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. :)
Pretty pale teal sewing machine with flowers on the front. Also a grey bag for transport, also decorated with flowers.

A little sister

Let me get this out of the way from the start: I love my Bernina 790+ sewing machine. I often say that someone would have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands. However, it does have one disadvantage: it’s really heavy! In the past, I’ve opted not to participate […]

image showing a floral scene from Paducah, KY, and saying "See My Quilt on Display". Dates of the Paducah show are given as April 26-29, 2023.

I almost fainted …

First of all, I have to eat my words. Referring back to October and the whim that led me to enter a quilt into the Road to California show, a few days after I’d sent in that entry, I also was notified that the AQS show in Paducah was also […]

Quilt top with embroidered winter animal blocks and embroidered borders

Quilt top finished!

Yesterday I posted that I was working on embroidering the borders of the Winter Twist project from San Francisco Stitch Co. And now the embroidery is finished, and my Bernina is taking a well-earned nap! The next step, of course, will be to quilt the piece, finishing the little quilt […]

Bernina 790+ embroidering purple border fabric.

Borders

The borders and corner sections for the embroidered project I’ve been working on were released! This is the Winter Twist sew-along from San Francisco Stitch Co. The blocks and finishing pieces have been free for a while, but that will stop in a very short time. There are, of course, four […]