BOMs Away - Star Crazy is a Full-Fledged Flimsy!

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!

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Hi!  Check it out!!  I was able to double down this weekend, thanks to Scott taking on all the household/cooking tasks, and I got my Star Crazy BOM fully assembled!

Doesn't she love that snow backdrop? I thought all the quilt's white fabric would wash it out a lot today, but its brights make everything play perfectly in our snowland.

This is a Sue Garman pattern, and was the 2010 BOM for The Quilt Show. It is 82.5 inches square. This actually was the kit they sold for it, too, so I didn't make any fabric choices. I didn't start working on it until January 2015, and it has been periodically on and off my work table for four years.

Soooooo many borders!!!
When I started yesterday, the center portion was together
 with the first small HST round and two of the 6" star border sides were attached.
My back is rather grumbly after the 22 border seams
(and assembling the almost-200 HSTs into the outer small triangle borders)
that I sewed this weekend.

It's funny, because this has been a total Sue Garman month in my quilting world - completely unplanned. My Ruffled Roses has been coming along very nicely on the longarm. My lastest finish there was the green border. I'd originally planned to leave the small flanking borders alone, but I could see they needed something for that round to look its best and showcase the puff in the paisley/flower strip.

I'm really happy with the overall look of the moderately-open loop-de-loops. They flattened those thin strips perfectly and gave more definition to the puff of the center lane with its less dense quilting. It was a little frumpy before I did the loops alongside it. I may or may not do anything in the 1/2-inch blue strips - will figure that out last of all.

(And of course, I was working the last Nutcracker of Sue's "Classic Nutcrackers" for the first two or three weeks of the months, so every one of my work areas had her designs in it. Kinda fun. I miss her being with us.) I'm breaking from that project with a little Valentine stitching before I get back to the 12 nutcrackers to do their embroidery bits.

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How is your BOM work going right now?

Kate over at Katie Mae Quilts has joined me in hosting this meet-up, 

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BOMs Away - Star Crazy

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.)

I got the first three borders put on "Star Crazy." Although my brain knows how long it takes to apply borders, it still amazes me every time at how much clock it eats up!

6 more borders to to, two of which have to be assembled first. At least all the small stars and HSTs are already made!

Have you done any BOM work lately?

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BOMs Away - A Triple Hitter

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.)

I hope you're having a nice weekend - I'm kinda excited to have quite a bit of BOM work to share this week.

Today I pulled my "Star Crazy" box out for the first time since I'd finished the final blocks last July. This UFO is definitely an Oldie-But-Goodie - one of the more intense projects I have that I have to take long breaks from at times.

I was able to get in a good several hours worth of work:

The center is assembled and ready for the fancy-pants border work that will follow. I also got the first set of HST border strips assembled, and you can see here what the whole quilt will look like - 84 inch square quilt.

There is some *serious* assembly ahead of me, but I'm happy to be on the final stretch to this quilt reaching flimsy status!


My morning sewing time this month has been given over to my old "Listen with Your Eyes" UFO, and this week I finished the final set of checkerboards, the turquoise/green arcs:

Just about every evening I get a bit of applique time while I catch a show with Scott, and my second Nutcracker has all his pieces now - embroidery bits on each of these will all happen later. 

Presenting my block 2, Herr Drosselmeyer, for the Sue Garman "Classic Nutcrackers" quilt I started this year:

Have you done any BOM work lately?

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BOMS Away - Pushing for two finishes

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Do you ever start Block-of-the-Months and then not finish them? 

Or maybe you just like doing a lot of them?

This is where you can share what you're doing on a BOM or anything you work on at given intervals. 

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Lots of good BOM work this cycle:

Since I'd left the last baggies of my pieces out for Star Crazy, on Tuesday I finished up the rest of its blocks!  

WHOOP! WHOOP!!!! I am insanely happy for this quilt's blocks to All Be Made!!

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And today I finished the last two focus blocks for Fall All Around:

Palace Garden

Magnolia Court

as well as getting half the strip sets sewn together for doing the sashing and cornerstones:

Can't wait to get each of these quilt tops assembled!

**Next-day Edit**

I finished up the last of the blocks for Fall All Around.  :D

The last 14 leaves, 31 sashing blocks, and 20 checkerboard cornerstones: 

How 'bout it?  :)  Did you do any BOM work lately?

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BOMs Away - Closing in on Star Crazy

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It was a gorgeous day here today. Perfect for pulling everything out of the garage to sort through keepers and sellers and get the car back in there.  :)

Around that ginormous job, I got all of the month 10 work finished and about 2/3 of month 11 for Star Crazy:

I so completely am ready for this quilt's blocks to be FINISHED!!  heh!

Oh! And I'm so proud of my oldest daughter. Heather's been managing to keep moving forward with her Taekwondo work even while going through medical school. Yesterday she tested up to Bodan level. :D  I really don't think I could do that - she just amazes me.

Did you manage to get some BOM work done this past week or so?

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BOMs Away - Star Crazy & Fiesta Mexico

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Do you ever start Block-of-the-Months and then not finish them? 

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I had the best personal quilting retreat all this past week up in Estes Park.  :D

Gonna have to do that every year while Scott's getting his CMEs squared away.

