Quilter of the Month — May 2008

In 1994 Sandra Samaniego took an adult education quilting class in Jersey City and made a sampler quilt. A year later she joined the Jersey City Quilters Guild — a small group of 20 or so members — and then joined Empire Quilters a few years later. She is also a recent member of Quilters of Color Network in New York.

Sandra has always liked work that was “outside of the box” — non traditional, contemporary, art quilts — the best. Sandra’s training is as a clinical psychologist. This past September she was able to work four longer days a week instead of five as at Lenox Hill Hospital Out Patient Center for Mental Health where she has worked for the past 28 years. Consequently, she has been able to complete lots of projects. Sandra is a much happier camper as a result. She also encourages and teaches patients with whom she works who express an interest in crafts to make quilts, dolls, etc. and provides them with fabric and yarn (from her stash). They find it helps them psychologically to feel less depressed, less anxious, have improved self esteem and to beautify their homes and lives.

Sandra is largely self taught but learns much from books and magazines as well as from craft and quilt shows on TV. She also visits lots of art galleries, quilt and craft shows. In addition to quilting Sandra creates altered books, dolls (she belongs to the Manhattan Doll Guild which meets at The City Quilter monthly), and incorporates other art/crafts techniques into her quilts (beading, painting, found objects, etc).

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Crayon Mandala	Primitives	Rorschach
Stamped and Woven	Parrot	Where's the Jacket?
Spin Art I	Spin Art II	Outer Space
Red Stripes	Tie-Dyed	Milagros
Pollock	Going to Town I	going to Town II
Little Bits I	Little Bits II	Little Bits III
Three Faces

Here are some works that Sandra showed at other guild meetings:

Mask I	Tote Bag	Robot
Pink and Blue	Each Day is a Gift	Embellished Piece
Crazy Wall Hanging	Parrot Feathers	God's Eye
Meltdown	Long and Winding Road	Winter Curvy Weaving
Sweatshirt Jacket	Sweatshirt Jacket	Sweatshirt Jacket
Jacket	Jacket	Robot Tote Bag
Goddess Circle Weaving	Snippets Abstract I	Snippets Abstract II
Mask II

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