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. :)

Starting …

… the quilting on a new quilt is always fun! 🙂 This one is simply a panel with added borders — very basic, as it will see very hard use as a nap quilt when our youngest grandchild (our only granddaughter) goes to preschool next fall. I’m going to outline […]

More stockings

My goodness! That jelly roll I bought has enough strips left for one more batch of these cute stockings (with several strips left over afterwards!), but I may be “stocking-ed out” at this point. 😉 I’m not sure this particular jelly roll was quite as traditionally colored as I’d thought […]

I gave in …

… to temptation and finished my armchair caddy instead of waiting until March for the next lesson. I’m not unhappy with how it turned out, though I know there are things that could have been better. Here’s the outside view, with the little handle for carrying.  And here’s the inside, […]

More embellishing

I think I can finally call this finished! Of course, the caddy isn’t finished, but the embellishing is, and I’m not unhappy with the results, considering that this is my first attempt at something like this. 🙂 These two pieces will be the pockets, and I’m going to put the […]

Quilting in the Desert

I’m in Phoenix right now, staying with a good friend and taking a couple of classes at a retreat called Quilting in the Desert. This is my third year doing that, and it’s such fun! It’s put on by the same people who organize Quilt Camp in the Pines each […]