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. :)

Another cardigan

I’ve mentioned before that I’ve taken a couple of knitting classes from Craftsy, and I’ve just finished another one. This one is called The Perfect Fit Seamless Crazy Lace Cardigan. LOL! That’s a real mouthful, isn’t it? But it involved “playing” with different lace knitting motifs and incorporating them into […]

Back from vacation!

Does this photo tell you why I haven’t posted in a while? I’ve been quiet because I’ve been away with DH — we took a cruise around the Hawaiian Islands for our 40th anniversary, and we enjoyed ourselves just as much as you might imagine. 😉 I’ll try to make […]

Lace sleigh

Last night I attended the second of three mastery classes for machine embroidery. We learned more about placement in the hoop and how to use stabilizers and that sort of thing. To practice, we made free-standing lace ornaments, and I chose to do a sleigh. It was lots of fun […]

Another cover

I’m making good progress on the top of my Sakura quilt, but in the meantime I took the first of three classes on how to use the embroidery module of my Bernina. That was Wednesday, and I learned how to place a piece of fabric accurately into the hoop in […]