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. :)

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 […]

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, […]