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Sunday, July 28, 2019

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.)

I finished piecing Devon's Dinner Plate Dahlia, but I'm going to save that for a future time to share.

Tonight, after many weeks, I pulled out the final applique block for my From the Heart BOM and worked on wings while we finished the latest season of Stranger Things:


I haven't done any of my evening handstitching since May. I've been burying my empty-nest blues in pointless phone games during the shows. I was finally finished with having nothing to show for my sit-down time, so it was nice to get back into this work again!


P.S. - We have two openings in the next weeks for someone to host TGIFF on their blog. If you have a finish coming up (project completely finished, or a big stage finished, such as a complicated top or demanding set of blocks), this would be a fun way for you to share it and to have a day where people link up on your blog.
**You do not have to own a link-up subscription, as we managers can provide code for you to use.

If you'd like to host a TGIFF Blog link-up for finishes, you can sign up at this link: TGIFF Hosting SignUps

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How are your BOMs doing 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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Sunday, July 21, 2019

BOMs Away - Now We're Talkin'!


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.)

Don't you love it when you finally break through all the meticulous foundation work to the point where things start coming together "quickly"?!

This week I started the assembly process on Devon's Dinner Plate Dahlia. It's not actually a quick job, being all precise curved piecing, but it's so very satisfying!

I got this far, stacked in sets of 4:


It's kind of fun to me to work backward, contructing a quilt from the outer border to the center instead of assembling a center and adding the borders. I may just have this quilt top finished for next week's BOM!  

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How are your BOMs doing 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!

Click here to enter

Sunday, July 14, 2019

BOMs Away - Petals and Spears and a Tip


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's BOM harvest - 
24 petals paper pieced and 12 curved-9-patch spears:


And a tip for curved piecing that is glue prepped: Keep Sewer's Aid and a speck of felt-like cotton batting on hand so you can swip it down the needle between units. Works wonders at preventing skipped stitches. Also great when stitching/quilting through layers of fusible webbing.



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How about you? Have you done work on your BOMs 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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Sunday, July 7, 2019

BOMs Away - More Dahlia pieces


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.)

Most of this weekend was "lost" to trimming overgrown chokeberry shrubs and cutting down dead trees (we've lost a bunch of Aspens to some strange tree disease that there's no treatment for  - very sad). 

But I did get these sets of pieces put together for Devon's Dahlia quilt:


There are only two more sets of paper piecing left!

Are you guys ready to share some BOM work since you've had two weeks of waiting?!

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How about you? Have you done work on your BOMs 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!

Click here to enter