BOMs Away - Two Flimsies!

 

BOMs Away - Heather & Pat's documentation panels and some Affairs of the Heart

                    

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Where we share what we're doing on a BOM type project
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I put my hustle on this weekend and scored TWO flimsies in my BOM projects!

Saturday I wrapped up Heather & Pat's love birds Temperature Quilt top:

It is 96.5 x 106 inches, and I have some fancy-pants quilting planned for it. There are 3 quilts ahead of it at my longarm, though.

Sunday I put the last borders onto my Neptune's Gift:

This is 86 inches square, and I have no idea when it will get a turn on the longarm. Hopefully not too long from now, because it's amazing. 

Interestingly, my stitch-off project, Feathered Goose, also wrapped up this weekend! In fact, there were exactly as many units left to stitch a seam on as I had rounds of sewing on those two BOM tops. Kinda fun, actually!  This goes onto my domestic machine priority list to put the top together when I sew during the work week. It was very much a Happy Dance weekend!

(Except, now I have to prep whatever will be my next stitch-off project - but, boy are there plenty untouched kits in the storage room to choose from . . . )

I've organized the next BOM that I'm going to pull into my rotation since two are now off my list. Here are my colors (selected from left-overs from my Rainbow Dear Jane BOM from years ago) for Cadence Court, by Sassafras Lane:

I had almost everything I need in my stash, but I do need to pick up a couple yards of assorted blacks to augment my background and binding yardage. 

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I have an announcement to make regarding BOMs Away Mondays. 

Subscription prices keep going up everywhere, including the one for having linky parties on your blog. After April, BOMs Away will no longer be held in this format. Instead, it is moving to a Facebook group! 

Kate and I will continue posting linky parties here each week for one more month, but you can also already access the new location:

BOMs Away! - Quilters' block-of-the-month motivation

The group is set up as a private group, meaning only members will see your posts there, and we will be screening requests to join the group so that spammers won't get in and drive us all nuts. One great thing about this move is that we can post progress any time we want, and you won't be left hanging if we've gone on vacation and forgot to set up an auto post with a linky party for you.

We hope to see you over there. I know I would not get a tenth the amount of BOM work done that I do without having this little "association" to post to. 

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BOMs Away - Heather & Pat's Love Birds

                   

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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 - Neptune's Gift & Feathered Goose

                 

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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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BOMs Away - All Caught Up :)

                

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Now, *that's* a great start of a new year - succeeding in catching up Neptune's Gift before the next BOM packet arrives! This is one gorgeous quilt emerging:

I admit, I am looking forward to working on a different BOM this coming week.  :)  Will have to pull out my Sage & Sea Glass box and get that BOM back up and running. . . 

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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

             

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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 - Neptune's Gift and More Birds

   

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The next packet arrived yesterday for Neptune's Gift, so I went to work on that:

Almost finished the Month 6 sewing.  I need to join the two halves, and it's all done.

Edit:

 > Boom! < 

16 arc portions became 8 larger arc units:

(More compass points to come in future months. . . )

Month 6 all finished. I'm really enjoying this BOM approach - it's very fun to add to the whole each time, versus making different blocks month to month.

I also stitched down another 4 colors of bird bodies:

I have right around 1/2 of them stitched now.

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