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. :)

New project

I’m still quilting my basket quilt. It’s taking me a long time, mainly because I’m not doing any really fun quilting on it. I’ve already done some feathers in the plain strips, but the basket blocks are getting simple outline quilting, and that’s just plain boring. :S Still, it will […]

Pullover

I haven’t had much to show anyone in the past week or so, but today I finished knitting a little pullover. I used baby alpaca yarn in a very pale pink, and it’s so soft! I probably need to steam the seams a little to get the little ridge out, […]

Macaroni!

No, this isn’t a post about food. 😉 Remember that retreat I blogged about in January? One of the classes I had there was from Susan Cleveland and dealt with using her corded piping in curves within blocks. Prior to this, I’d only used the piping next to the binding […]

Quilters are the nicest people!

I belong to a great group of quilters here where I live; we’re the Green Valley Quilters. When I first joined the group after moving here in 1999, we had a telephone “tree” to inform each one of what we needed to bring to the next meeting. It was a […]

Another top

At the retreat I mentioned recently, I took a second class. I won’t say too much about it, as it wasn’t my favorite for several reasons. However, I’ve now finished the top begun there (it’s fused appliqué), though I am still debating whether or not to add borders. That would […]