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. :)
Photo of a large sewing machine stitching brown and turquoise motifs on a dark brown fabric sandwich.

It’s here!

What’s here, you ask? Why, my brand-new replacement Bernina 790Pro!!!! It’s been a month since my original Pro sort of blew up, but Bernina sent me a new one that I picked up from my dealer  last night. The only reason for the delay was that the local tech — […]

Navy fabric machine embroidered mug rug.Embroidered motif shows a moon face crossing over a stylized sun. Text on the left is "Solar Eclipse," and on the right "04.08.24" in gold.

Solar Eclipse 2024

No, I won’t be able to see the total eclipse tomorrow; I don’t live in the right place, and I won’t be traveling to get there. That’s okay; I’ll see a partial one, and that’s fine. Still, this eclipse is big news! One of the machine embroidery sites I like […]