Follower Friday - Kimberly

Whew, made it to Friday, been a whirlwind kind of week. We're back for more Follower Friday and this week we have with us..

Kimberly!

Specs:

Name:  Kimberly

Family:  I have a wonderful husband of 10 years, 2 beautiful girls ages 8 and 4.  I have a Great Dane, a mutt puppy and a bunny named Lola.

Location:  Salt Lake City, Utah

Blog:  www.robotmomsews.blogspot.com

Flickr:  I am under Robot Mom Sews, of course. ;)

Etsy: robotmomsews.etsy.com

Day job: I work as a Coding Auditor for the University of Utah

Dream job:  I would LOVE to own my own fabric shop, to be able to pet pretty fabric and be around it all day long and sew, sew, sew.

What are you working on now?  I am recently addicted to Chevrons.  I love how they are so easy to make and come together so beautifully, points perfect.  They are very forgiving and easy! J

Charlie Brown Chevrons

2^nd Chevron quilt – Mocha Charlie Brown

(Excuse the crappy phone photo)

Favorites:

Place:  San Francisco

Movie:  I LOVE old black & white movies, Downton Abbey, The Help and most recently Prometheus.  Besides Robots, I’m a little addicted to alien movies as well. ;)

Food:  Mexican!

Way to spend a Friday night:  With my family,  going to dinner and a movie.  OR you will usually find me sewing with the kids watching a movie in the background.  I’ve gotten very good at listening to movies. ;)

Fabric line:  Oh my – right now ‘Out to Sea’ is my all time favorite.  I am loving the mermaids and the ship prints.

Color:  Pink, red, grey

Designer:  I love everything Bonnie & Camille create

Project completed by you: My first Chevron quilt, my Taffy Pull quilt made from Ruby and my Rainbow Hourglass quilt.

Project when you need a quick finish:  I make ‘stash bags’…generously sized zipper pouches.  I love to make them for an instant gratification.

Mustache ‘Stash bag’

Rainbow Hourglass

Taffy Pull

Least Favorites:

Color:  I am not a huge fan of brown, which I didn’t realize until I got a custom order for the brown Charlie Brown Chevron quilt, and realized that I never pick brown when I’m picking fabric.

Fabric line: I don’t like Batik’s….I don’t understand them.  I might be a bit of a fabric snob.  Please don’t judge me. ;)

Project completed by you:  My first quilt attempted….it was a disaster and shameful.   I used polyester batting (it’s EXTRA poufy), satin binding strips from JoAnn’s (EEEK) and I sewed the binding on backwards.  Yup….backwards so the frayed cut edges are facing towards the quilt front, with the stitches sewn on the right side.  Ugh.  For some reason I couldn’t figure out bindings for the life of me.  I went through a very dark time then.   I swore I’d never do another binding, then I ran into an awesome tutorial and CLICK!  I got it!  And now, binding is my most favorite part of the quilt process.  I love to take it and sit on my patio and finish hand stitching it on.  One of those things that once you figure out, you are like Duh-what was I thinking?
Although I hated this first quilt creation of mine, my oldest Robot daughter loved it and has spent many nights cuddling with it.  One of these days, I will cut that horrid satin binding off and replace it with something respectable.  LOL.

Big plans for 2012?

On my to-do list:

1.     I’ve mastered stippling and I just ordered Angela Walters book on FMQ.  I am excited to learn different ways to FMQ. 

2.     I have a Robot quilt I have started (a Robot Mom needs to have a Robot Quilt!) from Bo Davis’ book, “Dare to be Square”.  It is SO cute.  So far, I’ve got the Robot head and an arm.  I am tweaking the pattern a little bit as I’m a wee bit girly.  I’m excited to finish this.

3.     My little sister is getting married in December, so I will need to start on making the happy couple a quilt – of course!

My Red Scooter

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Follower Friday - Kelli!

Phew, I think life is finally starting to settle back into "normal"

After a hiatus last week

we're back in action now with

Kelli!

Specs:

Name:  Kelli

Family:  My loving husband, two sweet kiddos and our dog and cat.

Location:  North Central Florida

Blog:  www.smalltownstitcher.blogspot.com

Flickr:  I’m Kelli W or http://www.flickr.com/photos/23145638@N08/

Twitter:  not yet…I’m a hold out…

Etsy:  not yet…I’m too swamped with fun projects to get anything put in my empty shop!!

