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. :)

Cosmic Happenings

With various things happening around here, I almost forgot to post the photos of a finished quilt! This is Cosmic Happenings, parts of which I posted during the construction. Now it’s finished and all ready to be given to its recipients. 🙂 Each of the four blocks is 14″ square, […]

Some handwork

I bought a pattern at our local quilt show last week, and today I decided to begin work on it. After all, I don’t feel like going anywhere, since my adorable little QI (quilt inspector) is feeling very under the weather today. Actually, I’d planned to give her a clipping, […]

Biscornu

Biscornu is the name of a specific type of pin cushion, and it really intrigued me when I saw the instructions. It starts out as two squares of fabric, but it ends up having eight sides! The more traditional ones have counted cross stitch as the squares, but they can […]