BOMs Away - Celebrating!!!

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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WHOO HOO!!!!

She did it!!

Our oldest has reached a tremendous milestone - FOURTEEN YEARS AGO Heather started the long haul to become a doctor (she knew back in 8th grade this is what she wanted to do), and this week she graduated with her M.D.!!

And now a whole gang of us are embarking right now on a Caribbean cruise to celebrate!

In 2016 she married a man she'd know since high school days, and our families being friendly with each other, his mom and I decided that day that we would make this cruise happen for this occasion. And now it's here.  :)  

Some things in Life are just fantastic, and having the entirety of both families along for this special vacation (and Grandpa & Grandpa for a bonus!) is definitely one of those. 

I did finish up some more Dahlia pieces before packing/cleaning overtook my days:

I hope you have a good week wherever you are, and whatever you're doing,

and let us know if you've done any BOM work lately!

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Have you done any BOM work lately?

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BOMs Away - Label Time

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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I love having good labels on my quilts, but I'm not so great at making them promptly. . . 

So I spent this week's BOM time catching four of them up, since I need to take Ruffled Roses over to Scott's mom tomorrow.

I like having a lot of information on my labels - quilt's name, date(s) and places(s) of working on it, name of designer if I didn't make it up myself, the person it's intended for, etc. I also really love to applique elements from the front on it, and/or doing backing or framing with scraps from the quilt's construction.

Sure, a thief could rip off the label, but they'd find that I also perma-ink my name and construction dates right onto the quilt underneath it. Plus, I document my quilts a lot, so I can always prove ownership (or fraud, if someone entered my quilt in a show as their own).

One of the labels did double duty as a patch over a couple of rips. I love the way it turned out, looking like it's in a school of fish with the quilted fish showing on the back.

This quilt was finished a good 18 months ago, must be, but I'm that lazy with label making if it's not being gifted right away. I'm super happy those rips happened on one of our family's quilts, and not a customer quilt. 

I had just bought a new power protection box for my longarm, and this quilt was on the frame when I first used it. The first time I turned it on, then turned on my longarm, the machine FREAKED out and super-blitzed a bunch of spastic stitching, which ended up breaking the needle and punching through the quilt. (Now I know I have to let the box power up a good 6-8 seconds before turning the machine on.) 

The back got the worst of it, by far. This label solves the issue of covering the messy darning stitches. On the front, I'm about to sit down and broidery perse a little 1" fishy from one of the prints used in the quilt top over the single hole on that side.

. . . And there it is - cutely mended in a way that fits right in.  :)

:)

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Did you get any BOM work finished lately?

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BOMs Away - From the Heart & Devon's Dahlia

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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Happy Mother's Day to those of us in the U.S.!  :)

This week I finished the hand applique for Block 7 of my "From the Heart" project

And Navarre approves.

I also got these unit sets paper pieced for Devon's Dinner Plate Dahlia:

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Have you done any BOM work lately?

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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BOMs Away - From 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.)

Hi, there! This week has been all about customer work, so the only BOM work I've accomplished is a little more work on my current evening TV-time hand applique project, on Block 7 of From the Heart:

I think this one's super cute, now that it's getting closer to being finished.  :)

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Have you done any BOM work lately?

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!

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May OMG

Well, my April OMG fell to the wayside when my machine went on the blitz, so here's to a fresh month and a new goal on another machine:

 For my May OMG, I want to get all the stabilization quilting finished on Heather's graduation quilt. 

First I have the very fun "Lloyd & Lola" customer quilt to finish up, and then I can start in on this almost-queen-size challenge.