Shemjo

Kathy, it looks scrumptuous! I also love the piece you have hanging, the circle thing. Looks really great. My space is not a neat as yours. It is a big job to get a quilt ready for quilting!

Butterflyspain

Oh boy is that looking good? I love your Mariners Compas as well on the wall.

Must go and check out Affairs of the Heart.

Elle

Butterflyspain

Checked it out and its beautiful, now I know why there were so many batiks bought on that shopping trip.

Elle

QuiltswithConvicts

Elle, Thanks for the compliment, but the only thing I've hand sewn in the past 13 years is my Baby. While I enjoy the calmness of hand work, I really love finishing things - usually quicker than Jane's Journey. I will be hand quilting JJ, but I am also doing a couple of BOMs that I've started - 2 for our local quilt club and the Carol Doak BOM - all on the machine. Paper piecing is my first love, followed by Celtic Applique, but I haven't done much of that lately. I was quilting a Celtic cross I designed, but got caught up in JJ, so it's sitting waiting for me to remember that I need to finish it. Also have a 4-panel seasons wall hanging that is ready for quilting, another applique quilt of a fancy-schmancy bird, and a quilt I saw in Quilter's Home Magazine that I downloaded and put together. It, too is unquilted. I have to be in the right frame of mind to quilt or I make a mess of it.

4 years ago DH bought me a Janome 6600P that I love, love, love. It's my 2nd Janome - the other is a MC 3000 that is as old as JJ! I try to use it on a regular basis, but since I come home from work tired, it's usually ignored until the weekend. This weekend it also has been left alone as I'm on a mission - which is now completed as JJ is completely basted and ready to quilt tonight. I am going to go say hello to my machine after I catch up here. My goal was to have JJ basted and ready to quilt BEFORE the first frost. It's November 14 & we STILL haven't had a frost. Came close a couple of times, but no frost, yet.

Hapy stitching!

QuiltswithConvicts

My favorite color is yellow, but black is #2. When I was younger, I loved bumble bees because they were yellow & black. My mother wasn't at all happy that I didn't want pink everything, so I got pink anyway! Idid finally get a yellow room, but only for a short time. My dear Great Aunt Katherine (after whom I'm named) died & I inherited a ton of her antiques. My bedroom became a very grown-up room quickly and was that way until I married.

Yes, I'm using a black background. I love the way black makes any color pop right off the block! I buy black by the bolt - use Hobby Lobby's 40% coupons to buy a bolt of Kona cotton black! That's also the way I buy Warm & Natural - by the bolt w/coupon! However, I'm out of batting and I want to try the new Pellon battings that appear very similar to W&N, but quite a bit less. JJ is sandwiched with Thermore. I can't believe how thin it is!

When you come over for coffee and dessert - how about molten lava cake? :)

Butterflyspain

Oh Kathy I wanna come and eat molten java cake it sounds delish.

QuiltswithConvicts

Now, I just need to find a recipe for it! By the time you get here, I should have it!

Beam her up, Scotty! Wouldn't that be a great thing to be able to do?

Butterflyspain

Oh darn it, its molten lava cake. I can find a recipe then you can beam me up, drooling over here

Elle

Becky13

Kathy - You're so kind! And that was my first impression of everyone else too. I'm VERY happy to be here :-)

sandpat

Kathy...love your JJ!! She looks gorgeous and almost like she is prissig laying on that table, all spread out!! LOL!! I love that Mariner's on the wall too...fabulous dahling!! It was funny, you were talking about that light being in all your shots...We have the exact same fixture over our kitchen table.

Becky...I love your avatar quilt also1 So simple, yet so elegant...perfect!

I guess its getting time for me to post some more weeks of Jane blocks. I'll try to get to that in the morning.