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. :)

Paris! (part 1)

I know it’s been a while since my last post, but I have a very good excuse: my husband and I have been in France! We left home early on July 14, which was pretty appropriate, since it’s the French national holiday. We landed the next day and met my […]

More summer activity

Remember this post from almost two weeks ago? The weekly blocks keep coming, so I’ve done two more since then. The first was the car in which the participants would “ride” to the various destinations, and the second took us to Boston. The third came out a week ago and […]

Variation on a theme

Those elephants I showed you about a week ago reminded me that I had a pattern for a pin cushion that I’d been planning to make. Elephants may never forget, but I do! LOL! Anyway, this pattern was for an elephant pin cushion — a really cute one. It was trickier to […]

Summer activity

Things are heating up here in the desert; we’ve been in triple digits for weeks now, with no relief in sight. Luckily, air conditioning is everywhere here: cars, homes, stores, theaters. In fact, I usually have to take a light sweater with me to many places, since the AC gets […]

An unusual quilting tool

I’ve had this tool for several years, so I’m not even sure that this same model is still available (newer ones are), but it certainly is useful! It’s called a Laser Level Square, and its intended use is for construction (squaring corners, etc.) or even for checking to make sure something is […]