Welcome to my shop!
Many moons ago I fell in love with the Dead. At my very first show in 1994, I remember seeing beautiful hippie mamas spinning around in colorful dresses and I was hooked. I have been an artist my whole life and started painting the figure when I was 5 years old; my mother is an artist who owns an art school and I grew up in her art studio. Turning the kitchen into a beading room or a bedroom into a painting studio was normal in my house when I was a kid, so that's exactly what I did when I got back from my first mini-tour. Out with the dinning room and in with the sewing studio!
Way back in those days we didn't have YouTube to teach you how to make something, so I started experimenting. Needless to say, my first creations were kind of crazy! But slowly and surely my style started to evolve. Because I spent my whole life as painter, it was natural that I fell madly in love with appliqué. It is so awesome to actually wear a painting!
Patchwork by Sarah opens and closes with the seasons, my creative surges, and time off to work on other art projects. I make lots of visual art, I am the costume designer for the legendary performance artist Annie Sprinkle, I teach drawing and painting, I am a yogi, and I am an aerial dancer. I am always so happy when I have time to get back to creating garments filled with LOVE for beautiful kind people. I also get to give back to a cause that is very dear to me - I donate 5% of all of my profits to the Beagle Freedom Project. I am the proud mommy of a beagle who was rescued from a laboratory by BFP. You can check out their awesome mission to stop animal testing at www.beaglefreedomproject.com.
If you are here and my shop is closed, please don't fret! You can check back here, follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pintrest, or Google+ for updates and new stuff. My how times have changed!! :) You can find all of those social media links on my website www.patchworkbysarah.com.
Thank you for stopping by! I hope to cross paths with you soon!
Namaste, Love, and Peace
Sarah