Sentimental Mini Quilt Workshop with Sarah Conklin

In this workshop, students will use their sentimental object as a reference for making their own Sentimental Mini Quilt. Through patchwork, applique, and binding techniques students will stitch their own one of a kind mini quilt.

This is space and time to be present and slow down while using your hands to slow stitch a piece of art.

Materials supplied by student: sewing needles (with eyes large enough for threads they will be using), thread (thinner for stitching binding & thicker for decorative stitching), ruler, pencil, pen (frixion pilot erasable pen – great for marking fabric and heat removes marks), scissors and snips, pins, sketchbook, sentimental object or photograph of object or drawing, fabric remnants for mini quilt front & back, 15 inches x 15 inches, plus fabric to make binding, batting or thinker fabric to use as batting

Materials supplied by instructor: Extra needles, some of my most used threads, freezer paper, iron, and ironing board

$60 per student

About the instructor;

Sarah Conklin was born in Poughkeepsie in 1970, she grew up in the tiny Hamlet of Frost Mills located in Staatsburg, NY. As a child, she spent her days learning and sewing alongside her mother on a cast iron portable sewing machine and exploring the woods and creeks around their family home in the Hudson Valley. In her 20s she wandered a bit. Then in 1996 she moved to Huntsville, AL, and now calls it home. She discovered a love of working with metals in high school and concentrated on metals in college. During college, she added printmaking to her skill set. Her love for making started early on as she saw her mother spend her free time with pastels creating beautiful illustrations along with many other creative endeavors. She has worked for a prominent local jeweler, at pottery studios and unschooled her kids. She was one of the founding members of a printmaking collective for 11 years. Where she found her way back to her roots in textiles. She uses discarded fabrics that she makes her own by adding original prints to them which rewrites their stories. With these fabrics she creates textiles to be used, loved, and to absorb memories of the user.