Information about Sandy Turner

Sandy Turner is a National Quilt Association Certified Teacher. She was selected to be the NQA Certified Teacher of the Year in 2004-2005.

She also founded the Santa Maria Valley Quilt Guild in 1991 and has co-chaired three of their quilt shows in Santa Maria.

Sandy has been teaching quilt making for the past 20 years.
In the October 2003 issue of Quilters’ Newsletter Magazine, her article, entitled “I Love the Fabric, But What Do I Do With It?” was published. Another article of the same title is due to appear in QUilters' Newsletter on the subject of design and construction techniques involved in the Around the Twist traditional quilt with pictorial fabric.

She currently teaches the Empty Spools Conferences located at Asilomar, where she was honored to be selected as Artist in Residence in 2000.

Sandy has had her quilts juried into Paducah in 1999 and 2000. She has won ribbons at the Marin Needlecraft Shows, which included Best in Class, Judge’s Choice, and First Place awards. Her quilt, Harry the Heron, appeared in the 2001 Quilt Art Calendar book published by the American Quilters’ Society.

Once a year she puts on a conference in Cambria, California, at the Cambria Pines Lodge entitled, Out of Hand and Heart, A Quilt Retreat, where she hires three to four art/quilt instructors for the four day event.

More information is available here on SandyTurner.com