Recreational Chevrons and Organization skills

My good friend Heather asked me to make her a chevron quilt, including her favorite things.  Bicycles and retro campers.

This quilt was so fun to make.  It's no secret that I ♥ chevrons.  She picked out the main novelty prints, and I added in the blue and grey fabrics.

She also wanted a 'foot cozy' with delightfully soft fleece fabric to keep her tootsies warm.

This was my first time doing a 'foot cozy' and I definitely learned how to make it better next time.

We dropped this off to her yesterday and it was a success.

I'm so happy she loved it and SOOO happy she chose me to make this for her! 

I'm beyond honored.

♥

Thanks Heather!!

In other news, I was told my sewing area looked 'like crap'!  Haha!

It is true - it did!

So, Saturday I got some organizational items to clean it up.

Ohhh, how I love owls and Target.  They always have cute owl stuff.

I got this cute owl binder to house all my patterns, that had been laying in a big unfortunate messy pile.

Got some page protectors and Voila!  Now if I'm looking for a pattern, I can find it.

Wow - organization at it's finest. ;)  Amazing.

Of course I had to get the matching magazine holder.

Need a quilting magazine?  I have a shameful amount of them.

My rack of crap.

I found this cute 'Quilting Queen' sign and of course I had to have it.

It sits nicely on my rack of crap. 

Have a lovely week!

♥

Linking up to:

 Gingersnaps Quilts

Quilt Story

 Let's get Aquainted Monday Link up

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Sew Many Ways

Squatty Stash Bags

I found this fabric over the weekend and fell in love!

I've gotta go get more!

This are the 'squatty' version of my stash bags.  A little smaller, but still hold a punch.

Need to say something?  Say it with this!

Sigh - I love novelty prints! :)

Comparison of my regular stash bags, versus the squatty version.

♥

These are in the shop!

Linked up to Quilt Story and Crazy Mom Quilts

Smitten with Notting Hill

I cannot tell you how much I am in love with this quilt.  I am keeping it and hanging it in my future sewing room...or somewhere. I haven't decided. :)

I used this pattern.

I quilted the borders with the flower power pattern from Angela Walters FMQ book,

then straight line quilted the middle.

The piecing of this quilt was super fast and I have leftovers to make another!

Woohoo!!

The Notting Hill fabric line by Joel Dewberry is delicious.  I ♥ it.  I'm pretty sure it's my

favorite for this year so far. Haha.  It's a little pricey, but SO beautiful and the quality of the

cotton is amazing.  Try it - you'll see.

TGIF!

Linking up to Crazy Mom quilts.

Lemon Sorbet

Lemon Sorbet Baby Quilt

It's been snowing here for days.  Trying to get a decent picture of this quilt has been difficult, but the sun did come out for a moment, so I snatched this baby up for picture taking.

I love how bright and cheerful this is.  We need bright and cheeriness!  I have this hanging on the wall right now in my office, pretending it's the sun. HAHA.

This was fun to make.  I wanted to do all yellow with a splash of another color, and when I saw the cute zebra print, I knew that was it.  The back is the same zebra print.  I love it.  It's a light grey and perfect for this quilt.

And of course, a lovely polka-dot binding.

This one is in the shop. :)

Linked up to Quilt Story and Freshly Pieced (although mine wasn't a WIP, it just got pulled out of the dryer!)

Stay warm!!  ♥

2012 - See ya!

I'm pretty glad that 2012 is over.  I am hopeful that 2013 will be a great year.  Perhaps I am overly optimistic...but hey, better that than be a negative Nancy...or something. 

In the spirit of starting new and fresh, here is a picture collage of all the quilts I made in 2012.  I'm excited to start new adventures in quilting, and hopefully will have more to share for the last of 2013!

My family has had it's share of trials for 2012.   I had someone tell me to write positive uplifting quotes with a dry erase marker on my mirror, to start the day with a good outlook.    In my quest to find uplifting quotes, I came across information on the lotus flower.  The Buddhists believe that the lotus flower is a sign of spiritual awakening and regrowth. Amazingly, the lotus flower gets it start in the bottom of dirty and muddy water but manages to rise up out of the water and produce a perfect flower.   It rises up to the sun each morning, and is interestingly, clean and pure of the mud. 

I found this very interesting and this has helped me in a small way, get through some of our trials.  A simple story, a simple fact that had a big impact on me. I know that's cheesy, but hey - whatever works right?

Here is a quote that is my very favorite of all time and I try to live by it daily:

'Happiness is not something ready made.  It comes from your own actions."  ` Dalai Lama

Anyway, here is to 2013!  Moving on!

XOXO

Every Which Way - But Perfect

Every Which Way - But Perfect

So, I got this as a quilt kit from one of my favorite stores.  I ran into several issues whilst making this quilt.  :(

1)  Ran out of the gray background fabric because I am a moron and cut it wrong.

2) Couldn't find the right 'Shade of Gray' to match what came with the quilt - asked the people at the quilt shop and no one had a clue.  Bummer.

3) The arrows tops that were precut (not by me, some other moron) were cut wrong so my points on most of the arrows got cut off.  BIG bummer.

4)  My sewing machine decided to protest and wouldn't quilt...uh because some moron (okay, me) hadn't cleaned her in quite some time.  It was an embarrassment.
Phewsh...yah-that's a lot of issues for this poor quilt.  Needless to say, it's done.  I love the fabric on the back...and the binding so that made up for it.
Robot Husband made me a quilt rack, so this quilt is...on the rack!

Going back to issue #3, I have a little bit of OCD when it comes to my quilts.  Okay, more than a little.  If my blocks and/or points don't match up perfect, I sort of throw a tantrum that a 3-year old would envy...or be scared of.   I guess I should work on that.  There you go, my New Years Resolution. ;)

Mimi PugPants

And, because everyone luvs a Pug Face....here is our little Mimi.  Isn't she adorable?  Yah, she's got a mug only a mama could love.  She has many different names...each day or so she gets a new one.  Mimi McMuffin, Mimi PugPants, Mimi Puggins,  Mimi McFlurry...Um, we might be obsessed with McDonalds or something.  I blame the kids for that.  If you follow me on Instagram (RobotMomSews), I have a shameful amount of Mimi pictures. I'm not going to apologize.  She makes us happy. Haha.  ;)

In the meantime, I have a few other projects in the works that I am excited about.  Unfortunately, Christmas did a number on me....I didn't touch my sewing machine for like a month and a half or something.  Probably why she protested....

Hugs!
XOXO

Randomness

Ombre knitting

So, I took up knitting.  I'm by NO means a pro, and I wouldn't dare call myself such.  I am enjoying knitting though.  I love being able to sit and do something with my hands, anywhere.  I can't necessarily take my sewing machine with me everywhere I go, altho I would LOVE too, it's just not practical. HAHA.  Knitting is very portable!  I love it.  It's soothing and relaxing.  This will be a headband/earwarmer for my oldest, who (sniff) just turned 9 on Monday.  I can't believe I have a 9 year old.  Where does the time go?

Christmas Quilt!

I finished my Christmas quilt.  It sits proudly on the couch, by the Christmas tree.  I'm happy with it.  It turned out smaller than I would have liked, but it will only be out for a month, so does it really matter?  Nah.  I actually am ahead of the game this year, shopping wise.  I usually like to wait until the last minute, in a mad dash (thrill?) to get it all done.  Nope, not this year.  We've actually already got presents under the tree!?!?!  What??  I know, it's amazing.  And wonderful.  I need less stress this year.

Happy sewing, knitting, crafting, whatever!!

XOXO