Ahhh, Back to Mabel!

This little break from quilting has been way too long. It was good to get a quilt loaded tonight and I got quite a bit finished. It's a Turning Twenty that Carole made and the backing is not one I've quilted on before. I believe that it's a woven flannel, if there is such a thing. It sure is soft!

More Sweat Treats, of course!
I actually got 2 of them finished tonight and no I didn't take a bite out of the ice cream bar. The drawing I had didn't include a missing bite, but I thought it would be cute!

Sweet Treat of the day

Not quite as adorable as the last ones, but it'll certainly do.

OH yea, I bought some fabric last night. Alco is having a 40% off sale on all their $3.99 fabric this week.



Not all of this was bought last night, but I bought seven quarter yards and a one yard piece of the brown dots to make this one for Elizabeth. Hopefully, I can get some blocks prepped to work on in the evenings at MQS.

More Sweet Treats....and TP

Here's another one that I made last night:


OK, now on to a more serious matter.
We usually use Charmin Toilet Tissue around here, but one of my purchases at Kmart included a 6 pack of Quilted Northern. Now being a quilter, how could I pass that up with $2.00 off. So, I put the first roll on Sunday evening and each an every time I have looked at the roll I have thought, "Gee, it sure seems narrower!" So this morning before work I finally got out 2 rolls....one Charmin and one Quilted Northern and guess what? The quilting must take up some of the tissue width because it is almost 1/4 inch narrower than the Charmin. It's kind of like the ketchup and pancake syrup bottles that have gotten skinnier lately. The price hasn't gone down, but the bottles are smaller. It's really hard to get a good photo because the Northern roll is much bigger around, but look!


Edit: Well here you go: Proof!

Cute, Cute, Cute!

Now isn’t this cute? I can’t tell you too much about it, but I have a vision and I’m very excited about it.



Another form of cute, or handsome might be a better word for this one. This is my grandson Matt, who is growing up so quickly. I don’t very often post photos of him, but just had to show you this one. Of course, he’s taller than his Nana now and such a big help to his mom with the little ones.



I'm not sure if this is cute yet or not. It's only 19 of the 60 blocks that will make up this memory quilt for a group that has been having a Horseshoe Tournament for 20 years. You get the idea

I Need a New Printer!

I have an Epson 4450 All-In-One Printer that is only a year old. It works great, but the ink is sending me into the poor-house. The Cartridges are separate and I really like that, but they don't seem to hold very much. Last week I was printing photos for the Horseshoe Quilt and printed 12 sheets of 4 photos each. I changed the Cyan cartridge at the very beginning. Several sheets into it, I replaced the Black, several sheets later, it was the Magenta, and before I was finished, I replaced the Yellow. I bought more Printed Treasures sheets and did 4 more sheets and I'm stuck now because I am out of Cyan and Magenta already. Now, granted, printing photos uses more ink than a text page, but this is ridiculous.

I ordered some knock-off cartridges last year and they don't work in it, so I'm spending $13 for a black cartridge and $9 for each color one, for a total of $40 to print less than 20 pages. Hmmmm, that's just way too much!!

Any recommendations? Do you have a Kodak printer? I've been seeing their advertisements regarding cheaper ink, so maybe that's the way to go. Whatever I decide, I need to do it quickly, as I cannot print anything with an empty cartridge.

Stashbusting Week #18

April 27-May 3, 2009

Fabric Added This Week - 3.5 yards (I needed it, Yep, I did)
Fabric Added Year to Date - 96.75 yards

Fabric Used This Week - 3.375 yards
Fabric Used Year to Date - 132.5 yards

YEAR TO DATE NET TOTAL: 35.75 yards

K-Mart Double Coupons

K-Mart is having another Super Double Coupon Event, however, here in Lafayette, they aren't tripling the 75 cent and less ones, they are just doubling all coupons up to $2.
Great deals I got today include V-8 Fusion that was $3.99 (yikes - pricey), but I had a $2 coupon which they doubled, so it was FREE! Some of my other free items include the salad dressing, BBQ sauce, DR Pepper, Quakes, J&J first aid tape. The sale price before coupons for my items was just over $60 and after coupons I paid $15.40. Nice huh?

All the baby items are for an upcoming baby shower which I am co-hosting in June and the candy is for my candy dish at work. Someone dropped a $5 bill in it on Thursday last week, so I guess that means they want more candy. It's nice when I can get a bag of the good stuff for less than a buck.

Julie went with me and it was so much fun to do this with her. She got over $80 worth of stuff for $41 and that included 4 packages of swimmers diapers. She had lots of coupons that I don't have since I don't usually get the Indy Star. Maybe I'll have to start getting it again.....