BOMs Away - Let's dig our way up out of this Rabbit Hole!

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 found my craft iron again! Although, I could swear in court it was not where I finally found it two days ago when I was searching for it three months ago to work on all those little leaves for Part 3 of "Down the Rabbit Hole". So now my BOM goal is to get this one caught up to Sarah Fielke's schedule by Halloween.

Today I managed to get right at 2/3 of those finicky little buggars prepped and stitched down:

All these leaves are reinforcing mightily that the freezer paper method is not my favorite applique process. I almost always highly prefer back-basting, but this is the approach that works best in this particular task, so I can move them all around a lot before machine stitching. 

I had to run to the grocery store for more freezer paper to start on these - stood in the aisle looking up at the shelf and said out loud, "Oh, cool!" when I saw the printing on the boxes:

What can I say? Little things make my day.

:D

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How are things going on your end? Did you work on your BOMs recently?

Kate is literally in the process of moving cross-country right now, 

so we're going to completely understand if the link doesn't go up on her end 

at Katie Mae Quilts.

Update on progress for the 17 in 2017 Challenge

I have not been consistent at all in blogging my 17 in 2017 UFO progress. I'm intending to get back on schedule with those monthly linkies, as it really helps me refrain from shoving less-favorite and non-priority projects back into long term storage.

At the beginning of the year, I'd listed 17 particular UFOs for attention this year - some intended to be finished completely, others just "required" to be moved along to the next significant stage. 

So far I've scored 9 projects off of the list, but only two were reported to the challenge:

#1 - "Tootsie & Rumples" - completely finished.  :)

#2 - "Scott's Air Force Retirement Quilt" - from part way quilted to complete finish

(it's huge!)

#3 - "You Must Be Croaking" - from partial blocks to full flimsy status:

  

#4 - "Stepping Stones" - from 8 units paper pieced to all 72 paper pieced:

#5 - "Frog Lily for Marissa" - borders all on:

I took this with me to Estes Park for my personal quilt retreat during Scott's
conference classes.

#6 - "Lori & Aliya" - all finished, and this fantastic girl needs a photo op!!

#7 - "Star Crazy" - all of the blocks are made now, here's the last set:

#8 - "Set Sail" - all those geese made and border on:

(she's a king size!)

and last, but not least:

#9 - "Fall All Around" - full flimsy status, going on the longarm today!

(she's a queen size)

I'm planning on tackling the trapunto work for the Mermaid UFO next, but first I'm quilting up this last one, as I really, REALLY want to get the practice on lining things up before putting "Set Sail" on the longarm so I can get that quilt on my bed before August is finished.

Thank you to Meredithe and Anne for hosting this challenge!!

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Linking up at

Meredithe and Anne's 17 in 2017

Feelin' some early Fall All Around - ~Flimsy Alert!~

Whoopin' it up two weeks in a row!!  Whoop! Whoop!

Who knows why the purples are coming out far more blue than real.

Here it is, my 2011 Patchwork Party BOM project finished into a complete top!
Coming in big at 86 x 98 inches.

This BOM got put together in record time - I started working on it just this March.

You want to hear something funny? This quilt top and last week's quilt top were both designed by the same person! 

I bought that Set Sail kit inside the shop in Florida a good eight or nine years ago (Quilting by the Bay - which is a really great online store, but if you're ever in Panama City, you need to visit the shop, as it's really wonderful). I bought this Patchwork Party kit online in 2011 - the blocks in the center were each created and sold by different quilt shops online, and each shop presented a different finishing pattern. The one I chose happened to be put up by that same Florida shop. And now, after the blue one was worked on sporadically since 2013 and this one finally got pulled out of untouched-storage, they both came up to be finished tops together without any realization that they're both Sandy Perdue designs (with Sue Elliott on this one). 

I just find that highly entertaining.

Getting to this stage for this quilt scores me one of my 17 in 2017 projects, and the way our nights have been cooling off lately, it's going to fit the mood perfectly very, very soon. Good thing it's my next longarm quilt~! I have a great leaf panto that will be just the thing for this. I'm looking forward to using that great sashing to practice a way to square a quilt top up as you go with the floating approach to loading quilts.

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Linking up at 

Sarah's Whoop Whoop Fridays 

Meredithe and Anne's 17 in 2017