Earlier this, I was invited to participate in a very fun group quilt! Sarah Morris (@ruthlesslyhandmade) had the idea to gather a group of 8 quilters named Sarah or Sara and make an epic SARA(H)! quilt. Needless to say, I was instantly onboard.
We worked together to choose a bright, happy color palette and each person took a letter or punctuation mark. I volunteered to make the R, which I created with simple improv piecing. We each made our blocks without sharing them, and admittedly once I saw the letters everyone else made, I wished I had gone a little more maximalist!! Ha!
We each sent our blocks to Sarah M, who combined them into a banner-shaped quilt and basted it. From there, we mailed the quilt around the country and each person added their own bits of hand quilting. I was the second or third person to receive it (in July), and squeezed in my portion of the quilting before we went to North Carolina. This is what it looked like after I was done:
I added something to every block, sometimes a little and sometimes more. On the first A, I did echo quilting around the raindrops. On the second A, I added cross stitches to several of the small nine-patches.
The participating Sara(h)s, in order of how the blocks appear in the quilt, were:
- @sarahgoerquilts
- @noodleandbee
- Me!
- @sarahb_sews
- @ruthlesslyhandmade
- @sarahjeanmakes
- @sarabquilts
- @sarah_made
Our leader Sarah Morris submitted this for the group category at QuiltCon. How fun would it be to see it hanging in Raleigh?! But no matter what, I really enjoyed being a part of this quilt and getting to work with a few new-to-me Sara(h) friends in the quilt world.
I love the inclusion of the parenthesis and that you all had a chance to add hand quilting details. Good luck with it as a QuilCon submission!
I really think your minimalist R balances all the other maximalist letters. I love the group project.
This is such a fun group project!
This is delightful. The whole thing.