Who’s Who in Pieced - Sandy Gard

My sweet sister quilter, Sandy Gard, is a native Californian, born in Oakland and lives now in San Leandro! Wow what a world traveler.

In 1980, Sandy began quilting with Linda Cumming. Kathy Honeycutt was one of the STUDENTS!  Can you imagine! Having Kathy as a classmate! She began quilting because she finally has some free time. She went to class, scheduling around her kids school time. She did interrupt her quilt time when she worked full-time but soon came back to us in 2000.

After retiring, she stayed in the Tuesday evening class at San Lorenzo Adult School and joined Pieced Together Quilters when Joan Penrose mentioned the group. Sandy and Joan had been in Donna Sorenson sewing class so they are old friends too! 

Married a very long time to the best guy in the world, Rich and Sandy enjoy life together. They have four children, seven granddaughters and on very spoiled grandson! Kyle is her most handsome and favorite grandson.

Her other hobbies are knitting, – cleaning her sewing room - color me shocked -, yoga and hiking. She uses hiking poles – we’re talking hard core! OK, hubby is hard core, Sandy is a moderate hiker. She loves all the other things we all enjoy, reading, cooking and gardening. She tries to force herself to stay in bed until 6:30AM, but that doesn’t always work. (Sounds like Martha Stewart).

A little know fact about Sandy is she rescued her nieces’ retainer out of a public restroom – Sandy says her sister still owes her big time.  She reached right in, grabbed that device and gave it back to the poor kid who had just barfed it up!

Sandy told me about the on-line shop hop – where I won the $10 prize THREE times. Sandy has won $100 prize on the on-line hop AND a free sewing machine on a local shop hop. Next time I’ll sit beside her when I Bunny-Hop through the on-line shops.