Recycled Style. A Story of Saving The Planet
Sandra Streeter Textiles.
My business is small as I don’t have the capacity to produced big volumes but everything I do I put part of my heart and Soul in it, I design slow stitching kits, fabric collages, small quilts, and junk journals using upcycled and recycled papers and fabrics, I also facilitate textiles and mix media workshops at different venues but mainly at Midtown makes who open the doors for me and my little venture.
The ideas and inspirations that I like to work are always around me, I am inspired by people, buildings, animals, the Natural world in general, or some specific piece of fabric, normally with a flower, as a starting point. Flowers surprise me every time I look at them, I am never tired of them, I think I was a flower in another life.
I don’t look for perfection because I believe there is beauty in the imperfection, I am not a perfectionist, but I am obsessed with what I do. I work in an intuitive method, I also like to be creative using traditional methods and techniques, planning, and designing.
I came to live in Northern Ireland in 2015, fully in love with my husband who is my support and partner in crime and two of my three beautiful children. I was diagnosed with a very debilitating illness in 2013 and that changed my outlook on life reducing me completely, but because I have a learned to do sewing when I was young that is being my way to fight and keep going doing art as a therapy and hopefully my hobby business. I am very blessed to live in the countryside which allows me to be inspired and doing what is my great passion, caring for the environment.
I love the landscape, the people, strong colours (as my roots are in South America), all that blend is what helps me to transform unwanted textiles into something functional, expressive, beautiful, and valuable.
The ideas and inspirations that I like to work are always around me, I am inspired by people, buildings, animals, the Natural world in general, or some specific piece of fabric, normally with a flower, as a starting point. Flowers surprise me every time I look at them, I am never tired of them, I think I was a flower in another life.
I don’t look for perfection because I believe there is beauty in the imperfection, I am not a perfectionist, but I am obsessed with what I do. I work in an intuitive method, I also like to be creative using traditional methods and techniques, planning, and designing.
I came to live in Northern Ireland in 2015, fully in love with my husband who is my support and partner in crime and two of my three beautiful children. I was diagnosed with a very debilitating illness in 2013 and that changed my outlook on life reducing me completely, but because I have a learned to do sewing when I was young that is being my way to fight and keep going doing art as a therapy and hopefully my hobby business. I am very blessed to live in the countryside which allows me to be inspired and doing what is my great passion, caring for the environment.
I love the landscape, the people, strong colours (as my roots are in South America), all that blend is what helps me to transform unwanted textiles into something functional, expressive, beautiful, and valuable.