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. :)

A special block

I subscribe to the Carol Doak Yahoo group, which has several thousand members. Carol has taught classes in all 50 states, as well as many foreign countries. To mark the occasion of having “hit” all 50 states, the members of her group are making her a quilt with star blocks […]

New toy

I have to admit that I haven’t been doing any quilting for the past few days. In case you’re now wondering why, it’s because I’ve been playing with a new “toy”. 😉 My birthday was last month, and my gift was placed into my hands just this past Friday. It […]

Update

I showed you the backpack I made for our granddaughter, but she wasn’t allowed to have it quite then (parental bribery involved here ). However, last night they came over so I could give her the backpack. She’d had no idea I’d made her a backpack, and her little face […]

Sidetracked briefly

Yes, I know I’m supposed to be working on my Winding Ways quilt, but things sometimes pop up unexpectedly. 😉 In this case, I happened to see an adorable pattern online yesterday and just couldn’t resist. You see, my little granddaughter is about to start preschool later this month, and […]

Sunday’s progress

I worked on/played with two different things on Sunday. First, my Winding Ways quilt is coming along. I now have four rows put together! 🙂 Once I’d done that, though, I decided that I really really needed to make a couple of pot holders. Some of mine are in very […]

Back to it

It’s still hot, but I couldn’t stand it any longer; I just had to do something about my Winding Ways quilt. So today I laid out all of the blocks, trying — not always successfully — to keep the same fabric from being in any two adjacent blocks. I’ll be […]