Boms Away 11 Feb 13 - Ruffled Roses and a Design Wall

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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.

Today's breath of freshness comes from the Ruffled Roses project. Tell you what - these BOMs from The Quilt Show are a lot of work (this is the 2011 set)! Going to be super fantastic, though.

Got the first half of Month 2 finished. It's at 24" now. That's not a striped fabric - it's a 1/2" peg-board border sewn of all the colors in the quilt!

The second half of Month 2 involves sewing 112 patches to create a lattice-work round. The pieces are all cut out, ready to be prepped for paper piecing. Will sneak those in throughout the month while I'm protecting Koko's eatings from his voracious house-sister. (After I trace out next week's McKenna Ryan pieces.)

And guess what?!  Scott sprayed the glue for me so I could put together a design wall. We just used styrofoam sheets from furniture packaging and some Pellon fusible fleece that's been around for about 5 years. Good to see that stuff become actively useful finally!

I'm using it more as an inspiration board than a design wall since its location is behind the sewing desks. Love having it up, though. For now I'm populating it with BOM pieces to keep me on track.

It started snowing today, and while I was snapping some shots for this week's post, these cuties all came to scavenge in the birds' mess.

The closest little guy had to get even closer to check out what I was doing. Can't have it look too obvious, though. . . 

Love those bushy tails all puffed out for the cold!

Oh!!  I forgot the fun part! I got my Feb. Block Swap Adventure from Debbie in Tennessee. It's so gorgeous!

And she included a quarter-yard of 30's fabric to help jump-start a collection for a 30's quilt in the future. How sweet is that?!

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 What have you guys done on BOMs or interval projects lately? Weeklies are welcome along with regular projects that you’ve broken into monthly units, and –of course- 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.  

Finish Report. :D - Mini Valentines for My Peeps

I rarely indulge in minis since I have such a backlog of work and precious little sewing time. But Valentine's Day just needs minis, you know? Two girls away at college, a hubby with a glaring empty spot at his overhead desk cabinet where everyone else has drawings by their kids. . .  Well, it just demanded a frolic through the scrap bin!

So I whipped up a Valentine for my Honey and one for each of my three girls.

And I made one for a distant cousin who's on my Pay It Forward list. 

Way fun and easy to throw together. I even used doubled-up batting scraps for trapunto with the hearts. 

Love how they pop~!

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TGIFF * Link A Finish Friday at Richard's * Whoop! Whoop! *

Little Quilt Monday

WIP - Finally!

I have been going NUTS because all kinds of things exploded at me this week that required attention before I could trim up this baby and attach its binding. Finally, it's happening today.  :D

One of those things is getting ready for a history paper presentation at a professional conference in Omaha. I'm big-time freaked out about this, but my subject is a lot of fun to work with, even though its setting is rather somber: Japanese-American Endurance: Recreational Choices in the Unites States World War II Internment Camps. 

How adorable is this shot?!

Photograph by Tom Parker, November 17, 1942, original notation: " Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. If he's a boy in America he plays marbles, as these lads of Japanese parentage are doing at the Rohwer Relocation Center."  Accessed March 5, 2008 from "Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1947," The National Archives ARC Gallery http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/ (ARC number 538906).

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Linking up at

Pat's Show and Tell

Lee's WIP

Quiltsy WIP

Esther's WOW