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Machine pieced and longarm quilted

Machine pieced and quilted

A bag of scrap fabrics with some completed blocks and some extra fabric were left on the “free table” at a guild meeting. They were too pretty to not adopt. The digital pantograph quilting pattern is called Chit Chat by Heather Derksen.

After taking a class from Sujata Shah I leaned into her improvisational techniques. This is one piece that I made with wonky half square triangles. I really love how the solid color fabrics shimmer and the texture of the linen fabric adds an extra dimension. This one is fun to look at up close andContinue reading “Shimmer

Sarah Evans

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This began as a Medallion Sew Along guild challenge in 2016. 2016. Not a typo. Nine years in process isn’t *that* crazy. Quilted summer 2025 with a digital pantograph designed by Karlee Porter called Log Cabin Quake.

There is something very comfy to me about this type of scrap quilt. It’s not super fancy but it’s super cuddly! This began as a mystery quilt project in a retreat with my Mom, sister and cousin in 2012. The pieces have been in a bag haunting me for years. This summer they found themselvesContinue reading “Scrappy Rooster

Sarah Evans

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By using various shades of yellows and treating the blue elements in a scrappy way, this reinterpretation of a traditional block creates a stunning effect. This is the smallest version in this series.

By using various shades of yellows and treating the blue elements in a scrappy way, this reinterpretation of a traditional block creates a stunning effect. Also, this is an example of quilt math gone wild. I wanted to see how big I could make the blocks. Initially I was going to use them in aContinue reading “Gold Stars Blue Stripes

Sarah Evans

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By using various shades of yellows and treating the blue elements in a scrappy way, this reinterpretation of a traditional block creates a stunning effect. This smaller version using the same blocks is an example of how the placement of the blocks can dramatically change the look of the quilt. The digital pantograph quilt motifContinue reading “Spider Webs in Blue and Gold

Sarah Evans

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After taking a class from Sujata Shah I leaned into her improvisational techniques. This is one piece that I made with wonky half square triangles. I really love how the blue and green fabrics glow in relation to each other.

This was an orphan block from a quilt I made for my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary in 2015. It’s been floating around my studio and jumped onto the long arm to be quilted this summer!

There is something very comfy to me about this type of scrap quilt. It’s not super fancy but it’s super cuddly! This began as a mystery quilt project in a retreat with my Mom, sister and cousin in 2012. The pieces have been in a bag haunting me for years. This summer they found themselvesContinue reading “Scrappy Rooster

Sarah Evans

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Limited amounts of fabric cut into flying geese units create this quilt’s limited color palette. The center block with the flecks of gold? An example of using every last piece as the gold are parts of the fabrics’ selvage edge. The Dastardly Quilt Studio designed the digital quilting pattern called Beech Leaves.

Made by members of the Chicago Modern Quilt guild for the 2025 QuiltCon Community Outreach Quilt Challenge. Longarm Quilted by Amy Parker

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

Sarah Evans

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