Saving!

Before I begin with my savings post I need to tell you that I went to the AQS Quilt Show in Paducah, KY. It is a big thing in the quilt world. I enjoyed it. I went last year with a group of friends and this year only 3 others were going to go. But one got sick and another had to many things going on, so it was just me and Carol. We had lots of fun shopping and looking at all the beautiful quilts. Really works of art. We left at 7am and got back about 8pm. The river was flooding so they had to put up the flood gates and had to move some of the show to different locations but not hard to find and we had a great time.

Ok now for the savings. These were my shopping trips last week. At CVS I did two transactions so I could use my extra care bucks immediately. I haven't done this before because I feel bad for the people in line behind me, but I waited for a lull in people and went ahead.

I got the milk and Zaditor for $13.72 using coupons and got $1 ECB and $3 ECB.

I then bought this candy for $1.37 with a coupon and the ECB's I just got.  I also had to get a rain check for the cheerios and shaving cream on sale they didn't have. I saved $14.36 on both of these transactions together.

Then at Walgreen's I got this.

My total with coupons was $8.79. My total savings was $22.03. I wanted to get some Cream with Mushroom soup but they were out of stock so I got a rain check.

This is not a massive haul, but I am not the extreme couponer that needs to buy things I don't use just because and I haven't figured out how to get everything for free. Saving money is a good thing though and that is why I use coupons.

Have a wonderful day.

Two finishes

Ok, I have a pile of finished quilt tops that have been yelling at me to "quilt and bind us" for awhile now. One was the Chocolate quilt that I made for Dave. I was going to quilt it on Sally (My friends long arm machine), but as I was crawling around on the floor pinning it together it was telling me to straight stitch it with my machine at home, so here it is........

Not a very good picture. Here is the back.....

The other on that I finished is called Round and Round. It was a quilt along on a blog called Crazy Mom Quilts. She would put up a section of instructions each week and we would have the week to finish up til the next part would be put up. They are fun. But sometimes I'd get behind. Or I would finish really fast and have to wait for the next instructions. Well enough explanation.

You can't see the colors very well but I love the blues and greens together. Here is the back. It is just blocks of a few of the fabrics from the front.

I did straight line quilting on this one also. Three lines in the cream fabric and I stitched in the ditch on the patchwork. This is one of my favorites. Have I said that about too many?

I have also been helping the SA branch sew some quilts they are making to donate. They are cutting 10'' squares and sewing 8X10 quilts. And I'm slowly working on my quilt camp quilt. Pictures of that soon. Have a wonderful day!