18th July

Sarah's presentation about her 'Journey into quilts ' was very entertaining and supported by a range of her work.

Her interest in textiles and creativity comes from her family, father was a graphic designer and her mother knitted, however the family did not sew. Sarah saw pictures of quilts which led to her researching how to make them, she likes the simple lines and designs eg Bauhaus.

Sarah often works in linen, she tends to design and go her own way with things, making use of hand dyed fabrics and hand quilting. Her work features blocks of colour and she uses triangles, log cabin etc.

In 2016 she joined the quilters guild and now lectures, runs workshops, as well as providing help and advice. She also belongs to a modern quilters group in the USA, this changed her vision of quilts  she now attends and exhibits at the annual exhibition.

More recently Sarah has spent time making collages, she kept them separate from quilting. However she decided to take one of her collages as she thought it would make a quilt, cutting it up and using it as templates to make a quilt which she machine quilts in blocks, this was a sucessful experiment.