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Sarah Atlee
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potholders at sarahatlee.com/store 🧶 quilting 🧵 drawing 🎨 reading 📚 napping 🛌 overthinking 🧠

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Flowers for Persephone, collage edition. in honor of quilting associate Laura Hartrich.
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#collage #art #quilts #FlowersForPersephone
eleven imperfect hexagons, each subdivided into six smaller imperfect hexagons. these are made from cut and pasted magazine pages, junk mail, packaging, and other ephemera. the abstract "flowers" are haphazardly arranged on a table covered with a white flannel sheet.
February 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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got em
a patchwork quilt by artist Sarah Atlee. Titled "Rolling Plain", this wall-hanging quilt is inspired by landscapes of the Western United States, and the woodcut prints of Gustav Baumann. The quilt is an irregular rectangle shape measuring approximately 42 by 47 inches.
January 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Documentation day! not my favorite step of the creative process, but needs must. Getting good photos of the quilt in slide 1 so I can deliver it to my client!
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this is a progress report and accountability request.
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#art #quilt
detail photo of a patchwork quilt including cotton fabrics in blue, off-white, orange, gold, and purple. The stitch pattern on this quilt resembles a topographic map. photo of Sarah's studio, aka living room. in the foreground a wood table is visible with two studio lights attached to it. in the background is a white flannel design wall, with various pieces of cotton fabric stuck on it. Sarah uses a pair of Dazzne D50 lights in the process of documenting her quilts. Here the back of one light is visible with its various controls.
January 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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photo of the book It's Not Hysteria: everything you need to know about your reproductive health but we're never told. this book is by Dr Karen Tang, MD, MPH.
January 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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if ever there was a day for a bubbling pot of steel-cut oats, this is it.
photo of a glass-top stove with a hot pot of oatmeal cooking. to the right there is a stainless steel measuring cup, and ceramic dishes holding a pepper grinder and salt.
January 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Saturday stitches. #quiltsky #artsky
close-up photo of a white pillowcase embellished with hand stitches made with red thread.
January 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Welcome to 2025. here is my guiding thought for this moment: meet resistance with curiosity and compassion.
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materials: marker, colored pencil, and fabric collage in sketchbook.
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#drawing #sketchbook #artsky
Photo of a page from Sarah's sketchbook with the phrase "meet resistance with curiosity and compassion" drawn in brown, purple, green, and gold ink. this illustration is embellished with pink, gold, and teal ink and colored pencil. behind the sketchbook, Sarah's coffee table with drawing tools on it is visible.
January 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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me & my pal relentlessly dodging agendas
Selfie of Sarah with her elderly Chihuahua companion, Flower. Flower is wearing a green and white hoodie and a purple collar. Sarah is wearing a black fleece jacket. in the upper left corner the words "MOON MILK" are barely visible.
December 28, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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the still-in-progress and the just-finished. #quiltsky
two quilts draped over the back of a sofa. on the left is a wholecloth quilt made from a white pillowcase quilted with red thread. on the right, a patchwork quilt made from cotton and flannel fabrics in greens and blues. lines of hand quilting in dark blue thread are visible.
December 21, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Blade Runner 2049 was a good vibe for sewing this afternoon.
a view of Sarah's messy sewing studio. in the left foreground a laptop displays a still from the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049. the right foreground and middle ground show piles of fabric and quilt batting. in the background, a fireplace, iron, and tissue box are visible.
December 18, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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that's a wrap! quilt top, quilt backing, and batting ready to take to the longarmer.
a pile made of two bundles of folded-up fabric on top of a fluffy white quilt batting. the stack is ready to take to the longarm quilter, but for now, is sitting on my ironing table.
December 18, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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look at that, I did it. it may be a super weird shape, but this quilt top is in one piece. now on to the backing!
A large improvisational patchwork quilt top, about 67 by 59 inches. a quilt top is one layer of a quilt that will soon be stitched together with batting in the middle and more fabric on the back. Sarah Atlee made this quilt top with many colors of fabric, including pink, gold, blue, green, orange, red, purple, and off-white. the quilt top is on a white flannel background. Detail view of a large improvisational patchwork quilt top, about 67 by 59 inches. a quilt top is one layer of a quilt that will soon be stitched together with batting in the middle and more fabric on the back. Sarah Atlee made this quilt top with many colors of fabric, including pink, gold, blue, green, orange, and off-white. the quilt top is on a white flannel background.
December 18, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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accountability request: by 5pm central U. S. time today I will have resolved the middle bit on this quilt top.
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if I haven't, I need someone to say WHAT ABOUT THAT MIDDLE BIT SARAH
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#quilts #quilting #QuiltSky #ImprovQuilting #QuiltCommission
an improvisational patchwork quilt that Sarah Atlee is currently working on. many pieces of fabric are sewn together but there is an unresolved gap down the middle.
December 18, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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may I suggest girl breakfast.

