Sep 13, 2023 (Wed) Program: Bridget O’Flaherty “The Sustainable Quilter”
Bridget O’Flaherty is a renowned Canadian free-motion embroiderer, quilter and textile artist, teacher, speaker and podcaster. Known as The Sustainable Quilter, she shares her passion for sustainability and invites the quilting and textile art community to bring sustainability into their practice.
“I love the tactile nature of anything fibre and expressing a connection to the land. As a textile artist focusing primarily on free-motion thread painting in natural landscape designs, I “draw” with my sewing machine, building up layers of thread to create art that blends quilting, felting and stitching. I use combinations of local, up-cycled, recycled and organic materials and include botanical and natural dyes in my original works.”