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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

Sarah Evans

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Machine pieced, longarm quilted

Machine pieced and long arm quilted

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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