BOMs Away - Pulling out an Oldie but Goodie

 

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)

Whoa! I knew it had been quite a while since I'd worked on my Down the Rabbit Hole BOM, but I looked it up just now, and that project has been stalled since MARCH 2018, when I had prepped the rabbit pieces for the next border work. 

As deeply in love as I am with needle-turn hand stitch applique, I detest machine applique work - which is largely why this got shelved for so long. Also, it makes my head explode, figuring out how to adjust this round and the last round to make the quilt a king size instead of a queen.

Four and half hours later today, The first leaping rabbit is finished! So cute! 

These rabbits are quite large - you can see better perpective in this pic I'd taken when I was prepping the pieces. I'm using the edge-turn on freezer paper method for these, with a tiny blanket stitch using 50wt aurifil thread to sew them down.

 

Looking at my finished guy, I think I'll draw up some eye pieces and add those in when I do the next rabbit, rather than embroidering them on.

This is a Sarah Fielke design, and was her 2017 BOM program. Here is her finished quilt:

 I was doing mine in Easter colors, and had this much finished when I putzed out on it:

Now I intend to keep it on my active BOM list until it is finished! That means I have Water Reflections, Forever My Valentine, and Down the Rabbit Hole on rotation for weekend work to give me breathers from my priority piecing and quilting. 

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Have you been able to do any BOM type work lately? We'd love to see it.  :)

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