BOMs Away Monday - Flimsies Report!!

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We'd love to see the BOM you're working on lately.
This week's link-up is at the bottom of this post.

  

 

Yeehaw!!  Kelly's two Joseph Smith quilts are now full-fledged flimsies:
 

It's funny how doing something out of love for the other person changes your feelings about the work itself. This is totally not my style or fabric scheme, but I have really enjoyed working on these for more than the past year for her. They do have a fun heritage symbolism for each of the monthly block choices, which I'll write up when I've finished the quilting for one of them. 

Longer-term followers know that my cousin Kelly passed away a couple of years ago - far, far too young to do so, too! She and I were long-distance quilting buddies and had been working on a dual BOM game with each other wherein each of us chose a project and did a double set of each month's block. We kept one block and mailed the second to the other. At the end of the year, we would each have twin quilts of what the other also held, one of my choice, and one of hers. This project was her choice. But she died before we finished our game.

When I went back for her funeral, I rescued every WIP I could identify from her sewing room. She had everything nicely organized, so it was easy to find the blocks she had already done for these, the entire pattern set, and all the fabrics she'd bought for it. Most of those were already designated for certain blocks, but I did have to fill in her choices on some from the box full of additional reproduction FQs she had with this project. The fabrics are all reprints from the 1830s-1840s.  I didn't find yardage for the borders or backs, so I had to order those online last week. It was a little nerve-wracking to shop for borders without being able to see them in real life against the quilt centers. But honestly, to me the collective piece is pretty frenetic to start with, so it would have been hard to stick in that era and not work somehow. I think she would be pleased with the result - I made an effort to shop from her eyes rather than my own.

Now that I helped Scott clean the guns after making him happy with a family trip to target shoot zombies at the range, I'm going to get him to help me pin-baste the first of these tops so I can try to quilt it in time to ship to one of her family members for Christmas. It's a fair trade, eh?   ;D

So, what BOM work have you been able to get finished lately?

 

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 Any projects broken into weekly or monthly units are welcome in addition to true BOMs.   Share your eye candy and show off your progress since the last time you linked up! There are some wonderful monthly and weekly projects going on out there.

 

BOMs Away - Something New!

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 this post.

 

 

It's supposed to be a Kelly-BOM week, but the only piece of reproduction yardage I have will not work for the borders of her tops, and I'm waiting for the fabric order I put in to finish these quilt tops. I felt that was an acceptable purchase to make despite my fabric diet for the year. I *might* just be able to finish one of these in time to gift it to someone in her family at Christmas.

 

So in the meantime, I went into the Deep Storage and pulled a seasonal BOM that's been there since - are you ready??? - 2000!!

 

 

 

 

How could that happen? Well, thinking back, that's the year we started homeschooling, so I had two bright kids - 3rd and 1st grade - to coordinate all their academics, we were extremely active in competitive sports and concert piano music lessons (which is what prompted the homeschooling to start with), and we had horses. On top of that, Scott was deployed to Korea unaccompanied for a year, so all quilting activities flew right out the window. I did keep buying the BOM packets each month, but only the first one ever got done.

 

So I had a bootbox full of 11 unopened packets, 3 star blocks, one small portion of the holly swag on the top row, a baggie of fabric scraps from month 1, and a baggie of the ribbon piece from month 1. (I will wait until that row is fully pieced and then do the whole ribbon at once.)

 

 

 

 

Thanks to a 5am boinked-awake brain and the intentional Time Change Sleep In plans of the other family members, I got a good block of sewing time today. So I did months 2 AND 3 this morning.  :)

 

And I have this much of a quilt top so far. 

 

 

 

 

I have to say, this is the BEST written BOM pattern I have ever encountered. It is so easy to follow. Which is nice, because the duo of tops I've been finishing for Kelly on these First Sundays is the WORST written pattern I've had to decipher. Very cool concept and lots of super neat historical material coordinated with each month, but man was it time-consuming and confusing to figure out the cutting directions.

 

So, what BOM work have you been able to get finished lately?

 

 

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 Any projects broken into weekly or monthly units are welcome in addition to true BOMs.   Share your eye candy and show off your progress since the last time you linked up! There are some wonderful monthly and weekly projects going on out there.

November Goal Post

 Time for the magical progress-making guidance list for the new month!

 

[Don't forget, I over-pack mine on purpose with small identifiable steps, so this is not as overwhelming as it seems.]

 

UFOs -

 

• Koo Koo Puff - Gets first dibs on the finishing goal this time around. He needs all his topstitching and thread painting, then to be quilted (I think I want to trapunto him), and then he'll be mounted on his art frame. Good thing he's little!

• Kelly's 1930s - Finish the last of the hand quilting! Only about 1 square yard's worth of straight lines in the wide border.  I'm not going to kid myself into thinking I can also finish the scalloped binding by month's end, but maybe I can get a start on it. . .

• A Barbeque with the Squadron - Let's get the backing made and pin-baste this sucker so we can get another large UFO shot down by year's end.  :)

 

WIPs/NewFOs -

• 25th, Baby! - Try not to cry again. Aim for finishing 70 rings - it's almost time to work in those longer joining seams. Just think: So far you've finished enough for a double size quilt!

• Rainbow Jane - Figure out the new quilting for the triangles and put in the guidelines.

• NewFO - There is definitely one last quilting box somewhere that I haven't unpacked from the move. Really hoping it's just tucked somewhere behind stuff and not actually lost! But this is the second NETY that's come up missing, and I remember exactly where these were in the old house in Florida - on the same case, too. Sooooo - the work I REALLY wanted to do on That Bad Boy has to wait for yet another Veteran's Day.  Instead, I've dug out an untouched kit with roughly Thanksgiving colors. It will be fun to try out the French braid style.

 

 

 

BOMS -

• Kelly's Heritage - Finish assembling these two tops!
• Hello Moon  - Stay on schedule
• Ruffled Roses - Finish cornerstone 4. Attach all the border sections and applique the roses that overlap the seams.
• Open Slot - Choose one to pull into Selvages' vacated slot! Maybe Fall All Around or Garden Friends. . . or My Renaissance. . .

COMMUNITY SEWING -  Make a wheel-chair quilt kit's blocks.

PRIORITIES -

FMQ Station - Koo Koo Puff, then BBQ
Piecing Station - 25th, Baby!; after daily quota, go to wheel chair blocks, then French Braid
Hand Station - Kelly's 1930s, then Ruffled Roses