New projects and new toys

In order to relieve the mounting pressure to catch up, I dove into my projects head first this weekend and finished a new pattern project to debut at market as well as started and made some decent headway on a new quilt that's for my book.

Then.. ahem... there was the trip to Sew Expo in Puyallup, WA on Saturday which yielded the purchase of a new sewing machine! Pictured are both my new project, a lovely bright and cheery yellow white and green quilt along with my new Janome Memory Craft 6600 that I have affectionately named "Alice". Boats and cars get names, why not sewing machines? :)