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

BOMs Away - Fall All Around & Kevin's Scrappy Mystery

Welcome to the link-up for BOMs Away Mondays!

Where we share what we're doing on a BOM or other interval project 

so they don't stall out in (or we can rescue them from) UFO-land!

(Linky at the bottom.)

Whee! This quilt gets more gorgeous with each step of progress! The fabrics have no metallic highlights, but they just glow in real life, and the interplay between the different colors is so very pretty inside that pretty burgundy sashing. Got the center all put together before the weekend hit:

I'll give the borders (with all those leaves) some finishing attention on Thursday/Friday. Looking forward to that, for sure.

So. . .since "Fall All Around" is coming off the BOM rotation (as well as Star Crazy), I fell victim to the draw of Kevin's "Sapphire Stars" scrappy mystery. 

  

Link to Intro

Link to Clue 1

Link to Clue 2

He just put the second clue out, which I saw right after we had a sorting party here to get the latest mountain of scraps tucked into the appropriate color bins. So, there I was, having just stated that I definitely had to start doing something with the blue scraps, because that bin was bursting-full, and admiring several bloggers' scrappy finishes this week, when I happened on the mystery. Quite serendipitous, actually.

So yesterday I cut and cut and cut individual pieces from my scraps, and today I sewed the 48 blue squares for Clue 1 (yielding me 96 bonus HSTs), as well as the 48 short 3-strip sets and the 22 long 6-strip sets for Clue 2:

(That green is the back of a quilt that I have to attach binding to tomorrow before sewing up another backing for the next longarm session.)

I will have no trouble finding everything I'll need from my scrap bins (these hold everything that ranges from crumb size to about 1/8 yd), except the little yardage of the gray that he lists as the only constant fabric. That'll be easy to get from my regular stash, so no purchases necessary at all for this one. Completely love that!

Have you accomplished any BOM work?  :)  

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. She's got a huge PCS move looming over her head, so we're going to take her as we get her for the next little while!

Best wishes for a successful move and no serious damage or loss to belongings!

When A Quilt Wants to Dance ~Flimsy Alert!~

Whoop! Whoop!  

My "Set Sail" quilt top is Aliiiive!

If you were a quilt center that had been hanging sadly in your maker's Flimsy Closet for just one week shy of four years (even though you were one of her very favorites). . .

Aug 7, 2013, before this closet came
to hold 37 flimsies by the time that I bought
my longarm machine 2 months ago!

. . . you would dance around, too, when she got down to business and added all your borders! 

152 flying geese and several long border pieces later, it's a finished king size flimsy! 

We hurried to catch a photo before today's thunderstorm moved in. Light was fading fast and I felt a drop when this baby finally said, "Whew. I'm finished now."  (dancing, that is)

The pattern is in the Fall/Winter 2008 "Quilt Sampler" magazine, and the designer is Sandy Perdue. I purchased a personalized kit from Quilting By the Bay back in 2010 with enough extra yardage to convert it to the king size. (The original pattern doesn't have the geese along the sides.)

I'll be doing some custom quilting on this, and while I'd love nothing more than to load it onto my still-new longarm and get right to work on that, I need to practice my skill level up just a bit more to be entirely happy with the result. So I have two other tops that will go through first. But I am determined to have this on my bed before August ends!

P.S. This kind of work has gone on solidly for the last several months without any recording, so hopefully I have my act back together enough to put more than BOM work on my blog again. It's been a bit isolating to not share things regularly, but it's been all I could do to recover from that super pernicious Lupus flare that hit all through Jan/Feb/Mar and then not only get back up to my normal speed in Taekwondo, but to start ramping things up several notches as Marissa and I enter the final approach to earning our blackbelts. Exciting times!

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Sarah's Whoop Whoop Fridays