Do you have any coupons? Why YES! I do!

Yesterday I had my post-op appointment with my Dr.  I 'got' to finally drive myself there.  Phewsh.  Being forbidden to drive for 3 weeks is hellacious.  It completely strips your independence from you.   Not like I would have gone anywhere while I was recovering, but still.  If I needed to, I couldn't.  JoAnn's happens to be on my way home.  I just happened to need some fabric!  In I went, armed with 4 coupons!  Yes, 4 coupons.
Friends, if you have a smart phone, and you shop at JoAnn's and you do NOT have the JoAnn's app, you must get it.  It's free.  Go get it!  Seriously...go now.  You can view all the current coupons and save them in your 'wallet'.  Then when they expire, it will let you know.  All you have to do is read off the incredibly long coupon # to the cashier and voila!  You get your discount.  I had two coupons from JoAnn's, and two from Michaels, since they are now accepting their coupons, why not?!  So, when I presented my delicious fabric to the cashier and when she asked, do you have any coupons?  I gleefully said -  Why Yes!  I have 4 of them!!  Woohoo!  You'll never guess how much I saved.  Guess.  :)  $17.00!!  What??  No seriously!  I did!!!  I was pretty happy with my purchases.

Aren't these gorgeous?  They are much prettier in person.  I'm thinking of making the youngest a skirt out of the top flower print.  It's so pretty.  I stopped buying fabric at JoAnn's a while ago. I didn't like their quality of fabric for my quilts.  But, Denyse Schmidt has started introducing fabrics to JoAnn's and it's higher quality cottons and soooo pretty.  So I thought, why  not.  I will give it a try.  Plus I saved $17 bucks. ;)  Hee hee.

Happy Sewing!
Hugs.

McCall's amateur quilt contest

I entered my Taffy Pull quilt in the McCall's amateur quilters contest about a month or so ago. They just opened up the voting. I'm so excited, I doubt I will win, but hey my quilt is out there. I added a widget on the right hand side for the voting. If you are just stopping by, will you vote for me? A little self-esteem does a lady good! And a big thank you FOR stopping by!! I took some time during my healing/recovery for some sewing. I finished the quilt top for the girl Poky Little Puppy. I also did some more granny squares out of my Pam Kitty Morning fabric. It's a little ruh-diculous at this point, if I could cover my house in Pam Kitty fabric, I would. I don't think the hubs would like it much. But that's his problem. :) I'll post some pictures later. Hugs!

Hiatus

I had surgery a week and a half ago. I have been forbidden from doing anything and everything...although I'm fairly certain blogging didn't fall into that category. Who know tho. I'm terribly bored and tired of the tv. Thank goodness for Amazon!!!! I ordered my Downton Abbey seasons 1 & 2 and received them last week. Just in time because I had watched pretty much everything available on the Dish. Oh I love me some Downton Abbey. Thank the heavens for Masterpiece theatre keeping me in tune with my English soap opera dramas!! Other than that, I did try to sew up part one of two baby quilts. We have some friends having twins so I'm making matching boy/girl quilts. Cute, I know! Well I got about 3/4 of the girl top done today (fairly easy pattern) and then my body failed me and told me to quit. I know, dr's orders and all, but sewing is fairly easy work one would think. Hmmm...I guess when she told me I couldn't do "anything" it was meant literally, rather than just advise? Robot Husband has been taking good care of me and the kids...and the dogs. He does refuse to take care of the bunny, luckily I got that covered with the eldest. ;) Take care fellow sew-ers and crafters alike. I'll return eventually. Hugs.

Wednesday WIP

Drumroll please....Okay, well perhaps we aren't QUITE ready for a drumroll.  My first ever Dresden plate!  It's ALMOST done!  I just have 3 more corners to finish the quilting on and then I can bind this puppy!  I'm loving it.  I had a lot of inspiration on Flickr, ugh-my new obsession.  Great for inspiration, but what a time killer!  I need to stop that...no seriously.

SO, I can now mark off Dresden plates off my list of things to learn....which was posted here:  http://robotmomsews.blogspot.com/2012/02/things-i-must-do.html
I've decided to write down all the sewing things I must do:
1) Learn Hexagons
2)  Color wheel
3)  Go to Sewing Summit in October - Woot Woot!  Anyone wanna go?  Um, we are crossing this off because it was like $350 to go...and it sold out in a mere minutes, IF I had $350 just lying around to begin with.  Sad...I know.4)  Make some potholders, just cuz
5)  Spiderweb blocks
6)  Kitchen Window blocks (Elizabeth Hartman's book)
7)  Make a Wonky Star block quilt  - Mostly done...Kristy got assigned the other half. ;)
8)  Learn free motion (Ugh)  YAY!  Did it!
9) Make a fussy cut quilt
10) Um, finish Robot Husband's Robot Man Quilt (LOL-do you like how he's last?)  Aww, poor guy.


In other news, I keep thinking today is Thursday, or Friday...not sure but in my world, it's definately NOT Wednesday.  Sigh.  Oh well...perhaps I'm too excited for this weekend.  RobotHusband is taking me to see Wrath of the Titans.  EEEEK!  I'm so excited.  If you have no idea what I am talking about, then shame on you.  Shame shame.  ;)
How is everyone?  What are you working on?  DO tell!

Postcard Mini Quilt

My postcard mini-quilt for Daughter #2 is finished! 

**Don't worry, if you can't read the words, don't feel bad - My embroidery skills leave MUCH to be desired**  It's sad.  I am going to work on this.

Daughter #1 wants one as well, so I will make her one next.  These are SO much fun.

Here is the back.  I just made little corners to hang it with a dowel.

This was my first one...I'm not terribly proud of it, I'm hoping my 2nd one will turn out better.   This one has a lot of mistakes...oh well, learning experience!

Happy Monday!

Hopscotch Quilt - finished!

Oh Pam Kitty Morning Fabric, how I love thee.....

This fabric is SO sweet, my teeth hurt.

This is my second quilt done using this pattern, which I made up in my head.  I'll be doing a tutorial on it later on, but for now....These babies are resting on a bench.

:) Hugs

Weekend WIP's

Here is what I worked on yesterday while it was snowing/raining...Yah, you heard me right.  This weather is so weird. 

It's a kit I got from Pine Needles, it's supposed to be a pillow, but I think I'm going to make it into a wall hanging.  I just need to fill in the address and the embroidery part is done.  Isn't it so sweet?  Kinda makes your teeth hurt huh?  My circle stamp is wee bit crooked. :(  I may end up picking that out and redoing it. Dang it.  And I want to add a little more embellisments to it.  Just to make it EXTRA sweet. :)