My New Best Friend and Fan Girl Moment

 

Allow me to introduce you to my new best friend, "JJ" which is short for Jakki's Juki!  Juki is the brand of the new sewing machine that Santa brought me for Christmas.  I loved my old sewing machine and it has served me well the past 4-5 years but I feel like I have gone from a Prius to a Porsche!

In the past three days I was able to make a whole quilt top.  This machine purrs and goes through fabric like butter.  I think Tom might be getting a little jealous with the amount of time we've been spending together.

 Now I'm looking forward to free motion quilting this with JJ.

I'm looking forward to making a lot of projects this year - I have a long list of quilt patterns that I really want to try making.  I've started following Pat Sloan's Facebook group, blog and daily YouTube videos. She shares so much great advice and patterns.  The snowflake quilt above is one of her patterns.  I posted this photo on the group page and Pat Sloan herself commented "Awesome" - talk about a total fan girl moment.  I squealed when I read it and Tom looked at me like I had lost my mind!!  She's like quilting royalty AND SHE THOUGH MY QUILT WAS AWESOME!!!!  I'm going to bed tonight a very happy girl 😘