BOMs Away - Heather & Pat's Love Birds

                   

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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 week was for the temperature quilt that celebrates Heather and Pat's first year of marriage (which is intended for their 6th anniversary near the end of this year).

All the birds are connected in large panels of eight rows, except the final set, which needs me to make the key panel to finish connecting those. I also need to make the applique header to add at the top of the quilt, and then I'll put the 8 panels together. I'll address all that in a couple of weeks and have this flimsy put together by month's end.  I have some fancy-pants plans for the quilting on this. 

While sewing together birds and birds and birds, I needed to prep another round for my stitch-off project, Feathered Goose - and it's on the very last seam of the final set!

Oh! This weekend for BOM time, I also got the backing stitched up and the binding made for Neptune's Gift. I don't know when it will get a turn on the longarm, but these are ready to go when it does.

Speaking of Neptune's Gift, that one will be finished after one more weekend of attention on it, so I'll need the next BOM prepped. The kit I'd purchased last year (or was it 2020?) has been sitting out in the "quilt parlor" for several months, and I needed to get that room cleaned up for company coming soon. So I finished washing/ironing the fabrics for The Road Home.

After some 13 or 14 hours of careful cutting, it is all kitted into 9 bags, which I estimate will take 13 months of BOM work to produce the final top. Luckily, I hadn't purchased backing for it, because the full-BOM kit came with ridiculously generous yardage (as in 3/8 - 7/8 extra yard for every single fabric in the pattern). So I'll be making a patchwork backing of some sort to use those up.

All in all, it was a phenomenal BOM week here!

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BOMs Away - Neptune's Gift

                  

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Such a little photo for so many hours of work! 

I got all the 40 flying geese units finished up for the Month 11 and Month 12 borders of my Neptune's Gift BOM:

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BOMs Away - Hijacked

                  

Welcome to the Link-up for BOMs Away Mondays!

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Well, I started out sewing more birds together, since it's a week for the Love Birds project in BOM time, but my brain just couldn't dis-engage from my priority quilt of the week.

I only needed to do the last 1/3 of the outer-edge fill work to finish up the quilting on my monster super-king-sized Dinner Plate Dahlia!  

So I did that, instead, and now this baby is ALL QUILTED! (hand-guided)

And off the frame! (For GOOD!)

And now she's trimmed and ready for binding work.

But when I opened my binding drawer and found no Dinner Plate Dahlia binding waiting for its task, I remembered I had run out of the fabric I knew I'd want to use for that - but never remembered to shop for more.

After auditioning other left-overs from this project, and coordinators from my stash, I knew that I wasn't going to be happy in the end with anything but what I'd originally wanted, unless that fabric is now unobtainable.

It isn't.  :)   I found a yard of it on Etsy just now, so I'll cool my jets here, and work on other projects while I wait for delivery. It'll be soooo satisfying to bind this baby and wash it and put it on our bed!!

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Did you work on a BOM type project this week? 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 - Neptune's Gift & Feathered Goose

                 

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)

It was the weekend for working on Neptune's Gift - I had hoped my Month 12 packet would get here in time for me to combine that work with my Month 11 work, since they're both the same thing. And it did, so I cut out all the pieces for the 40 remaining flying geese units, and got about half way finished with them all.

While doing that, I finished off these units of my stitch-off project, Feathered Goose.  

I always love the look of a paper pieced unit trimmed up and sitting next to the messy untrimmed units!  There is only one unit set left to paper piece for that quilt, and then the units can all be sewn together. Getting excited to be at that stage.

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Did you work on a BOM type project this week? 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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