and Quilt Blocks Go Wild. American Quiltmaking: 1970-2000 is her history book, and the subject of a popular presentation, Magical History Tour, and her new program, Quilts as Art. After decades making lots of table runners, pillows, and tote bags, she then moved into art quilts. In that pursuit, she is hard-wired to push the envelope, incorporating recycled packaging and vintage textiles, unusual shapes for wall hung art quilts and 3-D vessels, various surface design effects, and personal and even political statements.
She has appeared on Quilting Arts TV sharing her techniques for weaving, bottle-sleeve quilted vases, and how to design a Skinny Quilt. A member of Studio Art Quilt Associates, Eleanor has had several of her quilt artwork juried into SAQA exhibitions -- global, regional, and virtual. She organized a juried, regional exhibition for SAQA-Pennsylvania honoring the 250th, called “Art Quilters Celebrate Independence,” which runs at four different Pennsylvania venues between June 2026 and late May of 2027.
Eleanor is always eager to hear the stories behind your quilt guild, and to meet quilters and admire their projects --- if only on Zoom!
See below for a list of exhibitions my art quilts have been juried into through Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) and other venues, plus awards my work has won.
Proud to have gained recognition for my art quilts!
2026:
Sanctuary City 2026: Exhibited in “Art Quilters Celebrate Independence” and featured in the catalogue
En Fleurs: Juried into Precious Protections at Da Vinci Art Alliance in Philadelphia.
2025:
Ringo Bingo: Juried into "Full Circle," a multi-media art show at The Mansion at Strathmore, Bethesda MD
Walkable: Juried into "Stumbling Around," a multi-media art exhibition at Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia PA
2024
Entangled: Juried into Art Quilt Elements 2024; presented with the SAQA award as compelling, dynamic, and innovative
2023
Higher Ground: Juried into Textiles Unleashed, a SAQA-PA show, and appearing in a juried exhibition on the pages of FiberArts Now, Fall issue
Outburst: Juried into Textiles Unleashed, a SAQA-PA show
2022
Spike the Cocka-TEA-l: Featured in Quilt Art Magazine's Fall issue challenge, Pop-Art Pet
Cautionary Measures: Juried into sustainABILITY, a global SAQA exhibition
Hibernating: Juried into Purpose/Repurpose, a SAQA regional show
2019
Trumpasaurus Rex and Grounds for Removal: Juried into a sculpture show called Subversive, at a local art alliance
Pitcher Picture: Featured in Quilt Art Magazine as selected for their Silver Linings challenge
Sanctuary City: Juried into the SAQA exhibition, 3-D Expression
2017
reUSE/REFuse: Juried into SAQA global exhibition Textile Posters
Tranquili-tea: Juried into Connect and Repair: Rejuvenating Work Made of Fiber, shown at the Capital Health Medical Center's Investor Art and Healing Gallery, in Pennington, NJ
2015
Tea Rex: Laura Wasilovski's Judge's choice at the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza
2014
Pomegranates: Awarded best use of color in a Wall Quilt at the Quilt Fest of New Jersey
The Universal Mother Speaks to Quilters: Honorary Mention in a Quilt Alliance Contest and Auction, "Inspired by..."
2011
Tahrir Square: Quilt Alliance Contest and Auction: Alliance, People, Patterns, Passion; honorary mention
ALSO: You can see my art quilts in these current SAQA virtual exhibitions