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. :)

International Quilting Weekend & quilt show

What are you doing for this special weekend? My local guild, Desert Quilters of Nevada, is having our annual quilt show! This is a three-day event (Friday through Sunday) that takes all year to coordinate. Finally, last Monday those of us who were entering quilts for the show delivered them to the […]

Keep Warm and Carry On

The title of this post is the name of the project I’ve just completed — a quick one that will be pretty useful. It begins with a pattern called Quilted Cook & Carry and was modified by the education department at Bernina USA as part of their All About Embroidery program. The original […]

Quail progress

I’m almost finished with the quilting on my quail project! There will be a slight delay, though, while my Bernina 780 has a bit of an adjustment. I don’t want to switch to my 630, as I’m afraid the quilting will be noticeably different at this late stage. Luckily for me, the […]

Back to normal!

In my last post, I told you that my Mac had to go in for repairs. They actually shipped it out to a service center in Texas, but now it’s finally home again. Yay! The new logic board should solve the video problems I’d been having, so now that I’ve […]

Computer-less

My Mac needs a repair! 🙁 Thank goodness for AppleCare, which provides such repairs at no extra charge, but I will be without my Mac for a week, or perhaps (I hope) a bit less. A few years ago, I’d have felt somewhat cut off, unable to contact friends or […]