Day job:  Stay-at-home Mom and PTO Co-Chair J

Dream job:  just what I’m doing—only with more hours in the day so I could get more done!

What are you working on now?  A myriad of things—I’m finishing up a do. Good stitches quilt, a Christmas gift (from last year!) for my sister, a few Fall skirts and dresses for me and my cutie 8-yr-old and planning who will get the annual Christmas gift quilt from me this year.  I pick one person in my family each year to get a quilt for Christmas.  I like to spread the love slowly! 

Favorites:

Place:  The beach

Movie:  It depends on my mood.  I do love a good romantic comedy, but I’m just as apt to sit down and watch a spy thriller or action movie.  As long as there’s a good story, I’ll tune in. 

Food:  This one is hard to narrow down because I LOVE food.  That’s why I run so much!  But, for today, I’d narrow it down to potatoes, cheese, dark chocolate and steak!  Yum!

Way to spend a Friday night:  Somewhere with my husband and kiddos—whether it’s at a football game or home on the couch watching TV.  I love to be surrounded by the people I love best!

Fabric line:  I don’t have a favorite line—I usually pick out specific pieces in lines that I like best.

Color:  Yellow, aqua or hot pink

Designer:  I love the way both Anna Maria Horner and Amy Butler use both color and design.  I love Tanya Whelan’s romantic lines, and I love Ann Kelle’s use of color and geometric lines!

Project completed by you:  I don’t know if I have a favorite project because I love each (well mostly) one when I’m working on it, but lately I’ve loved the quilt I made for my son’s kindergarten teacher last spring and the big pillow I made for our aging dog.

Project when you need a quick finish:  I love to work on simple clothing when I need a quick finish.  A skirt for my daughter, some iron-on design cut on my Silhouette to a shirt or even a quick refashion…

Bandana Skirt:  http://www.smalltownstitcher.blogspot.com/2011/09/wip-wednesday-11.html 

Dress for me link:  http://www.smalltownstitcher.blogspot.com/2012/05/i-made-something.html

Shorts link:  http://www.smalltownstitcher.blogspot.com/2012/08/boy-shorts.html

Least Favorites:

Color:  Much to my daughter’s dismay, I’m going to say purple.  I don’t hate it, I’m just not drawn to it.  Much to my dismay, she’d wear purple every day if I didn’t offer other suggestions!  ;)

Fabric line:  There’s usually one or two fabrics in every line that I’m not fond of, but I can’t think of any line that I really just hate all of.  Although I will say I’m not a huge fan of novelty prints, generally speaking…

Project completed by you—Okay, let’s be real…If I don’t love it, it probably doesn’t get finished.  And if it doesn’t get finished, it’s probably not getting photographed for the blog.  ;)  So I’ve got nothing here for ya!

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Follower Friday - Katy

Anyone else feel like the weeks are just flying by??

We're back again for some

This week, with us is..

Katy!

Specs:

Name: Katy   

Family: A poor husband who spends his days surrounded by fabric, thread and hair dye and a beautiful little Kitty who is treated like royalty.

Location: Manchester, England      

Blog: http://misspixiecrafts.blogspot.co.uk/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/misspixiecrafts

Folksy: http://folksy.com/shops/MissPixieCrafts

Day job: Student

Dream job: Is fabric and kitten hoarder classed as a job? If not an Art Therapist would do me nicely.

What are you working on now?
I have just opened my own business selling my work so a lot of time is going into building my stock at the moment. I am also planning on making some of my embroidery designs into PDF’s to sell in the shop! There are a lot more animals in bow-ties to come from me yet.

Favorites:

Place: My craft room, it is so pretty and colorful. I could easily spend all day in there just looking at all the beautiful things but then I would never get anything done.

Movie: Sleeping Beauty. I am a sucker for Disney.

Food: At the moment sausages although it changes quite often. I do love a lamb roast with proper homemade roast potatoes. Or then again there is cake! Now cake I really love. I love my food and there are too many yummy choices to have a favorite.

Way to spend a Friday night: Curled up on the sofa with the kitty, stitching, eating sweeties and watching crime shows.

