BOMs Away Monday - 4 Mar - Kelly's Stars Round 2

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We'd love to see the BOM you're working on lately.
This week's link-up is at the bottom of this post.

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY to my oldest daughter!! 

I can't believe I have a 21yo. Inconceivable.

She's so bright and vibrant, she brings a lot of joy to my life. I really wish her college wasn't so very far away from home, but I'm thrilled that it became a possibility for her to go to the school of her dreams.

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Boy! The BOM project I do on the first week of the month is just getting stuck in molasses every time. I pulled out Kelly's dual set to finish the second part of the Month 1 work (last month I did the 10 small stars and left the 8 double stars for this month).  

Well, after many hours of work, I got the first 4 of the double-ray stars finished. I was just finishing the patches for the outer ring of the last 4 stars (the red bursts are all constructed) when my piecing machine had some kind of motor issue that renders it unwise to do anymore on it until it's seen a doctor. So I'll finish the last ring of those four next month.

The other issue I had with these was that there wasn't enough of the yellow fabric to keep that part uniform on every star. Kelly had 2 large civil-war charm packs in the fabric box, and after re-scrutinizing all the fabrics, I deduced that she had included those apparently superfluous packs for times like this. So I subbed in 3 charms. One of the finishes from today shows how I did that.

I actually really like the effect.  :)

(And this is the orientation they'll sit in for the quilt top)

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 What have you guys done on BOMs or interval projects lately? Weeklies are welcome along with regular projects that you’ve broken into monthly units, and –of course- true BOMs.   Share your eye candy and show off your progress since the last time you linked up! There are some wonderful monthly and weekly projects going on out there.