BOMs Away Monday - The Road Home

        

It's time for BOMs Away Monday!

Sharimg what we're doing on a BOM type project
so they don't stall out in UFO-land!
(Join us in our BOMs Away Facebook group)

This week I worked on my Road Home BOM.

I skipped ahead to Month 7, which was to augment the center block into a medallion unit:

And that wasn't too much work, so I made the 128 HSTs for Month 2 and put together the "claw" units for the sixteen 4-part bear claw blocks that are in that set of work.  This quilt has a large amount of low-volume space on it, as you can see by the lighter half of these units.

Now next month will be manageable for one weekend.  :)

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Did you work on a BOM type project this week? We'd love to see your progress!

You are welcome to join the new Facebook group that Kate, from Katie Mae Quilts, and I host. You will find the group at this link:

BOMs Away! - Quilters' block-of-the-month motivation

It is set up as a private group, meaning only members will see your posts there. We screen requests to join the group so that spammers won't get in and drive us all nuts. 

One great thing about this move is that we can post progress any time we want, and you won't be left hanging if we've gone on vacation and forgotten to set up an auto post with a linky party.

We hope to see you over there. I know I would not get a tenth the amount of BOM work done that I do without having this interaction to rely on. 

BOMs Away Easter weekend

       

Welcome to the Link-up for BOMs Away Mondays!

Where we share what we're doing on a BOM type project
so they don't stall out in UFO-land!
(Linky at the bottom)

Hello!  I hope you had a nice Easter

Our friends had an Easter kid born this year! So very precious. 

It was a quiet holiday for Scott and I - alone this year, but we had a good day together and nice Portal and phone chats with family.

I did actually get some BOM work sewn on Saturday. It was time to open my Alaska Rainbow box! Month 1 was to sew four of Block 1, and that went lickety-split since they came cut out and ready to go.

And since I had more sewing time available, I put together Block 1 of the next BOM: The Road Home.

A few days ago I had finished Block 12 of Affairs of the Heart during TV time:

And that's all I have for you.  :) 

Although, very, very soon I'll have a Flimsy to share!

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Did you work on a BOM type project this week? We'd love to see your progress!

Kate over at Katie Mae Quilts has joined me in hosting this meet-up, and linking up from either end puts you on the party at both sides.

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I have an announcement to make regarding BOMs Away Mondays. 

Subscription prices keep going up everywhere, including the one for having linky parties on your blog. After April, BOMs Away will no longer be held in this format. Instead, it is moving to a Facebook group! 

Kate and I will continue posting linky parties here each week for one more month, but you can also already access the new location:

BOMs Away! - Quilters' block-of-the-month motivation

The group is set up as a private group, meaning only members will see your posts there, and we will be screening requests to join the group so that spammers won't get in and drive us all nuts. One great thing about this move is that we can post progress any time we want, and you won't be left hanging if we've gone on vacation and forgot to set up an auto post with a linky party for you.

We hope to see you over there. I know I would not get a tenth the amount of BOM work done that I do without having this little "association" to post to. 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

BOMs Away - Sage & Sea Glass

      

Welcome to the Link-up for BOMs Away Mondays!

Where we share what we're doing on a BOM type project
so they don't stall out in UFO-land!
(Linky at the bottom)

This month's Sage & Sea Glass work was to turn these 20 pieces . . . 

. . . into giant flying geese, using the piano key blocks from a prior month.

I'm a little surprised I only turned one the wrong way around (and had to build a new block to fix it).

But fix it, I did.

And then I had several hours of time available while Scott was working on something, so I started in on the next month's work.

I got all the applique pieces traced, cut, and fused - so next month I can get right to work stitching those down.

Which means: The end of this BOM has come into sight. It's just there, on the horizon, waving at me. Hmm. Taunting me, actually! lol  (because there's still quite a bit of work remaining.

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I have an announcement to make regarding BOMs Away Mondays. 

Subscription prices keep going up everywhere, including the one for having linky parties on your blog. After April, BOMs Away will no longer be held in this format. Instead, it is moving to a Facebook group! 

