BOMs Away - Some Feathers to make room

        

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)

Sheesh! I am all out of whack these days! My brain is hyper focused on activities that normally get marginal attention, and so very "not into" my normal things. I'm sure it's because I'm in that La-La zone where you're waiting for a baby's imminent-but-unpredictable arrival any time in a month's span. My first grand-baby, half a continent away, during a pandemic, and I'm also in the middle of a concerted weight-loss and fitness-gaining effort. . . so. . . mental activity rides down a different track for now. 

I'm just going to embrace it. 

That being said, though, it was nice to tell myself that today being my day to post for BOMs Away, I really *must* get some quilting work done.

So I finished all the quilting on the ice blue areas of my king sized Dinner Plate Dahlia - consisting mostly of free-hand feathers. And that finishes that thread color.  :)

So now I've got that pretty monster unzipped from my frame to make way for this fun diversion to go on in the morning:

A green jungle-theme monthly photo quilt that Devon asked for. 

Gotta say, it's going to be so very fun to have a small, simple, fast quilt on the frame after getting half-way thru the mentally demanding king Dahlia. I love that quilt, but it taxes me to figure out how to quilt it to enhance all the things going on in it! 

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Have you worked on any BOM type projects recently? We'd love to see your progress!

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 - Book Break

       

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)

Oh!  I'm so sorry!

I abruptly decided to take a week off from all things quilting, and my brain's been hyper-focused on the audiobooks I help make.

We finished up the play Belinda, An April Folly in Three Acts, by A. A. Milne.   (Yep, that's the author of Winnie the Pooh fame, who also gave us this amusing romantic frolic.)  I love working with all the folks who help record, and also to everyone who oversees us and makes the covers for us (a much more finicky task than you'd think it would be!)  The audiobook is published now (and free) at 

Belinda: An April Folly in Three Acts

A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956) 

And we're hard at work on The Bat, by Mary Roberts Reinhart.  

This one will take a few more weeks to wrap up, as it's a dramatic reading, and it takes a while to gather everybody's recordings for all the chapters and then splice things together. It's rather like making an audio quilt! 

I've been volunteering with LibriVox for a couple of years, putting in 1-5 hours every week. This past week I enjoyed submerging all my free time into it.

And now, I'm headed over to my cutting table to draw out a monkey and an elephant to work up a Baby Photo quilt that my daughter asked for. Need to hustle on that, to beat Oliver if he decides to come early!  Official due date is 4 weeks from now. . .  Getting super excited to become a Grandma!!!

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Have you worked on any BOM type projects recently? We'd love to see your progress!

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

BOMs Away Monday - The Phone Edition

      

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)

Let's see if I can do this from my phone. . .

We're on a short weekend trip to spend the day with my Dad for his 80th birthday!  I hope I can be a spry 80 like this. I mean, the man still builds things like garages!

Before we hopped over the mountains, I put together the last batch of my 2021 Temperature Dots - 19 per row - 

And I had worked through 3 more colors on the bird wings of Heather & Pat's Love Birds quilt -

These middle-temps colors have a lot more work per color, so they run a lot longer on my work table. I was ridiculously happy when clearing 64 degrees let me pull the first packet, finished, out of the lineup! 

Who would think that with stretches of -17 degree lows and -6 degree highs (Farenheit), I'd have to get so far up the thermometer for any of the rows to be finished? I still have 4 summertime packets that haven't been brought into the work lineup.

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Have you worked on any BOM type projects recently? We'd love to see your progress!

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