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. :)

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 […]

Signature blocks

My local group is swapping signature blocks, and I thought it might be fun to show how simple they are to make. There are lots of different patterns around, but this is the one we’re using — and it could have been paper pieced, if you’d prefer. 1. For a […]

Second place

In all of my excitement about Jennie Rayment’s class and lecture, I almost forgot that our guild challenge took place on the same night as her lecture. I’d made this miniature (3″ blocks) using the two required fabrics, one of which was yellow dots on red and the other green […]