Sandy

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I'm a retired high school French teacher from Arizona, now living in the Las Vegas area. I loved teaching French, but I love retirement even more! I'm a quilter, and most of what you see here will be about quilting, though I've also taken up knitting, and I love to bake. :)
Paper-pieced quilt block showing a yellow and orange canary standing on a brown branch with green leaf against a blue background.

Yet another project

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Yes, I know — I have two block-of-the-month projects going, but I needed something to work on at our guild’s (sort of) monthly sewing days. One of the BOM projects is too quick for an all-day session, and the other requires my embroidery module; there’s not enough room for that […]

Machine embroidered and appliquées block showing a pink house with red roof sitting on a lawn and with a topiary tree on each side.

Block #2

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This is the second block in the year-long BOM I’m doing through my local quilt shop. It’s by Riley Blake and is all done in the hoop with machine embroidery and machine embroidered appliqué. I must say that, though this isn’t a style that usually appeals to me, I do […]

Iridescent sticker/skin applied to the face of a large sewing machine. Colors vary from pink to purple and bits of gold and green.

My gorgeous Bernina!

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A couple of years ago, when I traded in my lovely Bernina 790Plus in favor of the Bernina 790Pro , the only thing I was a bit sad about was losing the beautiful “skin” I’d purchased for it. Unfortunately, the lady who had been making a wide variety of skins […]

Zippered bag in purple/pink floral fabric with black zipper. Quilted feathers are all over the bag.

Another bag

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I am absolutely crazy about this bag pattern. I’m not sure why, exactly, but it really is nice that it opens up into a flat “tray” for handy access. That’s really nice when I need to just toss some things to the side for easy use later. This is the […]

Another one?!?

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After not having done a BOM in years, I’m suddenly doing two! I saw an adorable quilt at my LQS, made with small blocks in machine embroidered appliqué. It’s not a style I’d usually choose, but somehow I couldn’t pass this one up. We’ll be purchasing the supplies for one […]