All About Sara

Sara M.Salt Lake City.Utah.34yo.

I have been quilting for about 15 years, with a lengthy break in there to explore knitting. I lived in San Francisco for 3 years, where it is always knitting weather, and a scarf is de rigueur. During that time, I had a non-reliable sewing machine, and an even less reliable living situation, so my fibers spent lots of time in boxes being moved from neighborhood to neighborhood. If I had but unpacked my fabrics, they would have seen the Western Addition, the Richmond, the Mission, Bernal Heights, Haight Ashbury, and Pacific Heights. Only my scarves, hats, and mittens ever accompanied me out of the house; together we walked packs of city dogs and combed the chilly beaches countless times.

I taught a few close girlfriends to knit right before I left SLC to live in SF. I struggled to find work in SF and was amazed to discover that one could indeed make a living teaching knitting (many of my students were children, as I was the teacher with the most patience for the very young). I was a shop-girl for one of the biggest yarn stores I’ve ever entered, ImagiKnit, and they sent me on so many private lessons. I traveled around, mostly by bike and bus, in my rain gear and super-dorky black helmet and saw some of the loveliest and grandest homes! I also walked dogs in the moss-drizzle, fog soup, the cake-knife wind, the crinkly sunlight, the near-warm salty breeze. I got chilled to my bones and didn’t warm up until Zach coaxed me away to Los Angeles.

I moved back to SLC in spring 2006 for family reasons, and in November 2007 I had something of a creative surge (following a 9-month slump during which I was unable to produce anything artistic–gestating a baby took all my juice!). When I started feeling creative again in 2008, I went so far as to start this blog.

I have taught:
Beginning and intermediate piecing for quilters
Foundation piecing
Hand appliqué
Beginning and intermediate knitting
Learning to read and follow knitting patterns
How to design and create knitted scarves, hats, mittens, and blankets

Other Hobbies:
Cooking and eating, reading, walking the dog, walking the baby, knitting on the bus

Fog? Christmas, 2008

Itchy Nose 10/28/08

knitting on the bus

tying fruit booter quilt

seaming the boogedy's sweater