BOMs Away - Scott's Wildlife Mini #3, Marissa's Dahlia, and the concept of ours

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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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This was a good BOM week for me. I made the base for the third of Scott's Wildlife mini quilts that he requested. This will get trees, grass, little birds, and a mother bear with her cub after I do the background quilting. (Which has to wait until my machine gets serviced.)

I paper pieced several of the unit sets for Marissa's Dinner Plate Dahlia:

And I made my final decision on which coloration I wanted to use for the king-sized Dahlia for Scott and my bed. 

I played around in Quiltster a lot to come up with this one. The first three Dinner Plate Dahlia tops you've seen me working on were colorways that were already designed by different sponsoring shops. This one is colored to go perfectly with our room. I'll be pulling from stash and store purchases, which isn't as daunting now that I've put together two tops already and am working on the third. I'm getting pretty intimately acquainted with how things mesh together and a good idea of how the colors get affected by the others. Still, hopefully it'll come out the way I envision it!!

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(WIP Wed) Swan Island <~ that happened.

Wow! It's been a long time since I've done a WIP Wed post. I surprised myself yesterday, though.

It was my birthday. I was house-bound ALL day long, because from 7-5 the driveway and all walkways, stoop, and patio were being worked on, and then from 5-11 because the sealer couldn't be driven over, and I foolishly thought I wouldn't need my car out. . .

And then I was looking up some quilting ideas in Instagram, and: BAM!!  Elizabeth Hartman's "Swan Island" pattern smacked me in the eye!

There couldn't be a more perfect lap quilt for my bedroom suite with the swan theme in my remodeled bathroom. I mean, seriously! 

So I went shopping online and put together the fabric pull I want to use for mine.

Pretty, isn't it?

I'll put this in my BOM rotation for two reasons. My piecing and quilting time is already occupied for a good two or three months, leaving Saturdays for whatever-I-want sewing. Also, two of the accent fabrics I want are not available until Nov/Dec. 

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BOMs Away Monday

Welcome to the link-up for BOMs Away Mondays!

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Wow! It's been quite a long time since I've done any "normal" patchwork piecing. 

Putting together the patchwork blocks for my "From the Heart" was kind of fun for a change:

(edited in) Oh! I forgot to say - 

I also finished cutting out all the pieces for Marissa's Dinner Plate Dahlia.

This is the third one of these, and I'm getting faster at it now. It "only" took 9 hours and 40 minutes of cutting to produce this ready-to-go box!

This colorway is a modified kit. It's the Kaffe Fassett choice, but when I was ironing the fabrics after washing them a couple months ago, all the high-contrast dots-Dots-DOTS everywhere kept triggering migraines. Marissa is susceptible to migraines, too, so it didn't take much to decide we wanted to switch out some of the components to get away from that! 

Namely, these culprits, which both had a lot of play in the original kit, used as neutrals against the other very busy prints:

It didn't take too much to tone it down enough to stop triggering migraines. Just two background switch-outs and the big purple arches - all of which are replaced with tamer Kaffe fabrics, so it's still a straight-up Kaffe Fassett Dinner Plate Dahlia.  :)

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BOMs Away - From the Heart block 9

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Hello, there.  :)  

I can share my finished block 9 for my "From the Heart" BOM:

Now I have some pieced blocks to make before this can be assembled.

And

 

Did you see that I shared the fully assembled Dinner Plate Dahlia for Devon's colorway?

80 x 80 in.

I like the Judy Niemeyer Technique-of-the-Month patterns, as I usually learn one (if not several) new techniques. I'll be an old hat at the tricks this quilt pattern held by the time I'm finished with #3 and #4!

Hey, I'm going to put another call-out for TGIFF here - 

Do you have a finish that's almost ready? Would you like to host a TGIFF link-up at your blog? (We can supply linking code, so you don't need your own subscription for that.)

Dates available are August 23, September 13, and December 6 and 20. 

The sign up sheet is at This Link.

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But back to you! How are your BOMs doing lately?

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TGIFF is Here! - Devon's Dinner Plate Dahlia is a Flimsy!!

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This is a big-deal finish for me to be able to show, even though it's actually a half-way point. If you've ever made one of the more complicated Judy Niemeyer or Jacqueline DeJong quilts, you would know why!!

80 x 80 inches

Many, many hours went into the cutting-out, alone, of this top, and many, many more into the paper piecing and assembly work. But here it is, Devon's "Dinner Plate Dahlia" in the colorway she wanted!

Devon just did a 109-mile bike event at Big Bear Lake in southern California:

This is a Judy Niemeyer paper piecing pattern. 

It has quite a few more spots than normal for her where you have to match intersections exactly. I did a good bit of unpicking and resewing, and I'm well pleased with the end result.

I both dread and look forward to the one I need to get to work on for Marissa. Each of our three girls will have one of these, and then I'm going to make the larger size for Scott & I to put on our king bed. Sometimes I self-commit to the most insane projects!!!!! 

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BOMs Away - California Edition

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Hi! I'm enjoying a sort of survey vacation of southern-to-central California with our daughter, Devon.

We spent two nights in San Diego, where we did a private yoga session on Sunset Cliffs, walked the beach and hiked the bluffs of Torrey Pines State Reserve, and met up for dinner with two of my favorite high school friends!

Then we spent two nights in Big Bear Lake, where Devon rode the 109 mile route in the Tour de Big Bear bicycle event. 

And now we're spending two nights outside Sequoia National Park so we can do some easy hikes to see the biggest-volume tree in the world (General Sherman), climb up Moro Rock, and do the Meadow-something loop.

It's difficult posting from my phone, so I'll put more pics up when I'm home.

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