Sarah Evans
Machine pieced, Machine quilted on a frame (longarm) Can you find the Prairie Points? See how they point the the hot pink star bursting from the quilt top? I love those Prairie Points. Confession: Quilt tops sometimes “marinate” for years before they are made into a quilt. This is one such “late bloomer”. The topContinue reading “Starburst with Prairie Points
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Sarah Evans
Machine pieced, Machine quilted on a frame (longarm) Sometimes you just gotta sew. Long strips of fabric from a “jelly roll” pack of fabric are ideal for mindless yet mindful stitching. Once all the rows are sewn together now you have have fabric that you can cut apart again! The folly and fun of quilting:Continue reading “Pandemic Bars
Sarah Evans
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Sarah Evans
Machine pieced, Machine quilted on a frame (longarm) A small Fat Eighth pack of fabric from one of Janine Vangool’s Uppercase Fabric lines and a desire to play around with the Bargello technique of piecing led to this wall hanging. I also played with the quilting by generously overlapping a geometric design to create aContinue reading “Undercase Bargello
Sarah Evans
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Sarah Evans
Machine pieced, Machine quilted on a frame (longarm) I LOVE this quilt. It’s my go-to cuddle comfort quilt. The Cherrywood fabric paired with peppered cotton with a wool batting makes it so soft. It doesn’t cover our bed so there is a larger blueberry one coming soon! The quilting is my original free motion quiltingContinue reading “Raspberry Cuddles
Sarah Evans
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Sarah Evans
Machine pieced, Machine quilted on a frame (longarm) A visual experiment in Slash and Stitch Improvisational Piecing. Each pod of four fabrics is cut in a different way. Some pods have three cuts, some have four cut, some cuts were straight lines, some lines curved. Pure play. “Coping Strips” were used to puzzle them allContinue reading “Slash and Stitch Sampler
Sarah Evans
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Sarah Evans
Machine pieced, Machine quilted on a frame (longarm)_ As a quilt teacher I got tired of making all my example blocks for my Block Builder Class from dull, bland scrap fabric that I didn’t like. I wanted to *enjoy* sewing blocks together out of fabric that I like. So here it is! Each of theseContinue reading “Block Building Sampler
Sarah Evans
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Sarah Evans
Machine and Hand pieced, Machine applique, Hand applique, Hand-embroidered, Machine quilted on a frame (longarm). Blues. Gospel. Hip-hop. Jazz. Soul. Rock. And many more! All call Chicago home. Like this quilt, music and quilting are tools to bring people together. Together, Chicago Modern Quilt Guild members -during the pandemic- shared in our love of music,Continue reading “Sweet Home Chicago (in Vinyl) – A Community Quilt made by Chicago Modern Quilt Guild
Sarah Evans
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Sarah Evans
Machine pieced and quilted, faced binding. Coming Apart at the Seams was begun in late 2020 and finished in January 2021. It is made with 900 individual squares; the tiny piecing gave me a sense of control andpeace. As it came together the underside was far more interesting than the top. That’s what you seeContinue reading “Coming Apart at the Seams
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