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…
Tag: quilting
Front Page, October 2022
Asked, and Answered!
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…
Clubs & Classes, February 2022
Keep Calm and Quilt On
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…
Clubs & Classes, July 2020
Quilters Support Local Healthcare Workers & Patients
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…
Features, July 2020
Work in Africa: Mercy Angels Quilt
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…
Clubs & Classes, April 2020
Wow, What a Show!
Linda Eisenhart, Publicity Chair and Kathryn Von Bargen, President If you missed the bi-annual SaddleBrooke Quilt Show held at the MountainView Country Club on March 1, you missed out on unbelievable talent, dynamic demonstrations, an award-winning raffle quilt, and a bodacious boutique! President Kathy VonBargen remarked that with over 650 attendees, the club’s show netted…
Front Page, February 2020
SBR Piecemakers Community Outreach Quilts
Lorraine Smith The Ranch Piecemakers adopted La Casa de Paz as the beneficiary for its community outreach project during 2019. During the year, Piecemaker members stitched together over 28 quilts which were donated to this women’s domestic violence shelter in Pinal County. In addition, CJ Kerley spearheaded a Holiday Clothing Drive and drove over to…
Front Page, October 2019
Ranch Piecemakers quilt raffle tickets on sale
Cheryl Murray Do you feel lucky? You don’t need a lucky charm or a four-leaf clover; you just need to buy a raffle ticket (or two, or ten, or twenty) to have a chance of winning this year’s Ranch Piecemakers raffle quilt. It is breathtakingly beautiful, and it could be yours. This quilt embodies everything…
October 2018
Quilting Bees and so much more
We’re in! The wait is over. The Ranch Piecemakers are up and running in the Needs Arts Room. We already have a number of members trained on the long-arm machine, which means the stack of pieced quilts destined for the Tucson Veterans Home are getting their finishing touches. Classes are being held for beginning quilters…
August 2018
A labor of love
Do you have an interest in learning how to quilt but you don’t have a clue of where to begin? Then please keep reading! When I received a call from my daughter Kati about making a tee shirt quilt for her husband, I didn’t know how to respond. I had made baby quilts 40 years…