Crafty weekend: A Sew Off!

Dan and I decided that we would do a more traditional smaller Christmas this year. We are doing this for a couple of reasons, 1) money is a bit tight right now, 2) there is always an overload on Christmas morning and 3) The boys really don't need anything right now. With that in mind I decided that I would make some presents this year. After scouring the black Friday ads I saw that JoAnn's had flannel on sale for $1.49 (that's very cheap) a yard. So, I was bound and determined that we would be hitting JoAnn's second on our stops (Kohl's opened first so we went there first)

Mom, Melinda, Sabrina and I hit JoAnn's and it was pretty funny everyone split up and mom and Melinda hit the section that I would normally run to...the Scrapbook Section. I grabbed a cart and Sabrina came with me and we fought our way through the fabric section. I was very impressed with the selection of flannel that JoAnn's had. After Melinda and mom got what they needed from the scrapbook section (mom got a Cricut!!!!) Melinda got in line for the cutting of fabric and Sabrina and I kept piling more and more fabric in the cart. I was pretty bad at one point I was actually looking in other people's cart and asking if they were going to get "all of the fabric on that bolt" it was all good natured and everyone was really nice and chatty. We probably had to wait about an hour in line, but it didn't seem to bad because we were still checking out fabrics. Once the poor lady started cutting my fabric it took her about an hour. Finally Sabrina had to pull me away and tell me "Aunt Jen you have enough" she ended up dragging me out of the store lol!!

Sabrina wanted to come over and help me make some rag quilts. So we went and picked her up and brought her back to our house. Dan helped us set up both of our sewing machines next to each other and we went to work. Man that girl can cut and sew!! She was such a huge help and we really enjoy having her with us. We said we were going to have a sew off, but her machine was definitely faster than mine so even though she won she didn't rub it in my face :)

Jennifer