BOMs Away - Crunch Time

Welcome to the Link-Up for BOMs Away Mondays!

 

We'd love to see the BOM you're working on lately.

This week's link-up is at the bottom of the post.

 

Hey there! Bear with me over the next 4 weeks if I'm a little slow getting this linky up or not as social as I used to be. It's crunch time for the final draft of my thesis to be turned in, and I've got 4 chapters remaining to fix up.  This is this week's task:

 

 

 

These last chapters are in my "Throw Down" stage, where all research and analysis notes are pasted into documents that are organized by divisions of information. Meaning, with the chapter for this week, there are 55 pages of such info copy/pasted as I worked with the individual items (and there are thousands of them) into an organized Word file under appropriate Navigation Pane headings. But when you get to each heading, it's literally a pool of individual items/thoughts that need to be logically ordered and then massaged into coherent paragraphs. I expect this one will finalize around 9ooo words, something like 30 pages.

 

Sooooo - I was busy yesterday finishing the clean-up of footnote formats in last week's chapter, and the sum total of BOM work I got done was quilting the maze work on the dark half of THREE ENTIRE log cabin blocks in Kelly's quilt!  Woohoo!!  ;D 

 

 

 

But hey, something is better than nothing.

 

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Have you done any work on your BOMs recently? Hope my U.S. friends are enjoying their Labor Day weekend!

WIP - The Owl and the Pussycat for Baby English 1.0

I am so utterly exhausted. Thank goodness for the impetus of WIP Wednesdays and a timely tutorial, or I'd get nothing moved forward today, for sure. I'd go shovel last night's 4" of snow off the drive and then collapse with the next reading I need to do!  

But I'm being good and not giving in - I finished trimming my HSTs that I whipped up before the retreat so I could lay out Baby English 1.0. 

I'm excited to try out the web-chaining method that Linda at Flourishing Palms explains so clearly. Got my columns oh-so-carefully stacked, labeled, and lined up to go for tomorrow's half-hour of sewing.  :D

My Owl and the Pussycat book arrived while I was at the retreat. It's so fun how well the cover coordinates with the fabric. I just noticed that the colors of the characters are reversed between the two. I'll have to read the story and see which one is mixed up.  heh!

Oh! And the main WIP of the week - finishing the organization, printing, and copying of the handouts for my conference presentation next week!  Here are two more images from the U.S. war camps that I just love:

“Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar,” 1943, The Library of Congress American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/aamsp4.html

Ansel Adams, “Baton practice, Florence Kuwata, Manzanar Relocation Center,” call no. LOT 10479-1, no. 15 [P&P], “Adams, Ansel, 1942- Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs,” Library of Congress Prints and Photographs http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppprs.00135/

I'm off to shovel that snow now. . .   (yippee, let's burn those calories!)

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Linking up at

Lee's WIP

Esther's WOW

WIP - Finally!

I have been going NUTS because all kinds of things exploded at me this week that required attention before I could trim up this baby and attach its binding. Finally, it's happening today.  :D

One of those things is getting ready for a history paper presentation at a professional conference in Omaha. I'm big-time freaked out about this, but my subject is a lot of fun to work with, even though its setting is rather somber: Japanese-American Endurance: Recreational Choices in the Unites States World War II Internment Camps. 

How adorable is this shot?!

Photograph by Tom Parker, November 17, 1942, original notation: " Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. If he's a boy in America he plays marbles, as these lads of Japanese parentage are doing at the Rohwer Relocation Center."  Accessed March 5, 2008 from "Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1947," The National Archives ARC Gallery http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/ (ARC number 538906).

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Linking up at

Pat's Show and Tell

Lee's WIP

Quiltsy WIP

Esther's WOW

A Blessed Finish and Now I Must Sleep for 18 Hours

Finally, finally, FINALLY this term is over. I loved this professor, and I learned a lot about an important topic that had been a huge hole in my knowledge, considering I'm working on a history master's degree. Several superb classmates provided excellent discussions. But [Holy Smokes!!] - I do *detest* all things political, be they old or new. And so I don't know what got into me when I actually registered for "U.S. Constitutional History."

This term was like grinding sand paper on my teeth almost the whole way through, and that's without the added trial of two serious family crises and the crazy, crazy calendar wrangling of four separate spring breaks in the household. Do you know how torturous it is to read Supreme Court opinions?

And so, even though it has NOTHING to do with quilting, I am celebrating a most welcome FINISH - all 17 pages. This one is not getting bound.  ;D