Besides all the piecing I finished, I got this hand-applique block stitched up for Fiesta Mexico while sitting on the porch with this view:

And back at home today, I pushed through the piecing for month 9 of Star Crazy - nine of these compound star blocks:

Did you get any BOM quilting done?

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BOMs Away - Star Crazy

Welcome to the link-up for BOMs Away Mondays!

Do you ever start Block-of-the-Months and then not finish them? 

Or maybe you just like doing a lot of them?

This is where you can share what you're doing on a BOM or anything you work on at given intervals. 

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Hi there! How are your BOMs going? Today I took advantage of feeling like dealing with HST's, and I stitched up all the rest of them for my Star Crazy - something like 300 of them. 

Now I'm settling down for a nice movie session with Scott here at home while I pop the papers off. Keeps me from binge-eating too much popcorn. :) 

Oh - P.S. - We had Taekwondo testing yesterday. Scott and Marissa and I are now at the last step before Blackbelt, and Heather and Pat are Red Seniors. Lots of work put in, and hard to believe I've made it this far. I have vivid memories of being a white and yellow belt three years ago and just knowing I could never make it to this level. But. . . Whaddaya know! 

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How about you? Did you do any BOM work this week? I didn't. I was busy chilling out this Easter Saturday morning and enjoying a cute visit from our friendly neighborhood Easter bunny.

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and linking up from either end puts you on the party at both sides.

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BOMs Away - Star Crazy

Welcome to the link-up for BOMs Away Mondays!

Do you ever start Block-of-the-Months and then not finish them? 

Or maybe you just like doing a lot of them?

This is where you can share what you're doing on a BOM or anything you work on at given intervals. 

Show us what you accomplished in the past week or so!

(Linky at the bottom.)

What do you do when you're just really sick of a BOM on your list - it makes you weary just to think of it, because there's So. Much. Work. for each month?

You torture yourself by doing two months' worth in one weekend. . . !  My reasoning was that I could have a lot of sewing time this weekend, and this will make it go away faster. But I'm completely oversaturated with it at the moment.

16 stars, most of them compound! And all of them uniquely colored, so you can't mass-produce them.

Also got another stack of HST's for the Border Bag - that thing's getting pretty hefty by now!

This project will grow up to this quilt:

I really do love it, and I look forward to one day quilting it up ala Green Fairy. But man, does it get to me with the volume and sameness of the work.

I made all the HSTs yesterday. 166 is quite a bunch for one day. Thank goodness for the paper method! I just print the right size off for free from Quilting and Whatnot (make sure you're on Full Size, not sized to fit). Here's a batch of 24, zipping through the machine, and when I cut them apart, everything's perfectly sized.

Now I can put the box back in the cupboard and forget about this stressor until mid-April.  :)

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and linking up from either end puts you on the party at both sides.

:)

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BOMs Away - Seeing Stars

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.

Well, I had a fantastic BOM-sewing day since a pretty bad flare-up of my Achilles upstaged any ideas of going out and about hiking.

Got both the Month 5 and the Month 6 blocks sewn for "Star Crazy" - 6 blocks and another 48 HSTs for the border work.

As I was pressing the very last seam on the very last block, I saw that I had sewn in one of the little white blocks wrong-side-out. I allllmost just left it, thinking nobody'd ever see it, really. But I would always know it was there, and for some reason it was important to me to fix it. Four years ago I threw the ideal of perfection out the window to escape its crippling effect and actually achieve finishes. But I made myself the deal that I would always do my reasonable best. Since this quilt is not on a deadline, it felt wrong to me to knowingly leave a piece sewn in wrong just to avoid pulling out a few short seams. If it was already basted and ready to go for quilting, I'd call it reasonable, but it's still only in block-building mode. Didn't even take 10 minutes to fix it - glad I didn't squelch out on myself.  :)

And for some leader-ender action, I started this month's community service sewing, which is to assemble this block set into a flimsy. I got maybe half of the sashing work finished. (Wonder how long this is going to live on that part of the floor. . . )

AND - check it out! The "Be Attitudes" BOM top of Kelly's that I finished this past week and wrote up for Friday's TGIFF? - - - Blocking it made that border lay down perfectly flat! At least for a little while. It'll always have to be blocked when it's washed, and no telling how long it'll stay nice with use, but at least it's all spiffy for the gifting, and that makes me very happy. In the future, I'll always just remove the offending borders, trim them down to correct length, and sew them back on, because waves like that really bother me. Plus, the feather quilting would look so much prettier if it wasn't sucking in so much extra top fabric.  :)  

::MEASURE YOUR BORDERS WHEN YOU PUT THEM ON!!::

Cath is starting a new Design Board link-up, so I'll join her, as well.  :)  

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How about you? - Have you worked on any BOMs lately?

BOMs Away - Star Crazy

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.

Thank you very much to everyone who sent notes regarding my mother in law. She was very fortunate, and is making a really fabulous recovery from her stroke. Her face is no longer sagging, her speech sounds clear again, and she walks without too much difficulty with the aid of a walker to help her balance. We spent a few days at their home, helping Dad and installing several non-slip grips here and there for her. 

We're back at our own home now, and I enjoyed having some down time with my machine for a little BOM sewing. I did the Month 4 blocks:

Also stitched up the HSTs for Month 5 and got those cut out and de-papered while Devon and I watched "The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel." I enjoy those films.  :)

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How about you? Do you have any work on BOMs to share?