p. s. Ritz cracker + peanut butter + raisins/dried blueberries = flavor revelation
a plate of food comprised of apple slices and Ritz crackers topped with peanut butter and raisins and dried blueberries. in the lower right a cup of coffee is visible. this girl breakfast is sitting on a faux wood table with paper napkins strewn about.
December 13, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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just got a new quilt back from the quilter! can't wait to share the whole thing. this improv quilt is inspired by West Texas landscapes and the prints of Gustave Baumann.
Detail photo of a patchwork quilt. The fabric colors include cream, lavender, gold, teal, brown, and yellow green. The quilting stitches form patterns similar to topography.
December 11, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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fabulous use for scraps. I have a bucket of scraps that I use to make improv potholders.
a pile of patchwork potholders made by Sarah Atlee using every color of fabric.
December 8, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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even the folks at the retirement community know that Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
a wall placard in the shape of a ticket stub proclaims "Movie Night now showing Die Hard". to the left there are boxes for the screening date (left blank) theater (1:00) and seat (any).
December 6, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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I have a whole lot of quilted potholders in my inventory, ready to ship now! www.sarahatlee.com/store
a pile of quilted potholders made from scrap fabrics by Sarah Atlee.
December 6, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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stitching. experimenting. using a pillowcase with a hole in it. gonna make that spot a super important focal point. quilting. arting.
photo of a white pillowcase, folded over, with visible hand-stitching in red thread. a sashiko needle is stuck through the fabric for safe keeping.
December 3, 2024 at 3:09 AM
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I'm on vacation and I didn't bring any sewing with me, but I can draw pictures of quilts in my sketchbook.
a top-down photo of Sarah's sketchbook. on the upper left is a postcard of a Gee's Bend quilt. on the lower right is Sarah's interpretive drawing of that quilt. in the upper right there are markers visible.
November 29, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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loved the Quilty Nook workshop yesterday with Elta Kaul! learned darning, seed, and fly stitches. ready to add these to my hand quilting repertoire 🧵

thanks @zakfoster.bsky.social 🌻
close up of a white pillowcase with various stitches in red thread. safety pins are holding the fabric layers together. close up of a white pillowcase with various stitches in red thread. safety pins are holding the fabric layers together. close up of a white pillowcase with various stitches in red thread. safety pins are holding the fabric layers together.
November 23, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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me and the Dowager Viscountess really got the juice out of our day.
in this mirror selfie, Sarah is holding an elderly Chihuahua. they wear matching black and white sweaters. Flower, the elderly Chihuahua, sits on couch cushions while wearing a black and white sweater. behind her is a patchwork quilt in progress. Flower, the elderly Chihuahua, sits on couch cushions, having crawled partway out of her too-big sweater.
November 21, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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hellooo! 👋
November 20, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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she immediately crawled out so basically worth it
an elderly Chihuahua sitting on the couch with a too-large sweater around her lower half an elderly Chihuahua sitting on the couch with a too-large sweater around her lower half
November 20, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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think it might be time for this kitchen towel to retire and re-enter the world as an art object. might make it into a quilt. what do y'all think?
November 18, 2024 at 6:34 PM