Guild Archives

Blue Green Shimmer

Sarah Evans

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.

Floating: A Green Feather

Sarah Evans

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!

Soft Geese

Sarah Evans

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.

Community Bar

Sarah Evans

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

“Wagner” Little Quilt

Kathleen Field

Paper collage transferred to fabric, machine quilted, added yo-yos. This collage is one of a series of composers. I learned this collage technique 20 years ago but renewed my interest in transferring to little quilts.

“Beethoven” Little Quilt

Kathleen Field

Paper collage transferred to fabric, machine quilted, added yo-yos. This collage is one of a series of composers. I learned this collage technique 20 years ago but renewed my interest in transferring to little quilts.

“Vivaldi” Little Quilt

Kathleen Field

Paper collage transferred to fabric, machine quilted, added yo-yos. This collage is one of a series of composers. I learned this collage technique 20 years ago but renewed my interest in transferring to little quilts.

“Chopin” Little Quilt

Kathleen Field

Paper collage transferred to fabric, machine quilted, added yo-yos. This collage is one of a series of composers. I learned this collage technique 20 years ago but renewed my interest in transferring to little quilts.

Strata

Maureen Ivy Fisher

Needle felted dyed sheep’s wool. I paint with fiber. Colored sheep’s wool is the paint on my palette. A sheet of felted wool is the canvas. And the needle is my paint brush. I blend and layer colored wool to achieve desired hues, tones, and gradations, and I build wth it to add a sculpturalContinue reading “Strata

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Roundabout

Nona C Flores

Design from Donna Jordan of Jordan Fabrics video tutorial. Custom longarm machine quilted by Sue DiVarco. (Machine pieced, machine quilted.)

Stars in Strips

Nona C Flores

This is my first red, white and blue quilt in over 35 years of quilting. I really liked the strong graphic in Lisa Bongan’s “American Outlander” pattern. Custom long-arm machine quilting by Sue DiVarco. (Machine pieced, machine quilted.)

Stella

Nona C Flores

The elephant is named Stella for a character in the book “The One and Only Ivan”. Pattern “Elephant Abstraction” is by Violet Kraft. Custon longarm quilting by Sue DiVarco. (Foundation pieced, machine quilted.)

Hot Doggie-ties

Nona C Flores

Pieced, raw edge applique. Machine quilting; longarm quilting by Sue DiVarco. For my “kids” – Tootsie and Elvis – whose photo is on the quilt label. “The Dachshund Family: by Anne-Marie Saudo, Quiltmania Issue 142 (Mar-Apr 2021)

Embellished Coat

Nona C Flores

Embroidery, sashiko, boro, yo-yos. I purchased this coat with the intent to embellish it, but didn’t really get the motivation until Lisa Binkley’s “Beyond Boro” NSNG class in November 2022. Embellishments are original designs. The coat was made by Susan Eastman.