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. :)

Time flies …

… even when you’re not having so much fun. 😉 My poor little dog injured her back seven weeks ago and has been on enforced rest (and a couple of meds) since then. She and I both are about to go stir crazy, since I feel so bad for her […]

Wool needle case

About six months ago, I posted this project. I enjoyed it so much that I decided to do more — especially after I found about a zillion really adorable ideas at Bird Brain Designs. 🙂 I chose this one on the left, called Americana. I’ve just finished making the scissors […]

Strips

I’ve been working on my basket quilt today and have made some progress. 🙂 All of the baskets were already put together into strips with black setting triangles, and today I cut what felt like miles of an off-white fabric with black pin dots; these strips will be the first […]

Visitors in our garden

We had guests this morning — completely unexpected ones. Actually, they visited our next-door neighbors first, but then they decided to head our way. Can you see them? It’s a family of quail, complete with a baby or two. There were several more that disappeared before I could grab my […]