Christianne Dettmann Come one, come all to the SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club’s Quilt Sale on Tuesday, Oct. 28, and Wednesday, Oct. 29! From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on both days, the Sunny Side Up Café at 15800 N. Oracle Road (just a few minutes south of SaddleBrooke) will graciously host this long-awaited event in…
Christianne Dettmann The SaddleBrooke Sunrise Rotary Club is excited to announce that its much-anticipated quilt sale will be held this coming Oct. 28 and 29 (Tuesday and Wednesday) at the Sunny Side Up Café in Catalina, Ariz. Located just south of SaddleBrooke at 15800 N. Oracle Road, the Café is graciously opening one of its…
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…