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. :)

And more yum …

Can you stand another foodie photo? After all, I did call this “Quilting and more…”. So, I made some cheddar cheese biscuits to go with our chili con carne tonight — it’s a new-to-me biscuit recipe, and they were pretty good, if you can judge by how many my husband […]

Yum!

I’ve had a KitchenAid mixer for several years, but it died. It wasn’t its fault, of course — it was a casualty of our move ten (almost eleven) years ago. Two days ago, my new mixer arrived, and it’s a beautiful cobalt blue! Today I gave it its first little […]

Quiet

I’ve been quiet lately, and I don’t even have anything to show for it! What’s been going on? It’s nothing anyone except me would ever see, but I had to do some “rearranging” of web stuff. I have my own domain (the bit you type after the @ in emails […]

Spring is springing!

Spring here doesn’t last long — sometimes as little as a few days. However, right now we’re really enjoying gorgeous weather, though we’re going to have a bit of a cool snap at the beginning of the week. Green is sometimes a bit difficult to find here in the desert, […]

First blocks

I was able to begin making the blocks for my Winding Ways quilt today! It’s going to take a long while to finish this quilt, as there are to be 99 blocks and each one takes some time, given that there are twelve pieces, all with curved seams. These four […]