Sandy Turner has been teaching quilt making for the past 20 years.  Drawing on her observations while helping quilting students chose fabrics for their quilt sampler, she kept hearing the same remark, "I Love the Fabric, But What Do I Do With It?"   The students would be describing pictorial type fabrics; i.e., large prints, landscape prints, floral prints, etc.  So began her study of pictorial fabrics in combination with traditional quilt patterns. 

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.   Sandy also has a "Classroom in a book" by the same name and can be purchased as an ebook.  Click here to learn more.

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.

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

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

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

Many thanks to this wonderful organization for this prestigious award. Click an image to enlarge. Click here to view the wonderful article the NQA published about Sandy.

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.  Click here to view/download the 2012 Brochure.