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. :)

Monday …

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Today is Monday, and it isn’t starting out as well as I could have hoped. 🙁 I periodically do a random online check of our credit card account, and today’s check showed two purchases neither my DH nor I had made. Ack! Not again! This is the third or maybe […]

Decision

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First of all, I hope everyone who celebrates it is having a wonderful Easter. 🙂 But, getting to the title of my post, I’ve finally made a decision on how to quilt the background of my plumeria! Whew! Making this sort of decision is always the hardest part for me. […]

Just what I needed!

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I’ve begun the free-motion work on the plumeria quilt I began some time ago, and one of the motifs I used just isn’t cutting it. I’m going to have to take it out, which isn’t good news, since the lines have been stitched over several times. Ugh. But it has […]

Accola — take two

Some time ago, I made this shawl as a project for a Craftsy class. I love the shawl, but it’s really too small to be useful to me. Sad, isn’t it? Anyway, I had some of the yarn left and decided to make it again in a larger size. I […]

Souvenir — delayed

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Last summer my husband and I took a cruise around the Hawaiian islands to celebrate our anniversary. While there, I bought a special batik that is only sold in one shop in the world. I decided to use it in a small quilt as a memento of our trip. Fast […]