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. :)

Heading for the border(s)

Whew! The major part of the piecing on this quilt is now done! The next part will be to add the borders, of course, and then I may put the top away temporarily and do something else for some variety before beginning the quilting. Naturally, given my “waffly” mind, the […]

Ready for the next step

Believe it or not, I’m still working on La Vie Est Belle, though the lack of posts lately may not have made that very obvious. 😉 At any rate, I now have all of the major blocks put together as squares, each one a combination of a star center and […]

What a mess!

I’m still working on La Vie Est Belle (see my first post about this here), and my sewing cabinet has become more and more crowded as I progress. There really is progress, but it’s difficult to see at this point. Beginning from the left of the photo, my various fabrics, […]

Embroidered Cord Wraps

A few months ago I saw an article in the September/October issue of Designs in Machine Embroidery magazine, and it seemed like a pretty great idea for organization. Those pesky cords we all have to keep around for our mobile devices always end up tangled and disorganized, but the magazine had […]

Baking

I’m still making progress — very slow progress — on my current New York Beauty project, but I really don’t have anything “show-off-able” yet. However, I do have a couple of baked items to share. My family — two daughters and spouses with five grandchildren — gathered at one daughter’s […]