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 members stepped up and did their part. In polling just…
Linda Eisenhart Service always has been a centerpiece of the SaddleBrooke Friday Quilters activities. 2020 Service Co-Chairs Linda Crum and Janette Volz have been busy coordinating eight projects that benefit 10 different local groups! We proudly present our military family beneficiaries. Beth Bradford has been a SaddleBrooke quilter for the past eight years. She is a…
Linda Eisenhart The Friday Quilters Club has been around for almost 25 years and, in that time, members have made a significant impact on not only SaddleBrooke community residents, but the entire Tucson community. Two very special people formed a friendship that has had lasting effects on the Tucson healthcare community. Carol Zupancic belonged to…
Friday Quilt Club members Teri Caplener and Ann Stonecipher have organized SaddleBrooke quilters and sewists to make masks for local area hospitals and residents. They are looking for team leaders who can represent their units to collect fabric, sew, and make deliveries. They are using the Snug Face Mask pattern to make the masks and have…
Linda Eisenhart, publicity chair, and Kathryn Von Bargen, president If you missed the biannual 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…
Linda Eisenhart SaddleBrooke Friday Quilters have elected Kathy Von Bargen to lead their club in 2020. Kathy’s interest in quilting began with her mother who was a prolific seamstress and hand quilter. Her mother taught her to sew her own clothes but Kathy didn’t take up quilting until 1999 when she and her husband Wally…
Cathy Schaber Mark those brand-new 2020 calendars now for the SaddleBrooke Friday Quilters 2020 Quilt Show to be held on Sunday, March 1 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free for this fabulous show at the MountainView Ballroom, 38759 S. MountainView Boulevard. The room will be filled with over 100 quilts and quilted…
Varda Main The Quiltmama spoke at the Friday Quilters meeting on Sept. 13. The Quiltmama, as she is known on Facebook, is Jessica Dickinson of Tempe, and her passions are quilting, color, cooking, music, art, and math. Jessica gave a “trunk show” of her quilts, showing her progressions in color, design, and composition over time. Jessica…
Varda Main Meet Kelly Rospond, resident of the SaddleBrooke Friday Quilters. Kelly is now on the home stretch of her year as president and is still enjoying every minute of it. Kelly sees her presidency as not just a one-year term but rather as a part of helping the Friday Quilters grow (16 new members…
Varda Main Meet Carol Ann Small, also known as “CA.” CA’s a member of SaddleBrooke Friday Quilters and came from the architectural/engineering drafting world where everything’s precise, and straight lines are king. When she retired, she didn’t want to draw straight lines or use precise measurements any more. Although CA has been sewing since the…