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. :)
Sideways view of heart blocks alternating with 9-patch blocks to give a chain effect. The hearts are in rows of pale orange, white-ish, and pale green, while the chain blocks are small white squares on a blue-grey background. That blue-grey is also the background for the heart blocks.

Sideways …

I’m talking about the picture here. 😉 My “design wall” isn’t long enough to hang these rows the right direction, so they’re sideways. As I add more rows, I won’t be able to hang this at all; the quilt top will be too big in every direction, even though it […]

Triptych of embroidered/appliquéed pieces. Reading across them is "Home is where the Dog is", and the fabrics and threads are in shades of purples and teals.

I took a break …

… from my fun “needle” quilt today. I’d run across an embroidery design that I just loved, so I stitched it up before continuing the next step on my quilt. The design is from Janine Babich, the second one I’ve ever done of hers. The first one was a *long* […]

A range of colorful batik fabrics, ranging from pink to blue to purple and green. There is also some very pale blue for backgrounds.

Sew Speedy

Some time ago, I saw an adorable pattern  by Whole Circle Studio and have admired it ever since. However, a couple of weeks ago I was planning to attend an upcoming sewing day at “my” LQS, the day sponsored by our local guild, and I didn’t really have anything in […]