{"id":1618628,"date":"2025-07-03T15:08:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quiltfolk.com\/?p=1618628"},"modified":"2025-09-30T14:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:14:16","slug":"quilting-a-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quiltfolk.com\/journal\/quilting-a-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilting a Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Eva Saunders learned to sew, as many of us do, at her grandma\u2019s knee in the 1990s. A professional seamstress, her grandmother, Theresia, would keep an eye on Eva during summer breaks in her sewing room. Eva, the designer behind Gingerly Quilt Co, sewed buttons on scraps and pieced squares of fabric together, and over the years, her grandma taught her to make clothes, increasing the challenges with every passing summer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Eva spoke to <\/span>Quiltfolk<\/span><\/i> from her studio, while a curious kitty named Bobby tiptoed across her cutting table in the background. \u201cI stopped sewing in middle school when it wasn\u2019t cool to hang out with your grandma anymore,\u201d she said with a wry smile. But she carried the skills she learned with her, altering her own clothes throughout college. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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She began sewing in earnest again in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, when mask-making was all the rage. The recipient of a donation of bed sheets, she used the fabric to make many masks, and then, in 2021, she decided to make a quilt with the scraps left over in remembrance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u201cI made that one quilt, and I caught the bug,\u201d she said. \u201cI just kept going.\u201d She found the process relaxing, and it helped her recall fond memories of sewing with her grandmother. She later learned that, around the same time (in the early 2020s), her grandmother, then in her 80s, was also sewing masks. Theresia passed away in October of 2023, having bequeathed Eva with sewing skills to last a lifetime. \u201cI got a day to go look at her quilts and sewing room,\u201d she said. \u201cIt didn\u2019t feel like she was gone; it felt like she was still there. It was a big part of her life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Eva Saunders in her studio. Behind her is a quilt made by her German grandmother, Theresia Otten.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Eva began to build her skills by making quilts from patterns, and then, one day, her husband saw her cutting fabric and mentioned the \u201cpizza cutter\u201d she was using. After she explained that it was a rotary cutter, he excitedly asked if she could please make a pizza quilt.<\/span><\/p>

Inspired by Slice of Pi Quilts\u2019 Exploding Heart<\/em> quilt pattern (and with the designer\u2019s blessing), Eva created the <\/span>Exploding Pizza<\/span><\/i> quilt, first for her husband\u2014and then, as a pattern to sell in 2022. Now motivated to continue designing, Eva has since created different serialized patterns, with one motif having a pillow or bag to accompany the main quilt pattern.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t

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\u201cExploding Pizza\u201d quilt by Gingerly Quilt Co.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Initially attracted to illustrative designs like the <\/span>Exploding Pizza<\/span><\/i> or her Dainty Paws<\/em> pattern bundle, Eva wanted to experiment with more organic quilts because, as she put it, \u201cI\u2019m not a fan of squares.\u201d She decided to use fine art as inspiration. A lover of Romanticist and Impressionist paintings, she began to play with the idea of more free-form quiltmaking. Wanting to combine her love of quilting with her favorite artists, she decided to look at Monet’s <\/span>Water Lilies <\/span><\/i>series, a set of approximately 250 oil paintings of artist Claude Monet\u2019s garden at his home in Giverny, France. Monet\u2019s flowers directly inspired Eva\u2019s<\/span> Zen Blossoms<\/span><\/i> pattern, with pieced curved seams.<\/span><\/p>

Wanting to move further toward improv, Eva turned to Vincent van Gogh\u2019s 1889 oil painting <\/span>The Starry Night<\/span><\/i> next as inspiration. During the early stages of her exploration, Eva discovered that she could \u201cpaint\u201d with narrow strips of fabric and set about recreating a treasured work of art. Her quilt painting is a stunning recreation of <\/span>The Starry Night<\/span><\/i>\u2014each of van Gogh\u2019s swirling dabs of paint meticulously interpreted with fabric and thread. The night sky overlooks the tiny village nestled next to mountains, watched over by a bright moon.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t

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Eva holding her \"Starry Night\" quilt and wearing a blazer that she hand-embellished to match.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Some samples Eva made while planning the \u201cStarry Night\u201d quilt.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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More recently, Eva has merged her design, film, writing, and teaching backgrounds to create a self-paced online course where students can quilt their own \u201cpainted\u201d masterpieces. <\/span>Quiltfolk<\/span><\/i> was lucky enough to get a few tidbits of Eva\u2019s advice for quilters:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

  1. Acknowledge there is an artist in you! You are the one who decides whether you are an artist.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>
  2. Learn principles of art: composition, color, space, rhythm, etc.<\/span><\/li>
  3. Look at others\u2019 work. Art is 80% looking and 20% doing.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ol>


    Eva said of her work, \u201cI want to empower quilters to make something unique to them.\u201d Because sometimes quilting is more than just the quilt\u2014it\u2019s everything it depicts and also renders the artist’s thoughts, feelings, hopes, and dreams. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Carmen Schell has been with Quiltfolk<\/em> since June of 2020. She started as a production assistant, helping with scheduling, captions, and editing, but immediately began writing stories as well. She\u2019s loved meeting so many people and learning about their lives. Find Carmen on her\u00a0<\/span>Instagram<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Eva Saunders, the creative force behind Gingerly Quilt Co, traces her sewing roots back to summers spent in her grandmother\u2019s sewing room. After rediscovering quilting during the early days of the pandemic, Eva began designing playful and painterly quilts\u2014from an Exploding Pizza to fabric tributes to Monet\u2019s Water Lilies. Now blending her background in design, film, and teaching, she\u2019s launched a self-paced course to help others unlock their own artistic voices. For Eva, quilting is as much about self-expression as it is about stitches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47643,"featured_media":1618634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,235,85],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1618628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","category-off-the-pages","category-quilters"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nQuilting a Masterpiece - Quiltfolk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quiltfolk.com\/journal\/quilting-a-masterpiece\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quilting a Masterpiece - Quiltfolk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eva Saunders, the creative force behind Gingerly Quilt Co, traces her sewing roots back to summers spent in her grandmother\u2019s sewing room. 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