Sandy

720 posts
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. :)

Happy!

Wow! Time certainly does sneak by, doesn’t it? Of course, it’s easy to lose a huge chunk of time when we’re sick, and that’s what happened to me last week. With the very bad flu season all around us, I headed for the doctor’s office right away when I realized […]

Cold hands

My hands — and feet, too — get awfully cold, even in the comparatively mild climate where we live. Sometimes they get so cold that the shade of white they turn makes them look dead. Ugh! I’ve worn gloves for years, of course, but sometimes gloves get in the way […]

Silk!

In Houston last month, I ran across a stand selling silk yarn called Silky Mulberry. Oh, yum! It’s so soft and luscious to touch that I simply couldn’t leave the stand without a skein of that yarn. The hardest part was deciding which color to buy. I finally ended up […]

Snowflakes for Sandy HIll

We’ve been reading about and mourning the loss of those 20 innocent children and six courageous adults last week at the Sandy Hill school in Connecticut. Who knows how or why these things happen? I won’t get political and say what I think about gun control, but today I found […]

April Azalea

This little quilt was an unexpected bonus from my quilting buddy. She purchased a Hawaiian-themed two-block kit from Stacy Michell, but she didn’t feel like doing both blocks. She did one and gave me the “negative image” version of the one she’d finished. Hers has pink where mine has yellow/blue/green […]