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. :)
towels with Christmas tree of dogs

Fun towel embroidery

I ran across an adorable embroidery motif, and it was on sale; what was I to do? 😉 I decided to put it onto a couple of kitchen towels, perfect for the season. I don’t know about you, but I think they’re really cute! On top of that, this gave […]

Open view of gear bag

Double Zip Gear Bag

I really like my Martelli rotary cutters; I have a 45mm version as well as a 60mm version. The thing that makes them so comfortable for me to use is that they have offset handles — which is what makes them awkward to take anywhere, given that they aren’t flat. […]

Feathered Star quilt top

The top is finished!

Just yesterday, this is what my latest quilt top looked like: As you can probably see, the center square was complete, but I hadn’t yet attached the borders. Those border sections to surround the outer triangles, which are just pinned in place, weren’t even cut out, as I was still […]

LeMoyne Star center

A little progress

I think I’ve cut out all of the major pieces for my current project — it took a while, since I had to wait for the black background fabric to arrive. However, I’ve now pieced the central LeMoyne Star and have begun working on the feathered star that surrounds it. […]