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Sunday, January 4, 2015

BOMs Away - Kelly's Strolling & Grand Illusion

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.

I got a little quilting in on Kelly's "Strolling the Block" for this week's BOM work. I just did the maroon stop border and 3 of the sashings. This is the first time I've done any orange peel work, and it shows. They'll get better - that's why I started in a weird place. :)

Also, during the week I put in a little time on my Grand Illusion mystery. I got all the pinks attached for Clue 2, then was sick of those for the week, so I sewed all the Clue 3 green strips into pairings with the blacks and whites. Hopefully next week I'll get all the black triangles attached and the units finished for Clue 2.

And just for some eye candy. :D Isabeau has been following me all around the past couple of days, even curling up in the second sink while I wash my face. She's just so adorable with her ultra-long winter coat!

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Have you started back into your normal routines yet now that we're a few days into the new year? Have you done any work on your BOMs?

Friday, January 2, 2015

Finish Report -"I Stole the Baby!!"

I still have to blog my last two finishes of 2014. Today I'm sharing this fun little whimsy that I put together for a Christmas present for my husband. He likes having minis to pin on his wall at the clinic, and patients enjoy looking at them.

This was made completely from my scrap bin! That was a fun challenge, and makes it perfect for the next Scraptastic Tuesday. It would be 14" square if it were one whole.

My daughter, Heather, drew out the brownie for me. I used fusible web to iron all the pieces together and then onto a scrap of black batting. I didn't quilt him at all, as it's strictly a wall hanging. The brownie is Franjeen from the movie, "Willow," and this is the quilter's version of one of his iconic lines,

"I stole the baby!!"

Thus the name. Not many people will get the joke, but our family does, and it's a fun whimsy even if you don't have a clue about the reference.

Scott loves everything about this quilt. In fact, he just came in here calling out "Where's my quilt?! Where'd it go??!" (it was on his Man Cave desk waiting to go to work with him). and he relaxed visibly when I said I'd just taped it to the wall across from the window to get a shot of it. LOL ;D

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Linking up at:

Scraptastic Tuesday

Can I get a Whoop! Whoop!

Link-a-Finish Friday

TGIFF is at Quokka Quilts this week
(main site here)

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Finish Along - Quarter 1 Goal post

I really value the link-ups in BlogLand that help me keep on track with finishing my quilts, and the 2015 quarterly Finish-Along is hosted by Adrianne over at "On the Windy Side." I'll be linking up over there when she opens it.

What I'd really like to accomplish for sure is to finish 4 quilts per quarter. This should not be a problem, as I have more tops than that hanging in my Flimsies Closet (something like 30!!) waiting for quilting! I hope for every other one of those to be from my original monster UFO list. My plan of attack is to focus most of the day's quilt work during Monday-Thursday on whatever occupies the Priority Finish spot. If I need sanity breaks from intense free-motion work, I'll work on piecing other UFOs or gifts as needed. Fridays and the occasional Saturday will be allowed for whatever floats my boat, including the washing and start-up of something from my crazy NETY storage each month. Sundays will still follow my BOM rotation. This is the most productive method for me that keeps finishes rolling through and fends off boredom since almost every project is large and/or complicated.

So here's my First Quarter planning log for finishes:

Quilt These Up For Sure:

1. Fireflies in the Meadow