BOMs Away - A Christmas Visit and a little Neptune's Gift

               

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Hello  :)   I sure hope you had a nice Christmas. We made a quick trip out to Florida so we could visit with our two daughters and son-in-laws out there and see our grandbaby again. It was splendid! I just wish I'd been better focused on getting pictures of all of us. Still, here are a few gems:

Such a huge smile from him right off the bat!

I did actually let GrandPop have turns with him, too.  :)

Old Man Lupin loved him, even during crying bouts, and looked for Baby Oliver after they left. So funny! (the perspective of this photo makes Oliver look much smaller than he really is)

Oliver was absolutely mesmerized with this shirt!

A family walk around neighborhood walks - the lights enchanted him.

And a moment with Aunt Heather  :)

We even managed to get a wee bit of work done on the house the day after Christmas - gutters cleaned out, some old caulking torn out and replaced, a bit of trim painting, and some prep work to paint the second bathroom. Not super productive on this end of things, but Baby time and holiday closures cut into that capability.

We got back very late last night, but before we left, I managed to do the Month 9 work for Neptune's Gift, which was to insert the central compass in the background square (this is about 5 feet square):

No delivery of the Month 11 kit was awaiting our return, so as I start working on Month 10, I'm caught up with this BOM!  That makes me very happy. 

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BOMs Away - An Impressive Compass Rose

              

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Boom!!  The Month 8 work on Neptune's Gift (the red and orange N-S-W-E arms and assembly) yields this amazingly gorgeous compass rose:

It is something like 5 feet across.

I also got all the edges turned on the penultimate set of temperature dots - will get those glue-basted onto their backgrounds this week. No pic, though. The only dots left after these will be the final 5 weeks of the year, which I'll cut out on Jan 1st or 2nd. 

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BOMs Away - Neptune's Gift, Stitch-Off, Dots, and a Buck

             

Welcome to the Link-up for BOMs Away Mondays!

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Hello  :)

This week I picked up and finished the work for Month 7 on my Neptune's Gift block of the month:

These pieces are getting quite big! Now to catch up months 8 and 9, because 10 just arrived! That would be super if I can catch this up by the time 11 gets here.

While I was doing that, I prepped the next round of my Stitch-Off project, as I'd worked through the stack a while ago. These pieces are almost finished up! Just one more set of units, then this project will be ready for assembly.

(This is my Judy Niemeyer Feathered Goose quilt, from which I keep a stack of prepped units alongside my work area so I can grab one and put it through the machine after I've finished a round of work on my focus project. This lets me snip an entire set of chain piecing off the sewing machine, leaving the Stitch-Off piece on the thread. When I return with the next stage of chain piecing, I don't have to fiddle with holding the thread ends to start off fresh stitching - and over time it does save a significant amount of thread, for a bonus benefit.) 

I got the next batch of dots basted into turned-edge circles, and then glue-basted onto their background squares. This set brings me into October. Here are 4.5 weeks worth of temps, stacked by dot color:

Birds continue to get their finish-work attention during TV time. I have about 1/3 of them squared away now. No pic, though. 

But I do have a pic of this beautiful buck spending lunch time resting in our back yard a couple days ago. Isn't he gorgeous? He was here again last night with four sweet does. Guess they think he's gorgeous, too!  

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BOMs Away Monday - More Dots and Birds

            

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My catch-up work is going well with both Temperature quilts. Got this first set of dots stitched down and sewn together:

(Interesting how the camera warped the perfectly straight line - it was on normal setting, not panaramic, but the battery was super low, so maybe that had something to do with it?)

Still working on basting the circles of the second set. 

Got all the remaining bird wings stitched down:

Several sets are paper-cleared and tail-tucked:

And this giant pile remains to have that done - perfect TV-time work.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who can't just sit and watch TV without doing something with my hands.  :) 

Now that these two "BOMs" are moved forward significantly, I'm planning on hitting my Neptune's Gift next weekend to see how far I can catch it up. 

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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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