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. :)

Evening bag

A friend of mine showed our quilting group a lovely evening bag she’d made, and I fell in love with it; it just about matches a Bargello jacket I’d made not long ago. My friend kindly loaned me the bag for an upcoming special occasion, as well as the pattern […]

I did it!

Hmmm … what’s this? Could it be …? Yes!!!! I braved the heat and finished up the last of the Winding Ways blocks for my quilt. 😀 This is what a stack of 104 blocks looks like. 😉 Here’s a better photo, though, showing all eight fabrics I used. Each […]

These are good …

Have I mentioned that my sewing room faces due west? Have I mentioned that I live in the desert and that it’s hot here in the summer? Okay, I know I haven’t posted in a while, and I know it’s been even longer since I posted anything quilt related, but […]

Warm weather meal

It’s getting warmer and warmer here in the desert. Actually, I’m not really complaining, since we had an unusually cool (for us) spring. However, now that cooler weather is gone for the duration, and we’re hitting the 90s now, with temperatures over 100 beginning next weekend. Have I mentioned that […]

It’s still busy

I know; I’ve been neglecting my blog lately. Having grandchildren here so frequently has taken a lot of time and, as I explained before, it’s just a busy time of year for our family. I haven’t even worked on my Winding Ways quilt in days. 🙁 But yesterday was my […]

Busy time of year

It’s usually the holiday season that makes people crazy with comings and goings, but this time of year is almost as busy for us. It started with one daughter’s birthday at the end of April, followed by a granddaughter’s birthday at the beginning of May. Then there was Mother’s Day, […]