Kate and I will continue posting linky parties here each week for one more month, but you can also already access the new location:

BOMs Away! - Quilters' block-of-the-month motivation

The group is set up as a private group, meaning only members will see your posts there, and we will be screening requests to join the group so that spammers won't get in and drive us all nuts. One great thing about this move is that we can post progress any time we want, and you won't be left hanging if we've gone on vacation and forgot to set up an auto post with a linky party for you.

We hope to see you over there. I know I would not get a tenth the amount of BOM work done that I do without having this little "association" to post to. 

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Did you work on a BOM type project this week? We'd love to see your progress!

Kate over at Katie Mae Quilts has joined me in hosting this meet-up, and linking up from either end puts you on the party at both sides.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

BOMs Away - 2021 Temperature Quilt

        

Welcome to the Link-up for BOMs Away Mondays!

Where we share what we're doing on a BOM type project
so they don't stall out in UFO-land!
(Linky at the bottom)

I finally got the final set of temperature dots and the key panel all stitched down this weekend.

Now I can finish assembling the whole quilt top!

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I have an announcement to make regarding BOMs Away Mondays. 

Subscription prices keep going up everywhere, including the one for having linky parties on your blog. After April, BOMs Away will no longer be held in this format. Instead, it is moving to a Facebook group! 

Kate and I will continue posting linky parties here each week for one more month, but you can also already access the new location:

BOMs Away! - Quilters' block-of-the-month motivation

The group is set up as a private group, meaning only members will see your posts there, and we will be screening requests to join the group so that spammers won't get in and drive us all nuts. One great thing about this move is that we can post progress any time we want, and you won't be left hanging if we've gone on vacation and forgot to set up an auto post with a linky party for you.

We hope to see you over there. I know I would not get a tenth the amount of BOM work done that I do without having this little "association" to post to. 

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Did you work on a BOM type project this week? We'd love to see your progress!

Kate over at Katie Mae Quilts has joined me in hosting this meet-up, and linking up from either end puts you on the party at both sides.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

BOMs Away - Two Flimsies!

 

BOMs Away - Heather & Pat's documentation panels and some Affairs of the Heart

                    

Welcome to the Link-up for BOMs Away Mondays!

Where we share what we're doing on a BOM type project
so they don't stall out in UFO-land!
(Linky at the bottom)

I put my hustle on this weekend and scored TWO flimsies in my BOM projects!

Saturday I wrapped up Heather & Pat's love birds Temperature Quilt top:

It is 96.5 x 106 inches, and I have some fancy-pants quilting planned for it. There are 3 quilts ahead of it at my longarm, though.

Sunday I put the last borders onto my Neptune's Gift:

This is 86 inches square, and I have no idea when it will get a turn on the longarm. Hopefully not too long from now, because it's amazing. 

Interestingly, my stitch-off project, Feathered Goose, also wrapped up this weekend! In fact, there were exactly as many units left to stitch a seam on as I had rounds of sewing on those two BOM tops. Kinda fun, actually!  This goes onto my domestic machine priority list to put the top together when I sew during the work week. It was very much a Happy Dance weekend!

(Except, now I have to prep whatever will be my next stitch-off project - but, boy are there plenty untouched kits in the storage room to choose from . . . )

I've organized the next BOM that I'm going to pull into my rotation since two are now off my list. Here are my colors (selected from left-overs from my Rainbow Dear Jane BOM from years ago) for Cadence Court, by Sassafras Lane:

I had almost everything I need in my stash, but I do need to pick up a couple yards of assorted blacks to augment my background and binding yardage. 

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I have an announcement to make regarding BOMs Away Mondays. 

Subscription prices keep going up everywhere, including the one for having linky parties on your blog. After April, BOMs Away will no longer be held in this format. Instead, it is moving to a Facebook group! 

Kate and I will continue posting linky parties here each week for one more month, but you can also already access the new location:

BOMs Away! - Quilters' block-of-the-month motivation

The group is set up as a private group, meaning only members will see your posts there, and we will be screening requests to join the group so that spammers won't get in and drive us all nuts. One great thing about this move is that we can post progress any time we want, and you won't be left hanging if we've gone on vacation and forgot to set up an auto post with a linky party for you.

We hope to see you over there. I know I would not get a tenth the amount of BOM work done that I do without having this little "association" to post to. 

