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. :)

Pumpkins!

Okay, maybe just part of a pumpkin at this point. 😉 I’ve begun my next quilt, which is an embroidered project designed by Claudia Dinnell. This one will be a Halloween quilt, but it certainly won’t be finished for this Halloween. LOL! Still, there’s always next year. I don’t actually […]

Practicing

I’m between actual projects at the moment and awaiting inspiration for my next one. However, I decided to take advantage of the down time to practice my free-motion quilting a bit. It’s rather nice to do this, not only to try to improve, but also because there’s no stress involved, […]

New cardigan

I can’t even remember when I began knitting this cardigan, but I finished it a week or so ago. It’s actually the same design as this one, which is a Custom Fit design, tailored to my measurements. However, this time I switched out the design on the front for a different […]

Tragedy at home

Recently we’ve all been witness to devastation in Houston and Puerto Rico, hoping we could all do something to help. This morning my husband and I awoke to yet another tragedy, this one not a natural disaster, but a man-made horror. We live in the Las Vegas area, in  a city […]

Love

Love — that’s the title of the little quilt I’ve just finished, for obvious reasons. This one is a bit different for me in that the quilting and the appliqué were both done with the embroidery module (“in the hoop”) of my Bernina. I’ve never quilted this way before! Unfortunately, […]