Sarah Polster Tribble
Fiber Artist
Bio: Sarah is a quilter, mixed media artist, and fiber artist. Across mediums, her driving force is the same—to find beautiful reuses for discarded materials, coming as close to zero waste as possible.
On creative reuse: “When making mixed media, I use recycled magazines in a style that is similar to quilling. When making quilts, I aim to use old, unloved and unused fabrics in unexpected ways When I am knitting, I try to use up old, unused yarn, including experimenting with dying ugly yarn.”
On getting unstuck: “I start a different project. I always have about 5-10 projects going at any one time.”
On community: “I make charity quilts with a group of people at a friend’s church and I am a member of Block Party Quilting Guild based in Sammamish.”
On (geo)patterns: Sarah studied geology and earth science as an undergrad—and has a master’s in applied geosciences. So, she can tell you exactly the type of rock at the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, where she took a trip recently… that would be hexagonal columnar basalts.
On the water: Sarah is also a rower who coached middle school girls with Lake Sammamish Rowing Association.
Favorite place near Issaquah: “Lake Sammamish, but I am partial!”
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