Our Founders & Creators
Vibras Bonitas
Sandra is the creative brain behind Vibras Bonitas and one half of the magic at The Stitch House. Her love for sewing and crafts started early learning to make small projects with her grandma, who taught her that creativity, patience, and a little trial-and-error go hand in hand.
Like many people, Sandra found her way back to embroidery years later during the slow return to normal after COVID-19, when she took a workshop with Lizbeth and remembered just how grounding and joyful making things by hand could be. One project turned into another, and before she knew it, Vibras Bonitas began to take shape.
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Lizbeth Sanchez Pineda:
Multidisciplinary artist with experience in community theatre and dance education on both sides of the border. She graduated with a bachelor’s in graphic design from Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez and a master’s in education from Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Since 2018, she became a self-taught embroiderer and fiber artist, documenting and sharing her creative endeavors on Instagram as CushiCushi915.
In 2021, she started setting up at local art shows and markets, designing, creating and selling DIY kits and embroidery patterns as well as exhibiting work at local galleries. She was one of the 25 selected US winners of the Joann Craft Stores Minority Program Grant in 2021.
Since 2022, she has taught children, teens, adults, seniors and people with different abilities how to find joy in hand embroidery and fiber art. She has led classes and workshops at different local businesses, as well as with the El Paso Museum of Art, the Mexican American Cultural Center, the Las Cruces Museum of Art, the EPCC Papagayo Project and at the Socorro Independent School District.
Her main inspirations are traditional Mexican embroidery, El Paso and Ciudad Juárez desert landscapes, migration and the unique “in the between” experience that comes with growing up immersed in the Frontera (border) culture, which refers to living in a liminal space of duality and hybridity.