Sandy

720 posts
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. :)
new thread

Delays

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but there have been few little glitches in my progress. First of all, with the new MacOS that will be coming (next month?), I really had to get going on revamping my web site. This blog is safe, but the other part of […]

Echoes

Progress on two fronts

I’m still working on the same quilt I showed you a couple of weeks ago. There’s progress, but it’s been slowed because of another project I had to get done — and it has a deadline. This project isn’t a quilt, but it’s related. You see, about twenty-five years ago […]

Can you see it?

I’m working on a new quilt, this one designed by Ruth Ann Berry and called Echoes; my husband actually picked this one out. Can you see the intertwined shapes beginning to emerge? The quilt is made entirely of triangles laid out in eighteen rows of 45 triangles each. Keeping track of […]

Christmas ornaments

When my husband and I were newlyweds, decorating our first Christmas tree was a problem, since we didn’t have any ornaments. When our daughters came along, I began buying them an ornament each year so that they’d have a collection when the time came for them to have their own […]

Scissor case

Some time back, I watched a webinar that featured a pretty scissor case in two sizes. The design came from Sweet Pea, whose designs I’ve used in the past. Yesterday I made the smaller case from fabrics, threads, etc., that I had in my stash. The design went together quite […]