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Sunday, March 29, 2020

BOMs Away - Thistlepods Spike Sets


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.)

How are you guys doing? Are you holding up alright? I washed a bunch of curtains yesterday and finished rehanging them today. I guess after 3 weeks, even us quilters start feeling the quarantine!

I got these sections made for my Thistle Pods project:


And I went through some storage space for spring cleaning - pulled out a BOM kit I got a couple years ago. Looking forward to getting that started this next week.

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Monday, March 23, 2020

BOMs Away - Thistlepod centers


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.)

Oops!  I was so busy distracting myself from pandemic worries last evening, I forgot to put the BOMs Away post up! 

Here's what I did over the weekend:


I got the next set of sections paper pieced for my Thistle Pods quilt. 36 of these babies.

I sure hope you're all still healthy. 

I'm glad quilting is an already-established part of my life that makes quarantining a much lighter mental burden than it is for some folks.


Interesting times, though, eh?  You can't even get a normal headache in peace, without having to discipline your mind away from premature worrying. 

Live smart, but not fearfully, these days.  :)  


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We would love to see any BOM work you're done lately.

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and linking up from either end puts you on the party at both sides.


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Sunday, March 15, 2020

BOMs Away - Bringing Out the Thistlepods


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.)

So.... Apparently I haven't done enough paper piecing in the past year. . . Guess I'm just in that groove, and my work areas are set up for it.

So I pulled out an old Judy Niemeyer kit from my cupboard and starting working on its first set of units for this week's BOM time:


These are for either 11" or 12" blocks, didn't measure them. 36 altogether.

They are from this kit:


Which I bought no later than October 2012 - yeesh!

And then prewashed all the fabrics in Oct 2018, deciding I wanted to replace the background fabric. 

The one I bought for that really tickled my fancy, recalling to mind a particularly magical drive home from Nebraska one evening, when snow flurries blew and hundreds of tumbleweeds rolled horizontally across I-76 in northeast Colorado. I remember being enchanted as well as feeling like we were in a video game, dodging the large rollers since there was no other traffic. Thistlepods aren't exactly tumbleweeds, but the combination of the design and the background fabric I found evoked the memory.

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Sunday, March 8, 2020

BOMs Away - Flimsy Alert ~ Dahlia's Blooming!


Welcome to the link-up for BOMs Away Mondays!
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so they don't stall out in UFO-land!
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Woohoo!! The fourth Dinner Plate Dahlia top is finished!

It's a good thing I left the king-sized one last to do in the set of 4. This one was so big, I wouldn't have made the others if it had been ahead in the queue.  :)

Dinner Plate Dahlia, a Judy Niemeyer pattern (queen size turned into king).
This is 116 x 108

There isn't a king size pattern for this one, so I spent a lot of time taping extra paper to the edges of the side pieces and oh-so-carefully extending the rays - and extending those curved seams coming off the arches in the center of each side gave me a LOT of worries about them matching up correctly. I procrastinated doing that seam for two solid weeks, because I had nightmare visions of them being off and puckering or bowling up - and then having to rework some replacement pattern pieces and hope to high heaven I had enough of the fabric left to cut new pieces. . . A lot can go wrong in 13 inches of curve! But when I finally sucked it up and stitched them, gave them a gentle press. . . voila! I lucked out big time, and they lay there flat as could be, with no puckering.


I'm really happy with how perfectly both situations turned out.


My corners were a little weird while I was working - you can see how the central diagonal seam is off-set from the quilt's outer corner. I shifted the outer border into a rectangle instead of a square when I extended the papers, because I wish the 114" square quilt we have on our bed right now wasn't so long at the foot. Had to be meticulous in making sure I was extending the correct side pieces in the longer- and super-longer lengths. But they worked out perfectly in the end. 

This is going to be one ginormous quilting job!  First, though, I have to quilt Heather's for her. Thank goodness that's not this huge!  ;D

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Monday, March 2, 2020

BOMs Away - Dahlia Quarters


Welcome to the link-up for BOMs Away Mondays!
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so they don't stall out in UFO-land!
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Here they are: My Dahlia quarters.  :)


Almost there! This next weekend should yield my king size Flimsy!



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We would love to see any BOM work you're done lately.

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and linking up from either end puts you on the party at both sides.

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