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. :)

Half!

Yay! I’ve hit the halfway point in making my Winding Ways blocks! I have to say that my blocks are improving, too, with fewer little “misses” in the center. I’d probably be making faster progress on these blocks, except that the warmer weather is setting in, and my sewing room […]

The good, the bad and the ugly

What an evening this is turning out to be! I had plans to have a nice, quiet evening of piecing Winding Ways blocks, but that is apparently not to be. Let’s begin with the good, though! I tried a new recipe this afternoon for English muffins. I love English muffins, […]

EQ7 is coming!!!

I’m so excited! I love EQ6, but EQ7 promises to be even better, and it’s going to begin shipping on June 7. 😀 Here’s what we know so far: Quilts, Blocks and now PHOTOS!Digital cameras will become a quilter’s best friend. EQ7 has dozens of ways to turn everyday photos […]

Click-it bag

I belong to a local quilting group, and we had a meeting today. Many of us enjoy ourselves so much that we go to our meeting place around mid-morning to work on whatever we like for a couple of hours, while catching up on everyone’s activities. Then we all have […]

A birthday

I really am trying to work on my Winding Ways blocks, but there isn’t actually much to show that’s new. Besides, I keep getting interrupted for other things that don’t necessarily have anything to do with quilting! Today, for example, is our younger daughter’s birthday. She and her two children, […]

And more yum …

Can you stand another foodie photo? After all, I did call this “Quilting and more…”. So, I made some cheddar cheese biscuits to go with our chili con carne tonight — it’s a new-to-me biscuit recipe, and they were pretty good, if you can judge by how many my husband […]