BOMs Away - From the Heart (and April OMG)

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 finished block 5 for "From the Heart" - 

Block 6 was already prepped and ready to go, but I had the lightbox out for something else, so I traced out the last two applique blocks for this quilt.

 Normally I trace the pattern lightly with a pencil, but this project has a dark background that hides the pencil too much, so I'm using a non-gel pen on these. (Gel ink smears around too much as you're working these up.) Tracing onto a black background gets quite "inventive", but luckily that's a super rare occurence for me.  :)

I do the backbasting technique for 99.9% of my hand applique. Most of the remaining .1% is when I use Kay Buckley's Perfect Circles for making small or medium berries. 

You can use this method for overlapping pieces, tiny pieces, and even intertwining pieces when you're practiced at it.

 The only non-sewing prepwork you do is to trace the picture onto the back of the background fabric. That's it. (No templates to make! No glue to use! No glue to wash out later or to turn brown if you leave your project sitting for three years. . .  I really love this method.) 

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Can you believe it's April?! This is my last full month of Life as we currenly know it, with big changes coming to all of us as Heather graduates next month and then they move away. 

Do you have big changes this spring, too?

I'm adding my April OMG here, because diving into taxes today is going to ruin my brain for remembering to make another post tomorrow. (We will owe this year, thus the late reckoning - anybody who had wanted to fraudulently claim our tax return this year was more than welcome to it). 

Scott's choice of mini quilts got shoved to the wayside when we started remodeling the master suite last year. So this month, I want to get those back on the active slate. My one must-do goal is to finish his Raven's Throne, which was left in this state:

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How are things on your end? Did you do any BOM work this week?

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.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

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BOMs Away - The Variety Show

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.)

Hi there! I worked on three different BOMs this week:

Well, this one is a Technique of the Month rather than a Block, but Heather's Dahlia is a finished top - 

And I did the bits of embroidery on my Sew Spooky quilt, then got it loaded and am playing around with detailed custom work (this is my #8 UFO for the APQ challenge) - 

And I've put in a good start on my From the Heart block 5 - 

So, BOMs have been representing at all 3 of my work stations this week! Sewing machine, longarm, and TV sofa.

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How are things on your end? Did you do any BOM work this week?

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.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Whoop! Whoop! ~ Flimsy Alert! Heather's Graduation Dahlia OMG

I'm so excited to be able to share this Whoop! Whoop!

Heather's Dinner Plate Dahlia (the 2019 Niemeyer Technique-of-the-Month) was my March 2019 project for the Elm Street Quilts OMG challenge, but it's a super doozy to piece, and I'd only marked the work for books 1-3 as my goal.

Instead, as you see, I got all the work finished and have a completed quilt top! This baby took right at 100 hours to paper piece and assemble!!!!  <~~~ TGIFF celebration, definitely!

And it lies perfectly flat when it has enough room to do so and doesn't have to span a flooring edge - makes me a very happy quilter for longarming ease!

This finish point makes me incredibly happy, because now there is most likely plenty of time to have it completely finished for her graduation. I'm going to figure out how to get the caduceus, her school initials, and the year into the quilting for her, which I intend to be every bit as intricate as the Ruffled Roses quilting I did in January. I also want to play up the gold tones more with the quilting and threads somehow.

First, a break from this project, though. I'm going to do the bits of embroidery I'd forgotten to do, and then finish up the quilting on my Sew Spooky UFO (the March pull for the American Patchwork & Quilting UFO Challenge, #APQResolution) before I load this baby on the frame.  :)

~*~*~ Linking up at:

Whoop! Whoop! at Sarah's 
TGIFF Thank Goodness It's Finished Fridays at Kathy's
One Monthly Goal (OMG) at Elm Street Quilts