Sara Stephen

Quilting My Family Tree

My passion is quilting and I use my scissors to cut up fabric and then I sew it back up in a myriad of patterns. As a young girl I thought that quilting was something that only grownups could do. I would thumb through the worn pages of my Mom’s quilting books to admire the beautiful patterns and I relished the quiet moments sitting with my Grandma Nancy at her kitchen table watching her hand sew. The needle making graceful dives into the fabric between her nimble fingers. Fabric pieces joining together was magic to me and It wasn’t until I was much older that Grandma Nancy offered to give me small sewing lessons during our holiday visits to Pennsylvania.