Number One in Service Projects Barbara Barr Bengen and Wanda Bailey District Governor Sue Archibald just made her annual visit to the Rotary Club of SaddleBrooke. While visiting, she had two big announcements for our club. We were so excited to learn that our club was #1 in the district in service projects. We were…
Debora Witten SaddleBrooke Ranch has a long arm sewing machine in its quilting room in the Arts and Crafts Building. This is a sewing machine used to sew together a quilt top, quilt batting, and quilt backing into a finished quilt. This machine here at the Ranch puts our quilting residents at an advantage. Here…
Pictured is Tanya Fagetan, who started sewing when she was 6 years old. She took up quilting 15 years ago. (Photo by Debora Witten)
Quilter Monica Oszust has been quilting for almost 20 years. (Photo by Debora Witten)
Deborah Kirscht is pictured with one of her quilts. She has been quilting for over 25 years. (Photo by Deborah Witten)
SBR ARTwalk Artists The pottery wheels are spinning, the paint is flowing on the canvas, the paper is quilling, the beads are forming lovely jewelry, the wood shop is abuzz, and cameras are clicking as the SaddleBrooke Ranch (SBR) artists are preparing for the Spring SBR ARTwalk Studio Tour. This event has become one of…
Mary Shirey It all started in 2017 with a communitywide email asking for “anyone interested in quilting” to come to a meeting—and come they did! A few residents had hoped to meet other like-minded folks, but they never imagined 35 people would show up! Squeezed into the La Vista room that first day were the very…
Mary Shirey Anyone who knows a quilter can tell you that despite the challenges of the past two years, those sewing machines never stopped humming! During the pandemic, quilters nationwide reported that working at their hobby provided them a positive focus. When masks were in short supply, quilters across the nation answered the call. Many…
Linda Eisenhart, Publicity Chair and Kathryn Von Bargen, President Service has always been at the core of the SaddleBrooke Friday Quilters’ group activities and they currently have eight projects that benefit 10 different local groups! This month we are featuring our medical facility beneficiaries. When the call went out in SaddleBrooke for masks, Quilt Club…
Janet Storton In 2007, I met a group of women living in the rural mountains of Uganda while on a Medical Mission trip. They asked me to come back to teach them to sew and learn the art of quilting. I have been selling their quilts every year since, and return two to three times…