Sara Flynn is my special Guest!!

Learn about Sara... and get a glimpse into what she will share in the Webinar!

Sara Flynn is a prolific maker with many skills and interests. As a busy single mother of three young children, she finds time to create by adhering to her values of acceptance and self-compassion. Flynn is primarily a textile artist but is also known as a resourceful mixed-media piece creator.

 Flynn is a self-professed speed sewer, pushing her machine as fast as it can go while embracing mistakes in the finished pieces rather than turning back to change them. The work created embraces the imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. There are mistakes and imperfections in every piece she makes, left intentionally there so the piece can breathe. Flynn sources free and older forgotten materials to create new textile pieces, forcing herself to use what she has on hand instead of buying more. She can be seen collecting free scraps locally in Portland, Oregon, wrangling her three young children with her at odd places as she collects supplies.

While creating in the small bits of time she can carve out from the day mistakes happen in her work, she does not count them as failures and keeps moving forward; this lends her pieces to be a bit messy but always original. This is part of the beauty of her work and her life.  

 Sara uses traditional quilt-making techniques in a modern way to create textile artwork that can be beautifully displayed or used as a functional, cozy quilt. Having been sewing for over 30 years, she has learned classic quilting techniques and rules, using this knowledge base as a jumping off point to bend the rules in an effort to create new modern pieces that express her love of motherhood, old scooters, her time of service in the Navy, and making. 

Carole Lyles Shaw is well known for her modern quilts.
And, she also makes amazing Portrait and Celebration Quilts to commemorate special moments in family history and other events.

Carole will share how she develops a general design and theme for these special works.  Then, she will share examples of the types of thrifted and repurposed fabrics she uses and how she sources them.