BOMs Away - Birds and Dots

           

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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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Hello!  This week I hit my Temperature Dots Quilt nice and heavy.  I basted all the dots I'd had cut out, and got them glue-basted onto their backgrounds (about 8 weeks' worth). Waiting to be stitched, though.

And I spent 3-1/2 hours today pulling temps and cutting out the past 7 weeks of dots . . .  So I got maybe a third of the work finished to catch this monthly project up to date. 

I have exactly 3 high-temps dots left of this color, and haven't had luck finding any more of it to buy - so I sure hope we don't have more than 3 more 51-54 degree highs this year. 

I got another temperature color stitched down on the bird wings, which released two more rows to the TV station for paper removal and tail tuckings . . . 

. . . where I get "help" from Isabeau . . .  (Yeah - all those little pieces stick to her fur and track all over the place, but apparently my lap-side trash bag is the greatest place in the whole house to sit in.)

And there hasn't been much TV this week, so I've only worked through two sets so far. 29 more to go. . . 

I won't start sewing them together until I finish stitching all the wings down. Too lazy to change out the machine back and forth.  Heh!

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BOMs Away - Ollie's quilt and Some Birds

          

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)

Goodness, it has been a while! Thanks to Sandra poking her head in the door, I'm revving back up. 

First: Look at this amazing Wee One!!!!

I haven't done a single stitch of piecing, quilting, or hand work since making Oliver's photo quilt for Devon. It was nice this weekend to sit back down at one of the machines. 

I worked through the next three colors of bird wings, which yielded 9 row-packs to take upstairs for their next step (tail-tucking and paper-removing at evening TV times). 24 rows still have temps higher than the colors I've stitched down so far. 

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Have you worked on any BOM type projects recently? We'd love to see your progress!

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 

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BOMs Away - A side trip into the jungle for a ~ FINISH ~ report!

         

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 didn't do any BOM work this week. (again)   I wanted to finish up the baby photo op quilt that Devon asked me to make. 

She wanted a jungle theme to match her nursery, and green instead of white background. It so happened that I had the perfect fabric in my stash for that.  

It was super gratifying to find every single thing I needed for this in my stash and "scrap" bins. I even pulled those balloon colors from my Temperature Quilt stack!

Since this is not a quilt for normal kiddo use, I took the opportunity to use the bit of high-puff poly batting that has been lurking forever in my batting cupboard. I hate poly in quilts - it makes me sweat like crazy, even when it's thin and the temperature's very cold. Plus, it's not good to use it in baby/children's quilts, as it melts onto their skin in fire situations (and Dad is a firefighter!).  But this quilt is only going to be laid on once a month for a photo op.

I did use pin-basting quite a lot to control that high puff!

I was quite amazed that I didn't have a (big enough) green on hand that I liked for the backing. I mean, I have a huge bin of green yardage in my stash! The only one that was the right shade was strongly Christmas, so that was a no-go. I do have four large bins of fabric given to me last month by a person who knew she would not be quilting anymore. It includes five pieces of cotton chenille fabrics, and one of those was a pine green that played superbly with this. So I thought, what the heck? Let's see what happens if we use this.

It quilted just fine. I wondered if it would give me tensioning fits, but it didn't! I was able to whip along at my regular "scribble" speed to put all that leafy/curls fill. 

The chenille did make the machine's high-speed operation sound subtlely different - more thrumming-ish. Surprisingly, my husband even noticed that when he passed my workroom one time! 

It also makes the finished quilt, with that medium-dense fill and poly batting, feel like a bath mat! So I wouldn't use something like this on a quilt meant for bed use or snuggling. Although. . . it's nice and heavy feeling, and would work very nicely as a weighted quilt for a sensory person who likes those! (I would use cotton batting, though, so it flows better.)

I just cut single-fold binding strips from the backing overage, same as I would with minky on the binding. Cutting it 1-3/8 inch wide worked perfectly, and it wasn't hard to stitch the back side down. 

I made the changeable numbers by fusing black fabric onto black 80/20 batting. 

I printed out a font I liked in the size I wanted, glue-sticked the numbers onto the top of the fabric, and cut out around them (then popped off the paper). Worked like a charm. The intention is that the batting will grip the fabric in the sign so the numbers don't shift around for the photo, like a felt board. Of course, when Baby's moving around a lot later on, that could be tricky to capture. heh!  

Now we just need a baby! Any day now - perhaps even any hour!!!

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Have you worked on any BOM type projects recently? We'd love to see your progress!

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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