My Craziness Update

Last I checked in to chat, I had just said it was possible (maybe not probable or attainable, but POSSIBLE and DOABLE-if you really work at it) to complete 30 BOMS--working on one each day of the week.  Well, I technically, I still maintain that that is true.  However, how many of us really have the time to work on 1 BOM a day?  Oh and did I mention that there are BOW--blocks of the week--as well?  Now I must really be mad.  So here are the ones that I have currently decided that I might feasibly actually get finished starting with the ones started in 2019 that I was working on or planning on working on previously.
 From Fatcat Patterns:  Flakey Friends 2, Gnome Grown, Hen Party,  Penguin Cheer, Purr-tastic

 

Of all the FatCat Patterns, I believe this one is the one I have the most completed on (and it isn't the oldest pattern of the many that I own).  I have of the friends fused together waiting on an appropriate background.  I have 3 more I've traced and cut the pieces out --ready to be fused.  Now I F I could just get back to finishing the rest of them!

 I tried really hard to do both the Gnome Grown and Hen Party as the blocks arrived.  But I got myself bogged down in the lack of sufficient background fabric.  Not that I don't have plenty of fabric, I just didn't have anything I wanted to use for these two.  I finally got the chicken wire fabric I wanted for Hen Party--but never went back to it.  Shame on me.

 
From Adventurous Quilter:  Adventures in Science, African Advenutres, and  Australiana Adventures.

I'm not the Science nerd in my family, but I have a couple of grandsons that I do believe will be very involved with it in someway in their future. Plus, I really like the look of this quilt.  The first block, the microscope is already finished and it is now waiting on February to arrive for the next block to join it.

 

The first block was the vase with 4 of them to make.  That was my "assignment" for myself last Saturday and I'm pleased to say I completed all 4 of them.

 

This quilt is not a BOM, but one I started out helping to test stitch.  The grand children and I both have fallen in love with it so I've decided to try to finish up what I started with as my test stitching.  There were many of us that started this as just a test for Marianne Jeffrey, the designer.  But we have all decided to try to finish it as a full quilt I think.  I currently have one of the koala, kangaroo and bird finished--only 2 more of each of those to finish, then the other pieces of the "quilt puzzle".

And from Angie's Bit's n' Pieces Fairy Friends, Kitchen Sayings and Sue's Christmas Chores.

I have the first block, the Fairy House all done and ready to sit and wait for the remaining Fairy Friends to come visit the house.

 I have the first saying, My Kitchen, My Rules finished as of tonight.

Angie's sister site Applique Garden has a few I'm interested in and will at least collect the patterns for.  I don't know if I'll get around to doing them or not.

One I've been working on since August 2019 is Stitchin' Heaven's Celestial Stars.  I am so far behind on it, that it isn't funny.  But I am determined to keep these BOMs going with just a bit of work here and there on them to get them done.  After all, they weren't all created in their entirety in one day, why should I expect to just start one and continue on it until it is completed?

Of course, this doesn't include any of the sew-along(s) with Pat Sloan that I've either previously collected the blocks for or I'm currently collecting the blocks for.  Whether it is last year's BOW (I think) of Out of This World and Main Street (was it?) or  Our Neighborhood, or this year's Traffic Jam, Out West, or Childhood Games (or whatever else she may throw out there).  

I do like to try to continue to get better at my ability to piece quilts--not real crazy about sampler quilts, but if there is some theme to them that is workable, then I like to try to do them.  This is one reason I like doing Pat Sloan blocks-quilt ideas and have started with Patterns by Jen's 2020 Monthly Color Challenge BOM.

Of course of all the techniques in these different quilts, I do love to paper piece.  I won't say that I'm necessarily any better at it than I am at piecing or applique, but I do enjoy them all.  And there isn't anywhere I like much better than getting my paper piece ideas from than Fandom in Stitches.  And they have a brand new Quilt Along (QAL) beginning tomorrow that I'm definitely interested in.  Kingdom of Hearts QAL.  Now, it may be just like the Rankin Bass QAL, the many different Harry Potter based/themed QAL they have had, the Hocus Pocus, the Princesses, Lord of the Rings, etc, etc, etc that I seem to be really good at going to go get the blocks and save them but never seem to get around to making them.  But one day, when I have absolutely nothing else up my sleeve to do (hmmm I wonder when that will be), I will begin one of the MANY quilts that uses their wonderful patterns--or maybe I'll finally get around to finishing the super heroes and princess quilts I started for my grandchildren or maybe the Hogwarts quilt for my daughter, or the Incredibles quilt for the family.  Oh but those Works in Progress (WIP) as most quilters call them (I on the other hand renamed it out of a brain fart, CRS moment, to Projects in Progress-PIP( and those Unfinished objects, UFO's (I think I like how Jennifer of Sew Hooked thinks of them as they are still works in progress, not just unfinished) is a completely different story to deal with at a later time.

IF anyone happens to be reading these meanderings of mine, I'd love to find out what your plans for BOM's and which ones you'll be working on (who knows, maybe I'll join yet another one!).  Leave a comment below to let me know what you're doing!