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. :)

Quilt Show!

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Above is the logo of our local quilt show, set to open on Friday, April 26! I must say that our show is always a very good one; we have over 300 quilts on display, and there’s a good number of vendors, too. Something for everyone! The show takes a […]

Bargello Flag Quilt

My local quilt circle met last week, and one of our members — a good friend — showed us how to make a bargello quilt that looks like a US flag. I’d made a small flag quilt a few years ago, but I hung it on our front door, facing due west, […]

Plumeria

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I did say this quilt was almost finished a few days ago, didn’t I? And it is! I used a new-to-me appliqué technique that I will have to practice more — I have a few “jaggies” that I wish I’d been able to avoid. But this is a souvenir or […]

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 […]