Kappy

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If a quilt is beautiful, I have no problem making the same as someone else.

keelybird57

I like BOMs! I've done them where it's from a kit, and more where you have a pattern but choose your own fabric. The kits I did were thru the mail. The odds of someone I know having the exact same quilt are slim!

Of course, it's fun to create and design a totally personal quilt. But it's also fun to share the experience and see what choices you fellow BOM-ers make with fabric, settings, borders, quilting, etc. And sometimes you just see a lovely quilt and want to make it --even if it's a kit!

sylvia77

I have done this pattern -out of darkness using black as the background and it came out just beautiful. I just got the pattern and used fabric of my choosing, maybe you can do the same?

cjones

I have done BOM where the fabric was provided, but since each of us put our together differently, they did not all look alike. In fact, it was educational to see how a different setting made each one very different.

And I have done BOM where we all make exactly the same blocks, but we did our own fabric choices. That was a big WOW for me. Sometimes the blocks didn't even look alike because maybe someone used very popping colors, or muted colors.

Both kinds of BOMs were extremely helpful to me, and ended up being beautiful quilts. The fabric provided quilts weren't always to my taste, but there was always someone in my family who wanted them.

kjym

I have a few BOM quilts but haven't worked on them yet.
I know they are BOM but I'm a year behind on a couple.
My Daughter and I looked at a Pickle quilt kit and it was $165. But when we started looking for the green fabric we needed 30+ different greens it was very hard and we almost have that much spent on our own fabric.
I guess it is sort of a toss up on to get a kit or BOM kit.
I have been given 4 Kits for gifts that I have to get busy on.
That's just my 2 cents what ever it's worth.
kjym Kathy

craftymatt2

There's a new one called, Wildflower Rhapsody that is just gorgeous, and it is a BOM, I thought about doing it but I was afraid I would get behind and not finish so I may just buy the pattern and go for it.

wildcatgrammy

I have ALWAYS avoided BOM kits for the very same reasons. But last year one of my favorite quilt shops offered a kit complete with fabrics. I found that in this instance it worked to my advantage, I didn't have to labor over selecting dozens (really) of fabrics, when I might only need and 3 in square of something. And beside that when left to my own selections I always choose pretty much the same colors. This forced me to make something outside of my color zone, and I liked it. Now don't get me wrong, I did individualize the blocks a bit, afterall I am a quilter and that's what we do. Good luck with yours. :thumbup:

snicktrain

I don't do well with choosing colors. Besides, it's going to my house. Their fabrics are usually pretty pricey tho.

auntjo

I've only just started to doing a Block of the Month type quilts, but I do them picking out of my own fabrics & trying not to have to buy too much outside of what I already have. Right now doing the Farmers Wife Sampler quilt on this board and having so much fun with it am wondering what I am going to do when we are actually done with it.

I have done enough mystery quilts to know that sometimes the strangest combination of colors or patterns can go together so well it's kind of amazing, tho it's not something that I would have planned on purpose.

I don't buy kits or pre-packaged anything. So even if it's the same pattern - it's a unique quilt..

Dolphyngyrl

As long as you made it its yours, You'll probably never see anyone elses in your life, why should you care