Walking on Sunshine

Walking on Sunshine Various fabrics and thread, machine pieced and quilted by Sarah Atlee, 2016 66 x 56 inches

I absolutely love working with donated fabrics. You get a bunch of things that were never meant to go together, and you make them go together.

Walking on Sunshine is headed to the Community First! village, an innovative housing solution in Austin, TX.

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Current Blocks for Art of the Month at Current Studio

Current Block 4: Eccentric Orbit Various fabrics and thread, machine pieced and quilted, 8.5" x 8" 2016 by Sarah Atlee

EDIT: I created this series of mini quilts for an Art of the Month Club at the former Current Studio gallery in Oklahoma City.

Sarah Atlee was the January 2017 Featured Artist for Art of the Month at Current Studio!

I am making a series of unique improvisational quilts, 8 to 9 inches square, exclusively for Current Studio.

Current Studio features a different artist each month for their subscribers. Sarah Atlee's art was featured in January 2017.

Dot Dot Dash

In Dot Dot Dash, I set out to explore visual rhythms. We know that I love stripes. Turns out, I love dots too.

I had so many fun fabrics to choose from. Some donated to the Community First! Quilters, some I purchased myself. In particular, I've been in love with this Dottie Jean Jacket print by Rashida Coleman-Hale for Cotton + Steel.

Does it get any better than strip-piecing?

So much fun to quilt this thing!

Aah, texture.

On the back: cream-colored flannel, and a variegated blue thread.

Along one edge, Community First! is spelled out in Morse code, using buttons. Light buttons for dashes, dark buttons for dots.

Dot Dot Dash was donated to the Community First! village, an innovative housing solution in Austin, TX.

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Piece of Pie

Piece of Pie is a quilt completed in 2016 for an expert pie-baker (and her new baby).

I love improvisational curves! There's so much room to make mistakes.

Banana-shaped free-motion quilting to go with the upcycled sock monkey bedsheets.

Quilting lines, seen from the back.

The seal of approval.

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Still Life Paintings at Magnolias

Manhattan. Acrylic on unstretched canvas, 30 x 30 inches, 2015 by Sarah Atlee. $1,800 For purchase inquiries, contact Ro2 Art at (214) 803 9597 or visit this piece on Artsy.

Are you in or about Dallas, looking for the perfect cup of coffee? Look no further than Magnolias Sous le Pont. And while you're there, enjoy a gathering of succulent still life paintings by Sarah Atlee!

Put this on your calendar for next year (and every year): September 29 is National Coffee Day. Magnolias celebrated this year with a day of music, art, and endless cups of that heavenly brown nectar. They were also nice enough to interview me about my work and process.

Still Life will be up at Magnolias (map link) through 7 January 2017.