Fabric line: I love a lot Aneela Hoey fabric and purely for those gorgeous little foxes I must say ‘A Walk in the Woods'.

Color: Red or Blue… or Red or maybe Blue. BOTH!

Designer: If I had to choose then Alexander Henry, I love how quirky his prints are.

Project completed by you:

That’s a hard one. I like different things for different reasons. I will go with my Time Travelers Wife Embroidery though. It took so long and so much effort but I was really happy with it when I finally finished it. Close second would be the Fish in a Bowler Hat cushion because I adore the pattern! The fish pattern is my favorite one I have drawn and I am hoping to use it a lot more in the future.

  

Project when you need a quick finish:

It has to be pin-cushions and lavender sachets. I often don’t decide what they will be until last minute. I like to stitch and then see which I think fits best. I can knock these off so fast now it surprises me every time. I think I am an incredibly fast stitcher when it comes to hand embroidery. It must be all those hours of practice paying off.

I also really like to make cushions. Once they are stitched they don’t take too long to put together and they are so simple but effective.

Least Favorites:

Color: Normally I would instantly say Yellow but it is growing on me recently so maybe lime green.

Fabric line: Anything with thin stripes! Gives me a terrible headache.

Project completed by you:

It is probably one of my Dita embroideries. I didn’t have a big enough hoop to fit her in at the time so I had to move around a lot which meant they all ended up with loads of puckers.

Thankfully I managed to get at least one half-decent one to redeem it. I can’t be too happy with it though because it doesn’t look enough like her!

Follower Friday - Liz

We're back for another round of Follower Friday

and today we have

Liz!

Specs:

Name: Liz of Dandelion Daydreams Blog

Family: The Hubster (now a thirtysomething, just like me), two children –  affectionately known as The Dandelions – and the maddest Spaniel in the world

Location:  East Sussex, UK

Blog: http://lizofdandeliondaydreams.blogspot.co.uk/

I would really love some more followers, so please pop over to join me on my fabric adventure

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetiepups/

Day job:  Probate Lawyer by day, Sewista Extraordinaire by night! *chuckle*

Dream job:  Being a mum – the toughest but bestest job ever

What are you working on now?  This year I joined a Sewing Bee for the first time.  So, at the moment, I am working on my Bee blocks for this month.  It’s fantastic taking part in a bee, because it really pushes you out of your comfort zone and it is so much fun to play with other people’s fabric.  Kelly was our first Bee Mama and she asked for scrappy rainbow circles.  Here is my block.

Favorites:

Place:  Walt Disney World – I love that Mouse!  We had the most magical holiday there a couple of years ago. But I also really love the area that I live in.  There are the quaintest little higgledy-piggledy streets in Hastings Old Town.  Foyles War was filmed here.

Movie: Finnian’s Rainbow – it’s a really old movie starring Tommy Steele that I fell in love with when I was little.

I also love Garden State; High Fidelity; Speed and {blush} Twilight.  And any good comic strip film like Batman, X-Men and Spiderman
Food: at the moment it’s Veggie Sushi
Way to spend a Friday night: Early evening is my sewing time, so that would certainly feature in my favourite Friday night.  Followed by snuggles with the Dandelions and finally an episode of CSI (with Ted Danson) with the hubster on the sofa.

Fabric line: I am loving the new Liberty quilting fabrics and also Moda’s “Mama Said Sew” line, but my all time favourites have to be “Just Wing It” and “Neptune”

Color: Turquoise is my favourite colour, but red or dark grey are my favourite plain fabric colours.

Designer: Tula Pink or MoMo

Project completed by you: It just has to be the Japanese + and x table runner.  I love the fact that I only used scraps, so it was an economical make as well as turning out to be one of the most beautiful things I have sewn.

Project when you need a quick finish:  I love making pencil cases and pouches.  They go together fairly quickly but they are so practical.  I like to use what I make.  They also look really good with some handstitching or embroidery, which I am trying to get better at.

Least Favorites:

Color: Lilac, Mustard and Teal

Fabric line: I am not that keen on working with batik fabrics.

Project completed by you: The worst thing I ever made was my first attempt at some baby trousers for my little boy.  They were horrendous.  I really was not a natural when I started sewing and I am still pretty pants at making clothing of any kind.

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Thanks so much for sharing Liz!

I love that owl wall hanging!

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