~*~*~*~

Did you work on a BOM type project this week? We'd love to see your progress!

Kate over at Katie Mae Quilts has joined me in hosting this meet-up, and linking up from either end puts you on the party at both sides.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

BOMs Away - Heather & Pat's documentation panels and some Affairs of the Heart

                    

Welcome to the Link-up for BOMs Away Mondays!

Where we share what we're doing on a BOM type project
so they don't stall out in UFO-land!
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Hello! 

I got all the itty-bitty letters and hearts for the documentation panels cut out and fused down for Heather & Pat's temperature quilt:

Some of them have been stitched down - you can see the gradation of the temperature key colors better in this photo:

and then I was having trouble with vertigo at the machine, so I switched over to hand stitching.

I'd been working on my Affairs of the Heart blocks during evening TV time all week and gotten this far before I'd put them away for the weekend -

And then I finished this one up after I needed to leave the machine today:

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Did you work on a BOM type project this week? We'd love to see your progress!

Kate over at Katie Mae Quilts has joined me in hosting this meet-up, and linking up from either end puts you on the party at both sides.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

BOMs Away - Vacation, Family, and some Affairs of the Heart work

                    

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We've been having an eventful couple of weeks! 

Scott and I met up with my folks and their friends to do a Nassau/Dominican Republic cruise. It was a very nice visit that I wasn't sure we'd be able to do, until the latest super-spike of Covid nose dived just in time for us to do this. 

Visited with a sea lion, meandered through a mountain-top botanical garden and fun town streets, saw a historic fort, and did a wee bit of BOM work on my Affairs of the Heart project.

And just 36 hours after getting home to Colorado, our daughter and hubby brought our grandbaby out for a visit! I'm in heaven.  :)

Oh!  Here are those BOM blocks I worked on during sea days - 

Block 9 is finished

blocks 10 - 13 in progress

(using the back-basting technique for needle turn hand applique)

This project was lost for many years, but was returned to me a little while ago. Nice to be able to work on it again. Other hand projects have priority, so it's put away again for now, but this is supremely portable, so it got to come out for vacation time.

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Did you work on a BOM type project this week? We'd love to see your progress!

Kate over at Katie Mae Quilts has joined me in hosting this meet-up, and linking up from either end puts you on the party at both sides.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

BOMs Away - Heather & Pat's Love Birds

                   

Welcome to the Link-up for BOMs Away Mondays!

Where we share what we're doing on a BOM type project
so they don't stall out in UFO-land!
(Linky at the bottom)

This week was for the temperature quilt that celebrates Heather and Pat's first year of marriage (which is intended for their 6th anniversary near the end of this year).

All the birds are connected in large panels of eight rows, except the final set, which needs me to make the key panel to finish connecting those. I also need to make the applique header to add at the top of the quilt, and then I'll put the 8 panels together. I'll address all that in a couple of weeks and have this flimsy put together by month's end.  I have some fancy-pants plans for the quilting on this. 

While sewing together birds and birds and birds, I needed to prep another round for my stitch-off project, Feathered Goose - and it's on the very last seam of the final set!

Oh! This weekend for BOM time, I also got the backing stitched up and the binding made for Neptune's Gift. I don't know when it will get a turn on the longarm, but these are ready to go when it does.

Speaking of Neptune's Gift, that one will be finished after one more weekend of attention on it, so I'll need the next BOM prepped. The kit I'd purchased last year (or was it 2020?) has been sitting out in the "quilt parlor" for several months, and I needed to get that room cleaned up for company coming soon. So I finished washing/ironing the fabrics for The Road Home.

After some 13 or 14 hours of careful cutting, it is all kitted into 9 bags, which I estimate will take 13 months of BOM work to produce the final top. Luckily, I hadn't purchased backing for it, because the full-BOM kit came with ridiculously generous yardage (as in 3/8 - 7/8 extra yard for every single fabric in the pattern). So I'll be making a patchwork backing of some sort to use those up.

All in all, it was a phenomenal BOM week here!

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Did you work on a BOM type project this week? We'd love to see your progress!

Kate over at Katie Mae Quilts has joined me in hosting this meet-up, and linking up from either end puts you on the party at both sides.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter