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sewbizgirl 06-16-2017 12:02 PM


Originally Posted by Annaquilts (Post 7845199)
Love the idea of florals. Come to think of it, I saw your selections, one modern and one more traditional, right? I love that idea. I go crazy with all the shipping etc. plus I have lots of fabric but very little the right size.

I print my labels online and ship from home. Hate going to the post office! For the Boom swap you send in F8ths... or, half of a fat quarter. So it was easy to cut that size from my floral collection. Have no idea what the quilts will look like-- very scrappy! Hope they will be pretty.

Just Jan 06-16-2017 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by sewbizgirl (Post 7812483)
Block #1, "Woven Star":

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Pretty block AKA Sister's Choice. Its one of the extra blocks I made using batiks in the bee: (What a great display of blocks from everyone. They are all just beautiful!)
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givio 06-17-2017 06:49 AM

Well.... you could keep your tempting Boom chat to the Boom thread. I haven't signed up yet. I think the various floral swatches was a brilliant idea! I assumed everyone was cutting from the same fabric to send for the others to sew, as it seems like the pictures posted from past Booms are of sampler quilts where each block contain a piece of the same print. Which is a cute idea, but the sampler that is scrappy is just going to be a brilliant idea for a Boom. I haven't seen that yet. Well done for a creative idea there!

Just Jan, I like the contrast of color in your block. Such a different look it gave than the way our pattern was done with two prints where you have your one orange.

Annaquilts 06-17-2017 01:26 PM


Originally Posted by givio (Post 7845745)
Well.... you could keep your tempting Boom chat to the Boom thread. I haven't signed up yet. I think the various floral swatches was a brilliant idea! I assumed everyone was cutting from the same fabric to send for the others to sew, as it seems like the pictures posted from past Booms are of sampler quilts where each block contain a piece of the same print. Which is a cute idea, but the sampler that is scrappy is just going to be a brilliant idea for a Boom. I haven't seen that yet. Well done for a creative idea there!

Just Jan, I like the contrast of color in your block. Such a different look it gave than the way our pattern was done with two prints where you have your one orange.

LOL It is lots of fun. I am also tempted but I have so many other things going on and I really do not have the right fabric, or I think. I could use some more for other BOOM blocks I already have. So that does make it tempting.

sewbizgirl 06-18-2017 04:52 PM

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Yeah, you can always send in a mixture for the Boom swaps... or have more made for a previous swap so you can get a bigger quilt. Actually, I use 12 blocks for a charity lap throw, so only need 12 F8ths the same per quilt. Or... mix it up!

SORRY TO TEMPT! (Not. It's all part of my evil plan.)

Ok. Back to the Rest and Refreshing. I finally got this week's block done today-- yay! Our power was out for a couple of days after a thunderstorm that blew in with HUGE winds. There are big old trees laying uprooted everywhere. :( But today I can sew and get online again!

I kind of went rogue with the gold color in this one. I just loved that fabric and wanted to use it. Now I'll have to work it in somewhere else in the quilt.

Only 4 hours til our next block comes out! Made this one in the nick of time:

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sewbizgirl 06-18-2017 04:54 PM

Love your woven star/sister's choice in orange and greens, JustJan! I think a whole quilt of that block would look awesome... blocks in different colors.

lawsonmugs 06-19-2017 07:18 AM

Very pretty Sewbizgirl.

lawsonmugs 06-19-2017 09:05 AM

OK I think something is wrong with the directions or me. I over size cut my sq's should be 3 1/4" I make them 3 1/2" SO I am sure they are plenty big enough and I cut off the extra. That's fine with me, rather they be too big than too small. So this week we are using the the pinwheel method not the hst method. So I still overcut my squares to 3 1/2". Made one pinwheel and it comes out to 3 3/4 " So I can't cut that down to 4 1/2" What is going on??? Anyone else having troubles?

DottyD 06-19-2017 09:58 AM

Hi Mary,
Yes, you are quite correct - and this current block nine has been corrected twice. you need the SECOND corrected update. Check Pinwheel directions.
DottyD

sewbizgirl 06-19-2017 10:59 AM

Everybody should have got a correction in their email... Dotty, are you saying there is a second correction?


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